The Celtic Origins of Halloween
b"The Embassy of Ireland in Canada is hosting two spooky events this Halloween... Join us for a lecture on the Celtic origins of Halloween with Tiber Falzett, UCD, on 29 October 4pm EDT, and for our younger community members, a reading of Una Wood's book on the 31st at 10am EDT! Tiber Falzett has conducted over fifteen years of fieldwork among Scottish Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and Scotland\\u2019s Outer Hebrides. His research explores the relationship between language, music and the construction of community through socially-rooted forms of local knowledge as expressed, transmitted and maintained by Gaels on both sides of the Atlantic. Before joining the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore as a lecturer in Folklore and Ethnology, Tiber served as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching in both the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Folklore Curriculum (American Studies). At UNC-CH, he was the inaugural SHUSA Lecturer in Scottish Gaelic Studies, the first dedicated academic post in Scottish Gaelic studies in the United States of America."