Irish Texts Society

Binn gotha na dtéad | The #harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry 🎵 Please join us online with the Irish Text Society @IrishTextsSoc for the 2025 Ó Buachalla Lecture to explore the early Irish harping tradition. 📅 Weds, 3 Dec at 6.30pm: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

The lecture, organised with the support of @NLIreland, will be delivered online. Register here nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

Our annual Ó Buachalla Lecture is coming up next Wednesday, 3rd December at 6.30 pm and will examine descriptions of harpers, harps and harp music in a number of bardic poems from the 13th to 17th centuries. irishtextssociety.org/obuachalla-lec…

Our speaker, Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh, School of Irish, @tcddublin, will show the importance of the harper at the Gaelic court, the symbolic significance of the harp, and the reception of harping performances.

Binn gotha na dtéad | The #harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry 🎵 Please join us online with the Irish Text Society @IrishTextsSoc for the 2025 Ó Buachalla Lecture to explore the early Irish harping tradition. 📅 Weds, 3 Dec at 6.30pm: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

@RIAdawson The proceedings (Subsidiary Series 36) look at Ó Cathasaigh's life and career as a Traveller, tin-smith, and bailiff. The stories are analysed and considered in a national and international context. Order your copy from your bookshop or online here: shop.ria.ie/products/irish…

Notwithstanding this, the volume remains in print in hardback for more than a few shillings 86 years later and is available from your local stockist of Irish books or online from @RIAdawson shop.ria.ie/collections/ir…

The Society has just launched the proceedings of our 25th Annual Seminar organised with @UCC which looked at Sgéalta Uí Chathasaigh, Mayo Stories Told by Thomas Casey, collected, edited and translated by Douglas Hyde (Vol. 36 Main Series 1939).

Copies of the text are available to buy online through @RIAdawson at shop.ria.ie/products/irish…

The Life of St Declan was published by the Society in 1914 and edited by Patrick Power. Power's long and eminent career is of considerable interest (dib.ie/biography/powe…) and a session by Pádraig Ó Cearbaill will consider his contribution to onomastics.

Our annual seminar organised with @UCC is coming up on 8 November and will look at the Life of St Declan of Ardmore. The full programme is available here irishtextssociety.org/seminar.html and you can register online uccshop.ie/shop/the-twent…

And remember if you are a member of @IrishTextsSoc, you receive a 30% discount on the Society's publications. You can take out a membership through the RIA bookshop shop.ria.ie/products/irish…

The Life of St Declan of Ardmore was edited by Patrick Power and published in 1914 with the Life of St Mochuda as Vol 16 in the Society's Main Series. You can order a copy online at shop.ria.ie/products/irish…

The 26th Annual ITS/UCC seminar will be held @UCC on Saturday, 8 November 2025. The subject of this year’s event will be The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore. Full programme here: ucc.ie/en/media/acade…