Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

This volume includes “Knowledge and Vision in Early Welsh Gnomic Poetry,” by Maria Tymoczko; “‘What Stalked Through the Post Office?’: Pearse’s Cú Chulainn,” by Philip O’Leary; “VSO Languages and Welsh Configurationality,” by Richard Sproat; and other articles.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students and gained an international reputation.

This double volume includes “Retoiric and Composition in Geneamuin Chormaic,” by Hugh Fogarty; “Gendering the Vita Prima: An Examination of St. Brigid’s Role as ‘Mary of the Gael,’” by Diane Peters Auslander; and nineteen other articles.

This volume includes “Toward a Breton Musical Patrimony: Symbiosis and Synthesis of the Folkloric, the Classical, and the Impressionistic,” by Paul-André Beméchat; “Celts and Hyperboreans: Crossing Mythical Boundaries,” by Timothy Bridgman; “The Sea as an Emotional Landscape in Scottish Gaelic Song,” by Màiri Sìne Chaimbeul; and seven other articles.

This volume includes “Milesians and Alans in the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mythical Invasion of Ireland,” by Manuel Alberro; “The Breton Compositions of Jean Cras,” by Paul André Bempéchat; “The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?,” by Timothy Bridgman; and fifteen other articles.

In Volume 24: “The Celticity of Galicia and the Arrival of the Insular Celts,” by Manuel Alberro; “Reading Aislinge Óenguso as a Christian-Platonist Parable,” by Brenda Gray; and six other articles. In Volume 25: Keltoi, Galatai, Galli: Were They All One People?” by Timothy P. Bridgman; “On Verbal Nouns in Celtic Languages,” by Chao Li; and six other articles.

In Volume 26: Joseph F. Nagy, “Heroic Recycling in Celtic Tradition”; Marian J. Barber, “On the Celtic-American Fringe: Irish–Mexican Encounters in the Texas–Mexico Borderlands”; and eight other articles. In Volume 27: Richard Suggett, “Poets and Carpenters: Creating the Architecture of Happiness in Late-Medieval Wales”; and eight other articles.

In this volume: “The Influence of Nineteenth-Century Anthologies of Celtic Music in Redefining Celtic Nationalism,” by Graham Aubrey; “Breuddwyd Rhonabwy and Memoria,” by Matthieu Boyd; and twelve other articles.

This volume includes “Fabricating Celts: How Iron Age Iberians Became Indo-Europeanized during the Franco Regime,” by Aarón Alzola Romero and Eduardo Sánchez-Moreno; “Nations in Tune: The Influence of Irish Music on the Breton Musical Revival in the 1960s and 1970s,” by Yann Bévant; and fourteen other articles.

This volume contains articles on medieval Irish, Welsh, and Breton literature; post-1800 to modern poetry in Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic; the Irish Revival Movement; modern Irish and Welsh linguistics; and the 2010 Kelleher Lecture by Dr. M. K. Simms on the social expression of the literary model of the barefoot king in late medieval Ireland.

This volume features Huw Pryce’s 2011 J. V. Kelleher lecture, “Culture, Identity and the Medieval Revival in Victorian Wales,” which examines Victorian views of the past in Wales. It also considers linguistic shifts in several Celtic languages, and contains articles concerning the history, culture, and literatures of Ireland, Wales, and Cornwall.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 32 focuses on the culture and literature of medieval Ireland, as well as Scots Gaelic poetry, medieval Welsh genealogy, and twentieth century pan-Celtic nationalism. Irish literature essays consider a range of genre including place name lore, hagiography, and the epic Táin Bó Cuailnge.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 33 features Thomas Owen Clancy’s 2013 Kelleher Lecture discussing connections between Scottish saints’ names and cults and the onomastics of settlements and topographical features gathered for a digital atlas project. The volume also includes other essays on Celtic history, literature, and poetry.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 34 includes Ann Parry Owen’s 2014 John V. Kelleher Lecture, “‘An audacious man of beautiful words’: Ieuan Gethin (c.1390–c.1470).’ Additional articles in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the languages, medieval and modern, and literature of Ireland and Wales.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 35 includes Fergus Kelly’s 2015 John V. Kelleher Lecture “Whodunnit? Indirect Evidence in Early Irish Law.” Other papers concern medieval Welsh and Irish literary, poetical, and hagiographical material; modern Celtic languages; and the considerations of using digital resources for Celtic Studies.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 36 includes Jerry Hunter’s 2016 J. V. Kelleher Lecture “The Red Sword, the Sickle and the Author’s Revenge: Welsh Literature and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century.” Other papers offer a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies.

Volume 37 of the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies. It includes the 2017 J. V. Kelleher lecture delivered by Paul Russell, Professor of Celtic, University of Cambridge, entitled “‘Mistakes of All Kinds’: The Glossography of Medieval Irish Literary Texts.”

PHCC, 38 includes widely-ranging articles on medieval and modern literary and material culture, as well as language structure and formation, of the Celtic regions of Ireland, Wales, and Breton. Dr. Aled Jones of Bangor University delivered the special lecture, comparing modern astrophysics to the plasticity of time in medieval Celtic literature.

PHCC, 39 offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies and includes the Colloquium keynote given by Barbara Hillers on the literary use of Irish and international folklore in the Irish tale “Aislinge Meic Con Glinne” (“The Vision of Mac Con Glinne”). Other papers expand the scope as far as the early twentieth century.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40 features Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on Irish chronicles, Ruairí Ó hUiginn assessing the Irish genealogical corpus in its sociological context, Georgia Henley on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work in Norman Ireland and Wales, and other articles centered on Irish and Welsh.