Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

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For the September 2025 LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month, the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social looks at Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 P 10 iii, containing a compilation of texts on fevers and many beautiful illuminations. Read more here! 👇📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for August 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 24 P 15, containing Irish versions of Petrus de Argellata’s surgical text and the works of Bernard of Gordon. Read more here! 👇 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man... @siobhbar.bsky.social

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for July 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 N 29. It consists of 23 paper fragments, one of which is a portion of the sole surviving prosimetrical remedy collection in Irish. Read more here! 👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2025 is London, British Library MS Add. 15582, completed in Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1563 & then brought to Scotland. It contains texts on regimen, cautery & this image of a ‘Phlebotomy Man’: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Hayden, Deborah and Baccianti, Sarah (2025) Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World. Vernacular Texts and Traditions. mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for May 2025 is Edinburgh, NLS Adv. MS 72.1.4 (‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’), containing a copy of Psalm 118 followed by medical definitions and aphorisms in Latin with Irish translations: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Extended deadline: 6 June 2025 PhD studentship The Lives and Miracles of St Laurence O'Toole Work on Latin Miracula under Dr Jesse Harrington (DIAS) and Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth). www.dias.ie/applications... @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW428/r...

It was a great honour to speak yesterday at the @dias.ie conference '(Re)Creating Stories'. Shout out to @ninacnock.bsky.social for putting it on and to @lydiahursh.bsky.social for the photo. Thanks also to all the amazing speakers who have given me so much to think about in this area of study!

New episode w/Royal Irish Academy Librarian Barbara McCormack about @ria.ie's collection incl. many of Ireland's most precious medieval manuscripts e.g. the Cathach, the Stowe Missal, Leabhar Breac & The Book of the Dun Cow. FREE TO ALL. Check out www.ria.ie/library/ open.spotify.com/episode/28Pq...

Advance notice: to be broadcast in 4 instalments from Sun 8 June: "From that Small Island" (programmesales.rte.ie/programme/fr...) A history of Ireland by Briona Nic Dhiarmada & Jane Ohlmeyer. Includes cameos by myself as part of my @researchireland.ie research. 📖: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Agnetha Ní Máelshechlainn was a clever political negotiator who defended her monastery from expropriation during the English conquest of Ireland, writes Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva. @scs-dias.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

My article 'Tradition and Innovation in the Materiality of Medieval Gaelic Law Manuscripts' is now out in Care & Conservation of Manuscripts 19 mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19... This features research conducted while still @scs-dias.bsky.social before joining @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social 🎉

Don't miss the ‘Medical Words/Medical Worlds’ workshop in the University of Cambridge on 5-6 June 2025! 🩻 Speakers will explore medieval medical lexicography and translation in a range of European linguistic traditions. 🌍 More info: buff.ly/r77QWCA

"Designing sustainable Digital Editions", Dr Pádraic Moran, University of Galway. 17.00-18.00, Tuesday 27 May 2025. Iontas seminar room 1.33, Maynooth University. All welcome - no booking required.

The OG(H)AM project just about made it, on the last day of the month, to publish Katherine Forsyth's Og(h)am of the Month, about a - once - mysterious small object from Moynagh Lough (Meath) with og(h)am on it: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og... While the object as such is mysterious no more... /1

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Research Assistantship in the Dept of Early Irish @maynoothuniversity.ie, working with the amazing @chantalkobel.bsky.social for the SCRÍBHINN project on medieval Irish legal & medical manuscripts. Deadline 30 May 2025. More details here: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

Digital Epigraphy Workshop coming soon in Dublin (TCD) and Maynooth (MU)! #Photogrammetry #RTI and #EpiDoc hands-on training over 3 days. Booking essential for workshop as limited places (note: keynotes do not require booking). Programme & Eventbrite link: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

Tá an ceapachán déanta ag Uachtarán na hÉireann @president.ie arna moladh ag an Aire Ard-Oideachais, Breis-Oideachais agus Oiliúna, Nuálaíochta, Taighde ⁊ Eolaíochta, James Lawless TD. Breis eolais ag: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Huge congratulations to Prof Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social (Early Irish @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social)🎆 who has been appointed Chair of the Governing Board of the School of Celtic Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @diasdublin.bsky.social 🎉🎇🍾 /1

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2025, brought to you by the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social, is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G8, a ‘pocket-size medical encyclopaedia’ with a Kildare connection: 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Folúntas - Vacancy Comhaltacht Uí Aimhirgín - Bergin Fellowship Comhaltacht 5 bliana í seo do thaighdeoir i dtús a réime This is a 5-year fellowship for an early-career researcher. Tuilleadh eolais - Details: www.dias.ie/bergin-fello... #DIASdiscovers

This week on the pod we are joined by @cgschweizer.bsky.social who is conducting some brilliant @researchireland.bsky.social funded research in @galwayclassics.bsky.social on Irish scholar Dicuil & the craic had at the Carolingian Court in Aachen, early 9th century. open.spotify.com/episode/3bLL...

This week on the podcast we thank Dr Janel Fontaine for sharing her research on slavery in the Middle Ages. From the accounts of Patrick in the 5th century to Gerald of Wales in the 12th she explains how slavery was built into the fabric of medieval Irish society. open.spotify.com/episode/048Y...

The event will include a tour of the ‘Curious Cures’ exhibition at Cambridge University Library and the launch of the new volume Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions, due out soon with @brepols.bsky.social: www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

The LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is thrilled to be co-hosting this workshop in Cambridge next June with the excellent eDIL: Dictionary of the Irish Language team! Links to the programme, abstracts and registration now live: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

Explore the new site for the Mind and Material in the Middles Ages Research Strength in the @muahi.bsky.social in Maynooth University. 🔎 Co-lead by @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social, with many members from the School of Celtic Studies. 📜 🔗 ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

The LEIGHEAS Medical Manuscript of the Month for March 2025 is Edinburgh University Library MS La.III.21 ('The McBeath Gaelic Medical Manuscript'). Special thanks to @pomuirch.bsky.social for giving us the opportunity to see it in person recently! leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Saturday's mail.... It's getting real! Just a "few" long pages of indexing left. That's our weekend "fun" sorted @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @brepols.bsky.social

Warmest congratulations to Dr Emer Kavanagh, who was awarded her PhD in Medieval Irish Studies @maynoothuniversity.ie today! Her research was generously supported by @researchireland.bsky.social. What an achievement!! ☺️🎉🎉🎉🍾🎓

The LEIGHEAS project @EarlyIrishMU had a great day yesterday at the Medical Manuscripts and Medical History workshop hosted by the Departments of History, Classics & Archaeology and Celtic & Scottish Studies @EdinburghUni where we got a chance to look at some Medical Manuscripts

A fascinating John Bannerman lecture this evening delivered by @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social and a wonderful workshop this afternoon with these beautiful medical manuscripts held at EUL CRC: [Inc F.9; OR MS 416; Col 98/4/1/3; La. III 21]

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 3 The lexicographic database 𝓒𝓸𝓻𝓹𝓾𝓼 𝓟𝓪𝓵𝓪𝓮𝓸𝓗𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓾𝓶 (CorPH, chronhib.maynoothuniversity.ie/chronhibWebs...) was one of the main outputs of my previous @erc.europa.eu-funded Consolidator Grant project 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓰𝓲𝓬𝓸𝓷 𝓗𝓲𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓲𝓬𝓾𝓶 (2015–2021). Currently, CorPH contains 78 minutely... /1

And finally, on the evening of 13th March I’ll be giving the John Bannerman Memorial Lecture at the University of Edinburgh, on ‘Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Gaelic World: Myth and History’ Registration details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-banne... All welcome!

The @LEIGHEAS project @muahi.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social is going on tour next week! First, I’ll be joining the brilliant Dr Sharon Arbuthnot on Tuesday 11th March for a joint talk with the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies: @researchireland.bsky.social

On Thursday 13th, @siobhbar.bsky.social & I will take part in a workshop on ‘Medical Manuscripts and Medical History’ at the University of Edinburgh, kindly hosted by the Departments of @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social & Celtic and Scottish Studies. Sign up here!👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medical-ma....

Raffaella has spent two years digitising hundreds of precious medieval medical texts for the Curious Cures in Cambridge Project, funded by Wellcome: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/curiouscures

A piece I wrote about Oxford Corpus Christi College MS 129 for Feb 2025’s issue of ‘Sundial’. www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/sundi... This 16th century Irish Medical Manuscript was written by An Gilla Glas Ó Caiside. See also leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man... @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social

A Date for the Diary!📆 Hugely looking forward to hosting this workshop in Cambridge next June in collaboration with the excellent eDIL project (www.dil.ie). Bringing together research on medical terminology in medieval Irish, Welsh, English, French, German & more. All welcome! Details to follow...

Congrats @‪dhaydenceltic.bsky.social & @davidstifter.bsky.social Your article is also available in MURAL at: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...

Thrilled to see @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social's and my article about "Ogam, cryptography and healing charms in the nineteenth century: observations on ‘The Minchin Manuscript’" published in the Proceedings of the @ria.ie today: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti.... It's an output of the OG(H)AM project,... /1

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for February 2025 is TCD MS 1315, containing an Irish version of Magninus of Milan's Regimen sanitatis, a commentary on the Colliget of Averroes by the Irish physician Tadhg Ó Cuinn, & more! leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

🚨 Lost & Found! A 19th-century Irish translation of Paradise Lost by poet Tomás ‘an tSneachta’ Ó Conchubhair has been rediscovered in the University of Illinois collection! 🎉 Believed lost for decades, it's now live on ISOS. 📜 🌍 👉 Explore: www.isos.dias.ie/collection/u...

How St Brigid made Kildare the hotspot of 7th century Ireland. Medieval writer Cogitosus described Kildare as a 'vast & metropolitan city' thanks to the presence of the tomb of St Brigid. By @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @maynoothuni.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

In honour of the upcoming long weekend in honour of St Brigit/Feb 1st, see below a great article by Tiago Veloso Silva on some of the great Irish women who came after Brigit in Kildare @maynoothuni.bsky.social @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Another year, another LEIGHEAS project blog on medieval Irish medicine! This month, Dr Siobhán Barrett @siobhbar.bsky.social takes a look at two of the more common ingredients used in Irish medical remedies for a range of ailments: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/the-land-of-...

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month series is back for another year! Our January 2025 entry is @ria.ie MS 23 F 19, containing an original Irish treatise on anatomy, an Irish version of the Trotula texts on women’s medicine & much more👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...