Celtic Myth - Upcoming Digital Events

Spirits of Dark and Lonely Water – a Zoom talk with John Clark
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
19th-century parents kept their children away from water with tales of Grindylow and Jenny Greenteeth, while a hooded figure terrified 1970s kids...
Feb 05th 2026

“Come away, O human child!”—a Zoom talk on Changeling Folklore with Simon Young
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Join Dr Simon Young as he explores the what, when, and how of changeling folklore.
Feb 20th 2026

Celtic Myth - Past Digital Events

The Mermaids of Staithes – a Zoom talk with Professor Sarah Peverley
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
The Mermaids of Staithes: Sea, Superstition, Egg-Broth and Loss in a Yorkshire Legend. An illustrated Zoom talk by Prof. Sarah Peverley.
Sep 10th 2025

Whale Tales: Myths, Folklore and Legends of Whales and Dolphins – with Professor Joanna Page
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
A Zoom talk by Professor Joanna Page (University of Cambridge) lectures us on some of the myths, folktales and legends surrounding whales and dolphins.
Jan 15th 2025

Medieval Mermaids – a Zoom talk with Professor Sarah Peverley
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This illustrated Zoom talk will explore the Medieval history of one of the most popular and long-lived of all the mythical creatures that humans have invented.
Jun 05th 2024

Queer as Folklore – a Zoom talk with Sacha Coward
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
To mark LGBT+ History Month, Sacha Coward takes us on an illustrated Zoom talk through the hidden queer history of myths and monsters.
Feb 08th 2024

Gog and Magog: the Giants in Guildhall – Zoom lecture with John Clark
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
John Clark investigates the significance of the two figures of giants, known as Gog and Magog, that stand in London's medieval Guildhall.
Jan 25th 2024

Mermaids across the Millennia – a Zoom talk with Professor Sarah Peverley
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This illustrated Zoom talk will explore one of the most popular and long-lived of all the mythical creatures that humans have invented.
Dec 08th 2023

Celtic Myths – The Spanking Goddess and Other Discarded Tales – Clare Murphy
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Stellar storyteller Clare Murphy exhumes the Celtic canon to bring the wild women who never made the cut, back into the light.
Sep 17th 2023

It Was Upon a Lammas Night: Summerisle and The Wicker Man – Zoom talk with Edward Parnell
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
An illustrated Zoom lecture on the real Scottish locations used in 'The Wicker Man' to create the geography of the fictional Summerisle.
Sep 14th 2023

The Green Children of Woolpit: fairies or lost children? – Zoom talk with John Clark
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This Zoom lecture investigates the story of the two ‘Green Children’ who appeared ‘as if out of the ground’ in a C12th Suffolk village.
Jul 25th 2023

Inventing the Green Man – a Zoom talk with Dr Alex Woodcock
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
In this illustrated Zoom talk Dr Alex Woodcock will explore one of the most familiar images from medieval art.
Jul 12th 2023

Gef the Talking Mongoose – a Zoom talk with Christopher Josiffe
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
"I am a ghost in the form of a mongoose, and I shall haunt you with weird noises..." Find out about the Isle of Man's most-famous spook in this Zoom talk with Christopher Josiffe.
Apr 28th 2023

Deirdriu of the Sorrows by Dr Mark Williams
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This final talk introduces one of the most famous heroines of Irish literature, whose story was turned into numerous plays
Feb 27th 2023

How Culhwch Won Olwen and tales of Arthur by Dr Mark Williams
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
We are sticking once more with the Arthurian world, and introducing one of the best medieval Welsh tales: the story of Culhwch and Olwen
Jan 23rd 2023

Myrddin – the Welsh Merlin by Dr Mark Williams
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
We look at some early Welsh poems (one spoken by Myrddin to his pet piglet)
Nov 28th 2022

Finn mac Cumaill / Finn mac Cool by Dr Mark Williams
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
We will be following their adventures and those of the Lord Finn tonight
Oct 09th 2022

Cú Chulainn by Dr Mark Williams
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This week we turn to the greatest of Irish heroes, who defends the entirely of Ulster single-handedly aged only seventeen
Sep 06th 2022

Taliesin by Dr Mark Williams
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
Taliesin is the super-poet of Welsh tradition, the shapeshifting bard who has been everywhere and in everything
Jul 12th 2022

The Hero Finn – Professor Ronald Hutton – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This talk is designed to ask when it originated, how it developed, and whether there was a real man behind it.
Jun 28th 2022

Branwen, daughter of Llyr by Dr Mark Williams
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This talk introduces the most tragic of Welsh heroines, whose story is found in the second of the Welsh Four Branches of the Mabinogi
May 23rd 2022

Merlin – Professor Ronald Hutton – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
You are invited this evening to explore the original sources of his legend, and see if we can understand where it began and how it developed
Apr 26th 2022

The God Lugh and the Morrigan – Professor Ronald Hutton – Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This talk is to discover what the actual evidence is of both and to see whether a closer relationship can be made with either in the process
Mar 29th 2022

Occult Nationalism and the Irish Revival – Dr Mark Williams by Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This third talk turns to writers in English, and looks at how the Irish gods were resuscitated and reimagined in modernity as symbols
Mar 14th 2022

The Goddess Brigid – Professor Ronald Hutton Zoom Lecture
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This talk is designed to look at the evidence for both goddess and saint, and the possible relationships between them.
Feb 23rd 2022

Irish Gods – The Túatha Dé Danann – Dr Mark Williams by Zoom
Digital Event - Zoom Lecture
This second talk takes listeners through a magnificent saga from the ninth century, The Second Battle of Moytura
Feb 13th 2022
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