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Congratulations: Dr Ben Guy awarded an AHRC Standard Grant for project on early Welsh charters   We are delighted to announce that Dr Ben Guy, Assistant Professor of Celtic in the department, has been awarded an AHRC Standard Grant of just over £900,000 for a three-year collaborative project called ‘Pushing the Boundaries of Early Medieval Wales: […]

Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou has been awarded this year’s Johann-Kaspar-Zeuß-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies. Her thesis is entitled ‘Compilation and Creativity in Medieval Fíanaigecht: A Case-Study of ‘Three Men and the Dog of Irúath”. Her doctoral work was carried out in the Department under the supervision of Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. Congratulations Nina!

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.