The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in professional academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by a team of students in the department, grown in size, and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium is the only conference in the field of Celtic Studies to be wholly organized and run by graduate students. Since its inception, established and internationally-renowned scholars in Celtic as well as graduate students, junior academics, and unaffiliated scholars have been drawn to this dynamic setting, presenting papers on ancient, medieval, and modern topics in the many disciplines relating to Celtic Studies; including literature, linguistics, art, archeology, government, economics, music, and history.

Papers given at the Colloquium may be submitted for review to the organizers of the conference, who become the editors for those papers selected for publication in the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Only papers presented at the annual conference are considered for publication.

Harvard University Press is proud to announce that we will distribute the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. Two new issues are available this Fall: Volume 18/19 (1998 and 1999) and Volume 20/21 (2000 and 2001). Back issues are also available.

This volume includes “Fabricating Celts: How Iron Age Iberians Became Indo-Europeanized during the Franco Regime,” by Aarón Alzola Romero and Eduardo Sánchez-Moreno; “Nations in Tune: The Influence of Irish Music on the Breton Musical Revival in the 1960s and 1970s,” by Yann Bévant; “Ethnicity, Geography, and the Passage of Dominion in the Mabinogi and Brut y Brenhinedd,” by Christina Chance; “Rejecting Mother’s Blessing: The Absence of the Fairy in the Welsh Search for Identity,” by Adam Coward; “Gwalarn: An Attempt to Renew Breton Literature,” by Gwendal Denez and Erwan Hupel; “At the Crossroads: World War One and the Shifting Roles of Men and Women in Breton Ballad Song Practice,” by Natalie Anne Franz; “Apocryphal Sanctity in the Lives of Irish Saints,” by Máire Johnson; “An Dialog etre Arzur Roe d’an Bretounet ha Guynglaff and Its Connections with Arthurian Tradition,” by Herve Le Bihan; “A Walk on the Wild Side: Women, Men, and Madness,” by Edyta Lehmann; “The Early Establishment of Celtic Studies in North American Universities,” by Michael Linkletter; “‘In t-indellchró bodba fer talman’: A Reading of Cú Chulainn’s First Recension ríastrad,” by Elizabeth Moore; “Dream and Vision in Late-Medieval Scotland: The Epic Case of William Wallace,” by Kylie Murray; “‘Some of you will curse her’: Women’s Writing during the Irish-Language Revival,” by Riona Nic Congáil; “Dating Peredur: New Light on Old Problems,” by Natalia I. Petrovskaia; “‘From the shame you have done’: Comparing the Stories of Blodeuedd and Bláthnait,” by Sarah L. Pfannenschmidt; and “‘And there was a fourth son’: Narrative Variation in Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys,” by Kelly Ann Randell.