Irish Texts Society

• A Moin Series of 63 volumes

• A Subsidiary Series of 21 publicotions

• Annuol Seminor in portnership with the Combined Deportments of Irish UCC

• Publicotion of the Locus Project's Historicol Dictionory of Goelic Plocenomes

• Discounts on ITS ond RIA publicotions for ITS members

• The Noel D'Connell ond Breond6n 0 Buochollo MemoriolLectures (London ond Dublin)

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MEMBERSHIP ARRANGEMENTSAND BENEFITS - SOCRAITHE AGUS

BUNTAISTi BALLRAioCHTAMembership subscriptions,which are now due for re-newal, are as follows: £15stg.; €23; $25 US. Therates for subscriptionswhich are paid by Banker'sOrder are: £9; €12; $15US. It is worth noting thatthe cost of membershipwhich is paid for byBanker's Order has notchanged since 1987,

We wish to remind mem-bers, and other readers ofthe Newsletter, of the ar-rangements concerningpurchase of ITS publica-tions and benefits of mem-bership - which were intro-duced seome years ago:

a) The two back volumerestriction which previ-ously applied has beenremoved and the dis-count for members onpurchases of all booksof the society is now33% (l/3fd).

b) The special prices(normally 50%) fornew main series publi-cations will be an-nounced each year andwill be available tomembers for a limitedperiod following publi-cation,

c) Arrangements are inplace with the RoyalIrish Academy(website www.ria.ie)whereby all oftheirpublications will beavailable to members

of the Irish Texts Soci-ety at the same prefer-ential prices which areavailable to their ownmembers i.e. 33%(l/3fd) discount on theretail price.

d) In addition, the RoyalIrish Academy's online

book shop is now fa-cilitating our societyfor online purchasing.Purchases hencefor-ward may be madeonline by members andnon-members of thesociety. As a memberyou are authorised topurchase at the dis-counted price. How-ever, it is necessary foryour membership to beup to date and you willbe required to use apassword "Texts" be-fore you make pur-chases online. This

password (Texts) willidentify you as a mem-ber of the Irish TextsSociety and your namewill then be verifiedagainst the list ofmembers for the yearon which the transac-tion takes place.

e) Members who do notuse the internet orcredit cards or who forany other reason wishto purchase books byapplying directly to theHonorary Treasurer asheretofore may con-tinue to do so.

t) These arrangementsare also available forLibrary Members;however, some adjust-ments will be agreedwith SubscriptionAgents, and LibraryCirculation Members.

We welcome any com-ments, suggestions or ob-servations you wish tomake in regard to thesearrangements by emailingour Honorary Treasurer.

In this issue:

Membership Matters

Development & Renewal

12th ITS/UCCSeminar etL 3

6 Bua(halia le(ture/ITS AGM 3

Events/New Pubhcaticns

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DEVELOPMENT AND RENEWAL - FORBAIRT 7 ATHNUACHAINT

Sa ghrianghraifthuas: Comhairlean Chumainn (Mi na Samhna201O)/ITS Council Meeting(November 2010): (In a seasamh,6 chle/Standing, from left) AntOllamh Gregory Toner, G AO'Mahony, An Or PadraiginRiggs, Frank Allan, GeoffreyKeating, An Or BemardO'Oonoghue, An tOllamh MaireHerbert, An Or Marc Caball, Mi-chael J Bums, Sean Hutton. (In asui chun tosaigh/seated, in fore-ground) An Or Brendan Bradshaw,An tOllamh Padraig 6 Riain.

The November meetingof the ITS Council sawsignificant changes in thecomposition ofthe ITSCouncil. Three membersof Council, with 100years of service to theITS between them, re-tired; and tributes werepaid to them at the Coun-cil meeting and at thepre-Seminar dinnerwhich followed, at whichpresentations were made

to each of the retiring mem-bers. The three were: Profes-sor Padraig 6 Riain, who be-came a member of Council in1976 and who served as Presi-dent of the Society between1992 and 2010; Dr Brendan

by the present HonoraryTreasurer, Michael J Bums.Each of the retiring membershas played a significant role inthe development of the Soci-ety. Features of this develop-ment include: the strengthen-ing of the fmances and proce-dures of the ITS; a publica-tions strategy aiming to pro-duce at least one Main Seriesvolume a year; a commitmentto keeping all ITS publica-tions in print; and the adoptionof a finely calibrated prici.ngstrategy. The Subsidiary Se-ries of publications (the brain-child ofDr Bradshaw, intro-duced in 1993) followed onhis advocacy of new introduc-tions to Main Series reprints,

Society has been progressedby a series of partnerships:with AIS on the storage anddistribution of books; withUCC around the annual Semi-nar; with the Irish LiterarySociety around the annualLondon Noel O'Connell Me-morial Lecture; with the RoyalIrish Academy around the saleof ITS publications.

Council has been concernedwith developing activities inthe Dublin region and withextending the geographical!institutional representation ofCouncil. The Dublin initiativehas been led by Dr Marc Ca-ball, and first results includethe events which took place inpartnership with the NationalLibrary ofIreland in March.

This synopsis gives some in-dication of a dynamic phase ofrenewal to which the retiringmembers have contributed andover which Professor 6 Riainhas presided so ably since1992.

At the November meeting ofCouncil Professor Maire Her-bert took over the Presidency

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Bradshaw, who became amember of Council in 1979and who filled the office ofHonorary General Editor be-tween 1984 and 1999; and GA O'Mahony, who became amember of Council in 1975and who was Honorary Treas-urer between 1977 and 1981,being succeeded in that year

and it was a small step fromthis to the annual Seminar,focusing on a specific MainSeries publication, or set ofpublications, which has todate (2011) given us elevenSS publications of Seminarproceedings.

In this period the work of the

of the Society - the firstwoman to hold that office.Two new elected memberswere present, Frank Allan andProfessor Gregory Toner; andthree new members were eo-opted to Council to fill vacan-cies: Professors Micheail MacCraith and Ruairi 6 hUiginn,and Dr Kevin Murray.

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12th ITSjUCC SEMINAR, BOOKLAUNCH, BOOKSTALL,PARTNERSHIPSjSEIMINEAR 2010, LAINSEAIL LEABHAR,

STALLA LEABHAR, COMHPHAIRTioCHT

The subject of the 12th annualITS/UCC seminar, which tookplace at UCC on 6 November2010, was 'EdmundHogan's OnomasticonGoedelicum '. Again,this seminar drew anexcellent attendance,leading to a change ofvenue at the last mo-

ment, to accom-modate the audi-ence. The semi-nar marked adeviation frompast practice in twoways. Firstly, the sub-ject was not an ITSMain Series volume;and secondly the ThirdInternational Confer-ence on the Early Me-dieval Toponymy ofIreland and Scotlandwas merged with theSeminar, to commemo-rate the centenary of thepublication of Fr Ho-gan's pioneering workand to consider aspectsof contemporary workon placename studies.

Grianghraif 6 Sheirninear 20 I01Photos from the 2010 Seminar:1.Direach thuas/Immediately

above: An Dr Padraigin Riggs,eagarth6ir SS21, foilseachan nuade chuid an ChumainnlDrPadraigln Riggs, editor ofSS21,the new ITS publicationlaunched at the Seminar recep-tion.

2.Ar aghaidh amach/Opposite-Cainteoiri/Speakers: Emma NicCarthaigh, Tornas G 6 Canann,D6nall Mac Giolla Easpaig.

3.Thuas ar dheis/Above right: KayMu.hr, an Dr John Carey agus antOllamh Padraig 6 Riain ag -failtiu an tseimineair/at the semi-nar reception.

4.Thios !Below: Stalla leabhar anChumainn agus Cisteoir Oinighan Chumainn i mbundiolaiochtalThe ITS bookstall -the Honorary Treasurer, MichaelJ Burns in charge.

However, the subject is one inwhich the Society has an in-terest, as the publisher of the

fascicles of theHistorical Dic-tionary of GaelicPlacenames pro-duced by the Lo-cus Project atUCC, and, of

r-"'l1~~a::l"'-"" course, Hogan's

Onomas-ticon wasone ofthe con-siderableachieve-ments -alongsideDin-neen's Dictionary inthe early years of thetwentieth century.

entations followed: KayMuhr on 'Northern Ire-land's Place-name pro-ject', Simon Taylor on'Placename Studies inScotland'

• Fiachra MacGabhannspoke on 'Mayo place-names in early sources'

• D6nall Mac Giolla Easpaigspoke on 'The Onomasti-

con and the Pla-cenames Branch'

•.~ .••;",..:L._~;;;;j;;=iIt is hoped thatthe proceedingswill, as usual, belaunched at the13th seminar inUCC this No-vember.

Seven speakers ad-dressed related aspectsof the subject:

• Emma Nic Cart-haigh (of the Locus pro-ject) spoke about the chal-lenges of updating theOnomasticon

• Tomas G 6 Canann trav-elled from Wisconsin,USA to speak on 'Hogan:editor and scholar'

• A number of regional pres-

BUNU LEACHTA I gCUIMHNE ARBHREANOAN 6 BUACHALLA

The death of Professor Bre-andan 6 Buachalla in May20 I0 deprived ITS of a distin-guished academic who hadbeen a member of Councilsince 1988. With his support,Council had already decided toestablish a Dublin lecture. InNovember 2010 ITS Councildecided to honour his memory

by naming this lecture TheBreandan 6 Buachalla Me-morial Lecture. The first an-nual lecture was given on 16March 2011 in the NationalLibrary of Ireland by Or JohnCarey, to a large audience andin the presence of members ofthe 6 Buachalla family

The proceedingsof the 2009 Seminar werelaunched by the publication'seditor, Or Padraigln Riggs(see p. 4) at a lunchtime re-ception, and the HonoraryTreasurer, Michael J Bums,ran the customary ITS book-stall.

ITS Elections & AGM

This is to give notice that theAGM of the Society will take

place in UCC, Cork on Friday, 4November 2011, at 5.00 p.m.

Elections of Officers and CouncilMembers will take place underthe new procedures in advanceof the AGM, and further details

will be published on the ITSWebsite at the beginning of

September.

Cumonn no ScrfbheonnnGaedhilge/lrish Texts Society

c/o The Royal Bank of Scotland plc49 Charing CrossAdmiralty ArchLondon SW 1A 2DX

Website: www.irishtextssociety.orgEmail 1,Hon.Treasurer@irishtextssociety.orgEmail2.Hon.Secretary@irishtextssociety.org

For orders of books, applications/queries re membership, contact theHonorary Treasurer; for other matterscontact the Honorary Secretary.

THE HONORARYTREASURER

REQUESTS THATMEMBERS WITH

E-MAIL ADDRESSESSUPPLY HIM WITHDETAILS OF THEIRE-MAIL ADDRESSAND INFORM HIM

PROMPTLY OF ANYCHANGES.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - DON DIALANN

The Inaugural ITS Breandan 6 Buachalla Memorial Lecture (Dublin)This annual lecture has been instituted by the Society to commemorate the contribution of the late

Professor 6 Buachalla to the ITS during his membership of Council between 1988 and 2010.The lecture will be delivered by Dr John Carey, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC, on the

subject of 'The Wanderings of the Battle of Moytirra'.This event will take place in the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, at 7.00 p.m. on

Wednesday, 16 March 2011.

The above event coincides with an exhibition, 'The Irish Texts Society', curated by Dr Marc Caball, UCDand ITS Council. This forms part of the NLI's Discovery programme and can be viewed throughout 2011

at 2-3 Kildare Street.

ITS Noel O'Connell Memorial Lecture (London)The 2011 Noel O'Connell Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor John Tuomey, M Arch, FRIAI,

RIBA, of UCD and O'Donnell and Tuomey Architects.The subject of his lecture will be "Irish Architecture"

This lecture is being organised in conjunction with the Irish Literary Society & will be hosted by the ILS.It will take place at the Hotel Hesperia, 2 Bridge Place, Victoria, London SW1 V 1QA

www.hesperia.com/hotels/Hesperia-London-Victoria/#on Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 7.30 p.m.

International Congress of Celtic StudiesThe XIV Congress will take place at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, on the 1-5 August

2011. For further details see: http://www.celticstudiescongress.org/

ITS/UCC Annual Seminar (Cork)The 13th Annual Seminar will focus on ITS Main Series volumes 26, 27 Csithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh /The Triumphs of Turlough. It will take place on Saturday 5 November 2011 at University College, Cork.Full details of the programme plus a downloadable application form will be posted on the ITS website,

and that of the Locus Project at University College, Cork, later in the year. The proceedings of previousseminars form volumes 10-14, 16-21 of the Society's Subsidiary Series.

NEW PUBLICATIONS / LEABHAIR NUA

Volume 64 Cath Cluana TarbhlThe Battle of Clontarf, edited by Meidhbhin Ni Urdail,2011 (ISBN 1 870 166647). FORTHCOMING An edition ofa Romantic prose tale, one ofthe most popular of those to have been transmitted in Irish eighteenth and nineteenth centurymanuscripts. Price: £38 stg., €42, US $56.50 (Members: £25 stg., €28, US$38)

Subsidiary Series 21 Tadhg osu o hUiginn: His Historical and Literary Context, edited byPadraigin Riggs, 2010 (ISBN 1 870166809). The twenty-first volume of the Subsidiary Se-ries contains the proceedings of the 11th Annual ITSIUCC Seminar which focused on vol-umes 22 and 23 of the Society's Main Series, The Bardic Poems of Tadhg osn o hUiginnlAbhFuil Aguinn dar chum Tadhg Dall 0 hlliginn, edited by Eleanor Knott. The broad rangeof issues addressed by the contributors to this seminar - Marc Caball, Eoin Mac Carthaigh,Wilson McLeod, Padraig 6 Machain, Michelle 0 Riordan and Katherine Simms - include:Tadhg Dall's political ideology; his creative personae; the status, role and milieu of the pro-fessional poet; Tadhg Dall as a transitional figure; influences on Eleanor Knott as editor.Additional material catalogued by Padraig A Breatnach in his New Introduction to Knott'shighly praised edition (ITS 1996) was considered in this reassessment. In addition to thetexts of the lectures, the volume contains a foreword, bibliography and general index. Price:£19 stg., €21, US $28.50 (Members £13 stg., €14, US $19)

Subsidiary Series 22 A Guide to Publications on Irish Placenames, prepared by DonnaThornton (assisted by Kevin Murray) FORTHCOMING This publication, a further productof the Locus project, contains some 3,000 entries concerning Irish placenames and has a fulland detailed index. It should be an invaluable tool for all those who work, or have an inter-est, in the areas of local history and onomastics, and will complement the ongoing HistoricalDictionary of Gaelic Placenames. Price: £19 stg., €21, US $28.50 (Members £13 stg., €14,US $19)

Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames /Focloir Stairiuil Aitatnmneacha na Gaeilge,Fascicle 4 (Names in C: Ceall Ghabhann to Clairine) I Fascul d (Ainmneacha i C: CeallGhabhann go Clairine), Editors I Eagarth6irf: Padraig 6 Riain, Diarmuid 6 Murchadha,Kevin Murray. The fourth fascicle of the Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames, pro-duced by the Locus Project in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC, will beavailable shortly. As in previous fascicles, this fascicle contains a reverse index of anglicisedforms of names, designed for easy consultation of the Dictionary. Price: £22 stg., €24, US$31.50 (Members £14 stg., €16, US $21)