Date: 27-29 August 2025

Venue: Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, Bonn University, Rabinstrasse 8.

Thursday, August 28

11.00-12.30 Room 5+6

• Mark David L. Gibbard (University of Toronto)
  Euhemerism and History in Mediaeval Irish Classical Adaptations 
• Ciaran Mcdonough (Aarhus University)
  Classical Allusions in the Poetry of Antoine Ó Raiftearaí 
• Raphael Sackmann (Philipps University of Marburg)
  Princess or Prince of The Amazons? – Questions of Transmission and Scribal Intervention in a 15th-Century Version of Ystoria Dared

Friday, August 29

09.00-10.30  Room 5+6

• Gregory Darwin (Uppsala University)
  Cairt chloidhimh, cá cairt is fearr?: a Gaelic perspective on “surrender and regrant”
•  Philip Mac a’ Ghoill (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
  Switching Sides: Religious identity and Christian teaching in Gaelic literature 1575–1625
• Feliks Levin (Aarhus University)
  Contemplating composite monarchy in Irish verse and historical writing in the 1580s-1630s