http://www.celt.dias.ie/english/tionol/tionol07.html

Will anyone be at this? For me, there is "Emerging electronic research infrastructures for Irish lexicography"

Yum!


For history buffs: "Celts, Galatians and Gauls: the etymology of Greek Keltoi, Galatai and Latin Galli"

and "Cultural Contacts between Ireland, Britain and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Pre-Islamic Period, c. 460–650"

Language-wise: "The grammatical status of the ‘Autonomous Verb’ in Irish"

Breton Laws: "Cauldron imagery in a legal passage on judges (CIH iv 1307.38-1308.6)"

Druids: "Why compose on your back in the dark? Druidry or science?"

Research: "The newly-discovered Whitley Stokes collection in the Albertina University-Library in Leipzig"

or

"The vocabulary of the Welsh medical texts"


And it goes on. Dare ye contain yeirselves?

Sounds fascinating (the saorbhriathar bit anyway) but no, can't make it.

"Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Why compose on your back in the dark? Druidry or science?

It is well known that Irish poets composed lying in the dark. Bergin and other thought this was an ancient survival, probably divinatory or at least magical. And of course some will see it as evidence for a pagan poetic order, etc. They are mistaken. I offer a scientific explanation of the phenomenon."



Ba bhreá liom an míniú eolaíoch a chloisteáil!!1

Er..brn, I think you meant 'Brehon Laws' ? That topic alone would be worth attendance money - most enlightening for those who uncritically regard justice and the law as purely Romano-British concepts.

Seanfhear

I fail to see any connection between writing in the dark and practices of potential ill repute. As I figure it, writing in the dark would most definitely cut down on unwanted visual distraction which seems to plague a decent portion of humanity, particularly annoying when I'm telling someone something important and they comment on traffic. Shame to them for being so easy to sidetrack. If one writes in the dark then he/she can invision the world of their imaginings without such petty distractions. I think that is the all of it and there is no more.

Beir bua agus beannacht