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Ogham in 3D launchedRead more...
The Ogham in 3D project website was launched by Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, on Wednesday 8th May at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4. The Ogham in 3D project, based in the School of Celtic Studies at DIAS,…
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Genre in Medieval Celtic LiteratureRead more...
The School of Celtic Studies is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a colloquium on genre in medieval Celtic literature on 27–28 September 2013, at 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland.The aim of this colloquium is to open up…
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Scholarship vacancies
The School of Celtic Studies is able to offer two additional scholarships this year.
A CV, including an outline of the research which the applicant proposes to undertake, should be sent to:
Ms Eibhlín Ní Dhonncha,
School Administrator,
School of Celtic Studies,
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,Call for papers: Tionól 2013Read more...
This year’s Tionól will take place at the School of Celtic Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, on 15 and 16 November. Papers will relate to any aspect of Celtic Studies, and will be 30 minutes in…
Summer School 2014Read more...The dates for the next Summer School in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies are 14–26 July, 2014.
Further information in due course.
Seminar: A mmo Choimdiu nélRead more...Professor Liam Breatnach is reading the poem A mmo Choimdiu nél at 5.00 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room of the School of Celtic Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4.
Seminar Series on Classical Irish VerseRead more...
Dr Gordon Ó Riain will begin a seminar series reading the poem Meisde mh’inmhe mh’fhad ó Shaidhbh at 5pm on Thursday, 31st January 2013 in the Seminar Room of the School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.This poem, attributed to Maol Eachlainn…
New lecture series: From Late Antiquity to Early ModernityRead more...
A new lecture series, titled “From Late Antiquity to Early Modernity: Towards a New History of Gaelic Literature, A.D. 250–1750”, given by Professor David Dumville of the University of Aberdeen, begins on February 18.
About us
The School of Celtic Studies was founded by government legislation in 1940. The Institute for Advanced Studies Act of that year set out the basis for the establishment of the two constituent schools of the DIAS: the School of Celtic Studies, and the School of Theoretical Physics. (A third school, Cosmic Physics, was added later.)
The functions and duties of the School of Celtic Studies were set out in the Act, and in the Establishment Order of the same year, as follows:
- the investigation, editing, and publication of extant manuscript material in the Irish language;
- the grammatical, lexicographical and philological study of Old, Middle, and Modern Irish;
- the phonetic investigation of existing Irish dialects and the recording of the living Irish speech;
- the collection and study of Irish place names;
- the study of Irish social history and of all branches of Irish history which require for their investigation a knowledge of the Irish language;
- the preparation and recommendation to the council for publication of works dealing with any of the subjects mentioned in any of the foregoing paragraphs of this sub-section and of other works calculated to promote a more general knowledge of the Celtic languages and of the literatures of those languages and of the cultural and social background of Celtic civilisation;
- the training of advanced students in the methods of research in any of the said subjects;
- the organisation of seminars, conferences, and lectures on the Celtic languages and on the literatures of those languages and, in particular, on matters of interest to students of the Irish language and of its literature;
- the provision of facilities for advanced study and research in Celtic studies for university professors and lecturers on leave of absence from their academic duties;
- the commissioning of competent scholars, whether associated or not associated with the Institute, to undertake, either with or without remuneration, the writing or the editing of works dealing with Celtic studies;
- the assistance of research in Celtic studies in other countries and the exchange with such countries of advanced students in those studies;
- such other functions and duties in relation to Celtic studies as may from time to time be decided on by the Governing Board of the School.
