The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to showcase and make accessible a large body of medieval texts, written in the Middle Irish/Gaelic language in prose and verse, which recreate and transform in this Celtic guise the myths, legends, and intellectual culture of ancient Greece and Rome. These texts, dating from the tenth to the fifteenth century, demonstrate the extraordinary vigour of Gaelic Ireland’s indigenous and pre-colonial engagement with Classical learning. Ireland emerges as a unique locale where expertise on the European past flourished and recreated itself on the Atlantic edge of Europe, in a cultural environment that traditional scholarship has too often regarded as peripheral. The texts themselves, however, remain largely unknown outside the circles of specialist scholars, and their mediation between Celtic and Classical linguistic codes and literary norms presents a significant challenge to interpretation. Our conference aims to bring together Celticists and Classicists for a groundbreaking venture that will generate accessibility to these texts and place them within the broader context of European literary history as a whole, including the corresponding traditions of medieval Scandinavia. The conference also aims to challenge prevailing research patterns within several neighbouring academic disciplines, including colonial and postcolonial studies.