John V. Kelleher Lecturers

Since 2004 the Harvard Department of Celtic Languages & Literatures has had the pleasure of hosting the following Celtic Scholars.

Kelleher Lecturers

  1. Seamus Heaney, 2004
  2. Philip O’Leary, Boston College. 2005
  3. Joseph Nagy, UCLA, 2006
  4. Richard Suggett, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales. 2007
  5. Damian McManus, Trinity College Dublin, 2008
  6. Patrick Sims-Williams, Aberystwyth University, 2009
  7. Katharine Simms, Trinity College Dublin, 2010
  8. Huw Pryce, Bangor University, 2011
  9. Pádraig Breatnach, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2012
  10. Thomas Owen Clancy, Glasgow University, 2013
  11. Ann Parry Owen, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2014
  12. Fergus Kelly, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (lecture read by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh), 2015
  13. Jerry Hunter, Bangor University, 2016
  14. Paul Russell, University of Cambridge, 2017
  15. Willie Gillies, Edinburgh University, 2018
  16. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, University of Cambridge, 2019
  17. Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2021(online; no lecture in 2020)
  18. Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut, 2022
  19. Helen Fulton, University of Bristol, 2023
  20. Liam Breatnach, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS,  2024
  21. Rob Dunbar, University of Edinburgh, 2025