🚨 Schedule, abstracts & registration for the @celticstudents.bsky.social annual conference in Trinity College Dublin this year. 🔗 linktr.ee/celticstuden...

Attention 2026 conference speakers! You should have an e-mail asking to confirm your personal info, presentation title, etc. Didn't see an e-mail? Check your spam—and if it isn't there, please reach out to celticstudents.conference@gmail.com ASAP. Go raibh míle maith agat!!

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Registration for the 2026 Celtic Students Conference is now live. This includes our conference dinner. Attendance at the dinner is limited to the first 40—so register ASAP! www.eventbrite.com/e/celtic-stu...

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

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Today’s the final day to submit your abstracts!

Association of Celtic Students@celticstudents.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The CFP for our 2026 conference is officially OPEN! We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.

Reminder: The deadline for our CFP is coming up on the 12th of December! Papers on any aspect of Celtic Studies in English or any Celtic language are welcome from current students and recent graduates. More information and the submission forms can be found here: linktr.ee/celticstuden...

Association of Celtic Students@celticstudents.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The CFP for our 2026 conference is officially OPEN! We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.

New Blogpost! In this blog post, Marieke Rotman shares how the platform CODECS is the perfect resource for Celtic students. She shows some of its basic (and very cool) features and how it can help you in your research and studies! celticstudents.blogspot.com/2025/10/code...

CODECS: The perfect resource for Celtic students

Imagine that you’re writing a paper on a medieval Celtic text, and you want to know what has already been published on that text. Or, you ar...

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The CFP for our 2026 conference is officially OPEN! We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.

A quick update: Please know that the deadline for our Call for Papers for the Proceedings of our 2025 Conference has been extended until 5 pm (UK) on 26 September. Submissions can be made through this Google Form: forms.gle/UYWK9Tz4biSh...

New blogpost! What Happens to ‘Potential’ New Welsh Speakers? “I want you to imagine something. You're sixteen years old and you've just finished your compulsory education having spent all of your school life learning Welsh. celticstudents.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...

What Happens to ‘Potential’ New Welsh Speakers?

I want you to imagine something. You're sixteen years old and you've just finished your compulsory education having spent all of your scho...

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Thank you for a fantastic conference at Aberystwyth University. We’re pleased to invite conference participants to submit written versions of their papers for consideration in the 2025 volume of conference proceedings—in English, or any of the Celtic languages.

Diolch yn fawr | Go raibh maith agaibh | Trugarez vras | Tapadh leibh | Meur ras | Gure mie eu! Thank you to everyone who attended and presented at our 2025 Conference in Prifysgol Aberystwyth. A special thanks and congratulations our conference chair, Gruff Davies, who lead such a wonderful event.

What an incredible time at this year's @celticstudents.bsky.social conference! Looking forward to seeing it come to Trinity next year. In the mean time, enjoy these photos from Aberystwyth, including an amazing sea view and an incredible gig from Welsh and Breton bands Sachasky and Plouz and Foen!

First academic conference done - two more to go 😬😬 Had a blast at #CelticStudentsConference2025 in #Aberystwyth. Really cool talks in #Cymraeg, #Gàidhlig, #Gaeilge and #Brezhoneg (and English, obvs). Better pull my finger out before #Dublin next year... 🍷🇮🇪 Diolch @celticstudents.bsky.social !

Back from another wonderful @celticstudents.bsky.social conference! As ever in awe of the wonderful people who put in so much work to make sure it runs smoothly. Lovely to see friends old and new, pick up ideas and projects, and visit Aber! It’s a hard life being an academic but someone’s got to…

Lá iontach inniu ag #CelticStudentsConference2025 in Aberystwyth. @celticstudents.bsky.social Join us tonight for a joint Breton-Welsh gig in Y Cwps! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Prof. Meredid Hopwood starting the @celticstudents.bsky.social conference with an inspired keynote lecture about: what is language? ✨ @aberuni.bsky.social

Excited for the @celticstudents.bsky.social conference tomorrow. Not excited about getting up at 5 am local time. 😅 #attendingremotely

Looking forward to hearing from all the amazing speakers at @celticstudents.bsky.social conference in Aberystwyth!

Reminder: bring your devices to use simultaneous interpretation during the #celticstudentsconference2025!

Association of Celtic Students@celticstudents.bsky.social · last yr.

Simultaneous interpretation will be available at our conference for all Celtic-language papers. Make sure to bring headphones and a phone/laptop with you to Aberystwyth to access the interpretation. Learn how interpretation on Zoom works here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's conference week! 🎉 We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to Aberystwyth, whether that is in-person or virtually.

GET INVOLVED! We will elect a new committee at the AGM at the end of the conference. This election is very important, as without students volunteering their time, the Association and the Celtic Students Conference would not exist. We really appreciate any contribution!

Anyone coming to #CelticStudentsConference2025 this week fancy seeing this at Y Cŵps/The Coopers Arms? Thursday 12th June 19.30 (£5/£4) @celticstudents.bsky.social #CelticStudies #Aberystwyth #Cymraeg #Breizh #Welsh #Breton #Celtic

🗣 Here is a word from our chair Stiofán Ó Briain! The week of the conference is here, and Stiofán will tell you everything you need to know! 👇 ✉️ If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to let us know at celtic.students.council@gmail.com or visit linktr.ee/celticstudents

The second keynote speaker of the #Celticstudentsconference2025 is Ann Parry Owen (CAWCS Prifysgol Cymru)! She will deliver the keynote lecture ‘Make Britain Great Again! Gruffudd ap Maredudd’s Plea to Owain Lawgoch ‘Yvain de Galles’ (c. 1372)’.

Simultaneous interpretation will be available at our conference for all Celtic-language papers. Make sure to bring headphones and a phone/laptop with you to Aberystwyth to access the interpretation. Learn how interpretation on Zoom works here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Cyfieithu | Interpretation

Cyfieithu | Interpretation Certain sessions will contain papers presented in a Celtic language. Simultaneous Interpretation to English will be provided for these papers so everyone can understand and...

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🚨 Tar ag obair linn! We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff to provide core teaching to the programme of Irish Cultural Heritage (0.75 FTE) and the Department of Early Irish (0.25 FTE). ☘️ Deadline: 18.06.2025 Gach eolas | All information: buff.ly/TYhcuXi

With support from the Irish Government's Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, we are pleased to announce a PhD Scholarship on the Irish Language to start in October 2025. cardiff.ac.uk/welsh/course... Application form: cymraeg@cardiff.ac.uk Closing date: 28 June 2025

Gyda chefnogaeth Adran Datblygu Gwledig a Chymunedol a'r Gaeltacht Llywodraeth Iwerddon, rydym yn falch o gyhoeddi Ysgoloriaeth PhD yn yr Iaith Wyddeleg i ddechrau ym mis Hydref 2025. Manylion llawn: cardiff.ac.uk/cy/welsh/cou... Ffurflen gais: cymraeg@caerdydd.ac.uk Dyddiad cau: 28 Mehefin 2025

Don't forget to register for our upcoming #Celticstudentsconference2025 ! Register now from this link: linktr.ee/celticstudents