Congratulations to Lefi Dafydd and Finn Longman, joint winners of the 2025 Clemoes Reading Prize.  Lefi won for his performance of Dafydd ap Gwilym’s ‘Yr Wylan‘  in Medieval Welsh, and  Finn won for their performance of the Medieval Irish poem ‘Feidhm is mó’. An honourable mention is given to Marko Trandafilovski for his historical pronunciation.

This week’s episode of Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time focuses on an ASNC topic, the Battle of Clontarf fought outside Dublin in 1014. Discussing the context, circumstances and impact of the battle are Seán Duffy, Trinity College Dublin, Alex Woolf, University of St Andrews and ASNC’s Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. You can listen to the programme […]

The following new ASNC publications are now available to purchase online: 2025 ASNC Guides, Texts, and Studies vol. 7: Rebecca Shercliff, Grammar for Medieval Languages An Introduction. 76pp. ISBN 9781909106390. £10.00 plus p&p. 2024 E.C. Quiggin Lecture vol. 25: Kristen Carella, Northumbrian Law before the Vikings. 47pp. ISBN 978-1-909106-38-3. £7.00 plus p&p. 2024 H.M. Chadwick […]