ZCP 57 (2009/2010)

Volume 57 of Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie has been mailed to subscribers.  In addition to the regular book reviews, this issue includes 12 articles and notes in German and English:

• 'Glückwunschnote der Herausgeber an Karl Horst Schmidt zu seinem 80. Geburtstag' by the editors,
• 'The plant names in Marcellus' "De Medicamentis"' by Alderik H. Blom,
• 'Where have all the object pronouns gone? The growth of object agreement in earlier Celtic' by Joseph F. Eska,
• 'On "double-nasal" presents in Celtic and Indo-European and a new Irish sound law' by Benjamin W. Fortson IV,
• 'The provenance of the Book of Leinster' by Gearóid Mac Eoin,
• 'Bratonio Gratias: Bemerkungen zu festlandkeltischen Onomastik und Phraseologie', by Torsten Meissner,
• 'Das Hieronymuszeugnis und der Tod des Gallischen', by Torsten Meissner,
• 'Die irischen Weltannalen und Beda' by Jürgen Schmidt,
• 'Mit cen ,ohne' negierte Komplemente im Altirischen', by Karin Stüber,
• 'Altirisch arae ,Wagenlenker', aithesc , Antwort', keltische Präverbien auf *-i und die frühe Apokope von *-i', by Jürgen Uhlich,
• 'Luarth teulu: Ikonische Syntax und intendierte Mehrdeutigkeit in der altkymrischen Dichtung', by Stefan Zimmer, and
• 'Irish úaine, French oignon "onion"', by Stefan Zimmer.

Call for Papers -- Irish-Language Children's Literature Conference

The call for papers has just been announced for the First International Irish-Language Children's Literature conference, which will be held at St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 8-9 April 2011.  Paper proposals of 250 words on any aspect of Irish-language children's literature should be sent to the conference organizer, Dr. Ríona Nic Congáil, by 20 December 2010.  Further details can be found on the conference blog.

SCE Graduate Prizes

The executive committee of Societas Celtologica Europaea has just announced the winners of this year's prizes for graduate theses.  Congratulations go to Peter Holzmann who won the Preis für die beste MA-Arbeit in Keltologie for his UCC thesis on 'Poetic rhetoric of praise in medieval Ireland: an edition of the panegyric on Áed oll' and to Finnbarr Ua Cearnaigh who won the Preis für die beste Dissertation in Keltologie for his UCC dissertation on '"Amhail fuaim chogair bhig": teangeolas Shéamais Uí Scoireadh'.  Nominations for the 2010 thesis prizes are due to Karin Stüber by 1 March 2011.

Irish-Language Book Club -- Clubleabhar.com

Clubleabhar.com is an 'online book club [that] aims to encourage people in Ireland and abroad to read Irish language books'.  Registration for groups and individuals is free and can be completed on the Clubleabhar website.  The book for the month of September is Alan Titley's novel Gluaiseacht, and for October, it's Biddy Jenkinson's An t-Athair Pádraig Ó Duinnín -- Bleachtaire.  For more information on the club, visit the Clubleabhar website.

2010 Fanning Medal Lecture

The Irish Studies faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have named Michael Patrick Gillespie, Professor of English at Florida International University, the recipient of the 2010 Fanning Medal for Irish Studies. After the presentation, which will take place on October 14 at 7:30 pm in Guyon Auditorium, SIUC campus, Professor Gillespie will deliver the 2010 Fanning Medal Lecture.
The Fanning Medal itself is named in honor of Professor Emeritus Charles Fanning and recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of Irish Studies. Last year’s recipient was Irish-language poet Louis de Paor.

CMCS 59 (Summer 2010)

The most recent volume of the journal Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies (Number 59 Summer 2010) has been mailed to subscribers.  It includes five articles in addition to the usual book reviews:

• 'Mermaids, Leprechauns, and Fomorians: A Middle Irish Account of the Descendants of Cain' by Simon Rodway,
• 'Obscurities in Dúil Dromma Cetta: Insights into a Lost Exemplar and Form-Oriented Scribing' by Sharon Arbuthnot,
• 'Eschatological Justice in Scéla Laí Brátha' by Elizabeth Boyle,
• 'Ireland's Other Apostle: Cogitosus' St Brigit' by Dorothy Ann Bray, and
• 'Celtic Ecocriticism' by Barry J. Lewis.

Call for Papers -- CSANA 2011 at OSU

The call for papers for the 2011 meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, which will be held 19-22 May on the campus of The Ohio State University, has just been announced.  Proposals for twenty-minute papers on any aspect of Celtic Studies should be emailed to Dr. Michael Meckler by 1 February 2011.