Harvard Celtic

03/15/2025

Very excited to see this book not only announced, but sporting a cover design! Congratulations, Natasha, on this gamechanging book

12/20/2024

The four Humanities departmental boards agreed last week on a revised version of the plans for reducing costs within the faculty. The new proposals seem to gather more support. The programmes that will have to disappear may be given a place within other programmes or new programmes.

05/09/2024

Excited to have this excellent book in print and in hand!

03/13/2024

10/04/2023

This week at Harvard Celtic Languages & Literatures

The 42nd Annual Harvard Celtic Colloquium
Fri - Sun, Oct 6, 7 and 8, 9:00am - 5:30pm

Barker Center 12 Quincy St. Room 110

keynote speaker
Dr. Gregory Darwin of Uppsala University

How to train your Näcken: Death, dismemberment, and the dissemination of some maritime fabulates

info https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/colloquium-program-schedule

10/04/2023

This Week at Harvard Celtic Languages & Literatures

The 19th John V. Kelleher Lecture

Thursday, October 5, 2023, 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Harvard Faculty Club

The 19th John V. Kelleher Lecture will be delivered by Helen Fulton, University of Bristol. 'Place and Emotion in Medieval Irish and Welsh Narrative'

https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/john-v-kelleher-lecture

10/04/2023

This Week at Harvard Celtic Languages & Literatures

Fionn Folklore Database Launch
Thursday, October 5, 2023 3:00-4:00.

With Professor Natasha Sumner, Harvard University

Warren House 201, Kates Room
https://fionnfolklore.org

09/30/2023

We were saddened to learn of the passing of Sister Margaret MacDonell this week. A native Gaelic speaker from Cape Breton, Sister Margaret was one of the first graduates of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard, earning her PhD here in 1969. She also held AM degrees from Harvard (1968) and Columbia (1961). She went on to chair the Department of Celtic Studies at St. Francis Xavier University and maintained a continued connection with Harvard during that time. We pay tribute to her important contribution to the study of Celtic languages and literatures with her influential book The Emigrant Experience: Songs of Highland Emigrants in North America, as well as her ongoing work on behalf of the Scottish Gaels in Nova Scotia and beyond. A friend to many of the most influential Gaelic scholars of the present and past centuries, she was also a generous supporter of Gaelic learners and early career scholars, and she will be dearly missed. Fois shìorraidh dha h-anam.

08/17/2023

Sharing the sense of loss felt throughout the world of Celtic studies with the passing of this wide-ranging scholar of Welsh literature and beloved mentor of the generation that succeeded him.

08/05/2023

Congratulations to Sam Puopolo, winner of this year’s CSANA Graduate Student Paper Prize for ‘The power of love: desire, homosociability, and power in Longes mac nUislenn'.

04/24/2023

Vivid Voices: Tomás Ó Máille and Sound Recording in the Modern Irish State. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 5 to 6pm https://celtic.fas.harvard.edu/event/deirdre-nic-charthaigh-trinity-college-dublin
Harvard University
Kates Room Warren House 201. 11 Prescott St.