Association of Celtic Students

 Last semester (Autumn 2022), I had the tremendous opportunity to teach my very first entire course, Celts in Popular Culture at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish Nova Scotia. I first audited the course back when I was doing my Master's there, and it felt quite poetic to begin the final year of Doctorate teaching that same class. If it has not been very obvious, I (Emmet Taylor, the person who runs this blog for the Association), am deeply fascinated in modern representations of Celtic peoples and history. I wrote a blog post about Druids in Dungeons and Dragons (which became a conference paper), I have co-presented on the representation of Irish paganism in the most recent Assassins Creed , and I co-hosted an episode of our podcast on Far Right appropriation of Celtic materials . The conference paper I presented at the 2022 Association of Celtic Student's Conference discussed the modern reception of Longes mac nUislenn and Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghrái