Irish Texts Society

Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge

The Twenty-Seventh Annual Irish Texts Society Seminar

7 November 2026
University College Cork

The Twenty-Seventh Annual ITS seminar jointly organised by the Irish Texts Society and the combined Departments of Irish, UCC, will be held in UCC on Saturday, 7 November 2026. The subject of this year’s event will be Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired edited by Elizabeth A. Gray, Irish Texts Society Main Series, vol. 52 (1982).

Programme

 Rachel Martin: ‘Beyond Keating: Perceptions of the Battle of Mag Tuired in the Seventeenth Century’

 Elizabeth Gray: ‘Reading Cath Maige Tuired: Perspectives’

 John Carey: ‘Cath Maige Tuired: The Question of Date’’.

 Caoimhín Ó Domhnaill: ‘Cath Maige Tuired: The Manuscript Witness’’.

 Greg Toner: ‘Knowledge, Skills and Narrative in Cath Maige Tuired’.’.

 

 

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Proceedings

The proceedings of the ITS / UCC seminars are published in the Irish Texts Society's Subsidiary Series.

These volumes along with selected ITS volumes from the Main Series are available for purchase online or on the day of each seminar.