Przedmowa/Editors’ Preface

This thematic Celtic issue contains selected papers from the 3rd Lublin Celtic Colloquium, which took place on 19-20 September 2019 and was organised to mark the 30th anniversary of the Department of Celtic Studies at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.The aim of the conference was to bring together people who share an interest in all things Celtic, be it linguistics, literature or culture, and to present researchers with a broader picture in the face of the growing compartmenttalisation and specialisation in academic research.The leitmotif of the conference-"Changing Perspectives in Celtic Studies"-can be read in two ways: on the one hand, it encourages us to look into a shift of emphasis in Celtic studies, and on the other it encourages us to actively shape and direct the academic debate by offering new insights.This collection thus covers a wide spectrum of issues relating specifically to the study of Celtic languages, which are addressed in the area of phonology, morphology, syntax, chronology and lexicology: the papers offer structural and functional analyses alongside sociolinguistic considerations.This issue is also a modest token of gratitude to all of the people who founded the Department of Celtic Studies at KUL and who have made its activity for the past 30 years possible.The Department started due to the inspiration and intellectual leadership of the late Professor Edmund Gussmann, who led it until his departure in 1999, when Professor Eugeniusz Cyran took over until 2014.Since then, Professor Maria Bloch-Trojnar has been in charge.When it was founded back in 1989 with the aim of conducting research in the area of Celtic languages, literature and culture (especially, but not only, that of Irish and Welsh), the Department was the only one of its kind in central Europe.It was the only place where one could learn both Irish and Welsh.The first handbook for learning Irish in Poland was prepared in Lublin by Prof

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