Students on annual Pilgrimage to Gleann a' Bhaird (Glenbard)

Celtic Studies Student Activities

During the year the department sponsors a number of extra-curricular activities including the annual pilgrimage to Glenbard, Gaelic Language days, milling frolics, lectures, and film series.

Watch slideshow of Celtic Department and Comunn Ceilteach activities during the 2008-9 academic year with Gaelic titles >> or with English titles >>

An Comunn Ceilteach at the annual concert, 3 April 2009
Photo by Conrad Poirier

The department works in conjunction with Comunn Ceilteach StFX (aka, the St FX Celtic Society), an active student Celtic society which sponsors céilidhs and other cultural events. The society and the Celtic Department have established a scholarship which has so far sent 21 students to attend Gaelic summer courses at Sabhal Mór Ostaig, the Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. The scholarship is paid for by funds raised by the students themselves, especially at the annual concert.

Students and faculty milling in concert
Photo by Conrad Poirier

Join us on FaceBook! We have a FaceBook group titled St FX Celtic Department. In addition, the St FX Celtic Society has its own FaceBook group.

The Mari Lwyd visits the Welsh class
Photo by David Maillet