Author: Elaine Pereira Farrell

It will take place at the DIAS School of Celtic Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4. Dates: 14-15 November 2014 This year’s Statutory Public Lecture will be given by Prof Liam Breatnach on the topic: ‘The Church in the Laws of Early Mediaeval Ireland’. It will take place at theatre R, Arts Building, University College Dublin (UCD), Belfield, Dublin 4.…

Tomorrow, 26th September 2014, the book Authorities and Adaptations: The Reworking and Transmission of Textual Sources in Medieval Ireland edited by Elizabeth Boyle and Deborah Hayden will be launched at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS). Congratulations to the editors and all the contributors! Authorities and Adaptations investigates how texts were studied, copied and reworked…

The Cambridge University Press published a very wanted book. Dr Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht) wrote an excellent study about the practice of penance from late antiquity to the twelfth century. It evidences how important the concept of sin was in the middle ages and how the practice of penance developed from century to century and…

I wish, first of all, to congratulate the organisers and participants of the 9th Symposium of Irish Studies in Latin America (25-27 August 2014) for what seems to have been a great success. Speakers from Ireland, several different states of Brazil, Argentina and United States engaged in 6 lectures, 10 different panels, and 3 round-tables. Secondly, I…

Third Glenstal History Conference Conference Theme: Soldiers of Christ: The Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in Medieval Ireland Dates: 19-21 Sept 2014 Location: Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick Programme & Abstract

Originally posted on FMRSI: The Annual Monsignor Patrick J. Corish Lecture 2014 Monks, Labour and the “Holy Poor”: Early Christian Monasticism between Egypt and Syria Prof. Peter Brown, Princeton University Tuesday 7 October 2014 Renehan Hall, St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. 7.30pm All Welcome RSVP: Salvador.ryan@spcm.ie Download poster here.

Originally posted on ASNØC: 2014 Networks & Neighbours Symposium: preliminary program The 2014 N&N Symposium, which will take place in Curitiba, Brazil, is nearly upon us. We would therefore like to take this opportunity to release a preliminary version of the program. We are confident this won’t change much in next month, but please bear…

Originally posted on FMRSI: Closing date for proposals: May 1, 2014 34th Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 10, 11 and 12 October 2014 The Thompson Room (Room 110) Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street The Harvard Celtic Department cordially invites proposals for papers on topics which relate directly to Celtic studies (Celtic languages and literatures in any phase;…

This week two Research Assistants, Dr Keith Smith and Dr Elaine Pereira Farrell, officially started their activities in the second phase of the Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement and next week, Dr Annejulie Lafaye will join the team as a post-doctoral researcher. The Monastic Ireland is supported by the Irish Research Council (IRC) under the Advanced Research Project…