Autumn storms around the corner - cleared my last tomatoes. Was a great year for them

A beautiful autumn morning @ucddublin.bsky.social

The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.

Autumn harvest continues 😊🌱🌶️

Haven't seen this before. A husband and wife stamped a different side of the same piece of wax with their seal. LFC Ch XXV 14. #medievalsky

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, an Astronomical Tract. It is an Irish translation of medieval Latin texts. The astronomical tract is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815.

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

Autumn

Autumnal feeder - a magnificent Red Admiral butterfly

Guarding ripening tomatoes? So autumnal today! 🌱🐈

A very tired bee, maybe at its final flower given the season 🌱

Visited family down in Limerick & Killaloe for a few days & came back to a great garden harvest 🌱

Early afternoon in Killaloe Cathedral

A Frenchwoman in Ireland: ‘I have enjoyed living in Dublin but I would prefer to live in Cork’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Sun-seeker 🌱🐈

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Just harvested some organic flat leaf parsley seeds - I haven’t bought a plant in years. I just let them go to seed when the time comes - they self-propogate readily & it is also easy to grow extra plants from seed 🌱

Have been really enjoying the Siem Estella conference - focusing on multilingualism & identities in early medieval west. I’ve learned so much & Estella-Lizarra is an incredible venue (tho’ very warm for an Irish person like me!)

“Ireland’s plan to weaken waterway protections will push many beyond recovery.” Quoted by @ellamcsweeney via @swanireland.ie Healthy water means healthy gardens. Let’s protect what sustains us. #EcoGardening #ProtectOurWater #ClimateAction

On top of the world - bumblebee foraging on a drumstick allium in my garden 🌱

My field poppies are flowering - such a colourful start to the day 🌱

A bee in on foraging heaven 🌱

Ireland’s emissions fines could hit €26bn as decline in greenhouse gases slows www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Male hoverfly feeding on a Carthusian dianthus flower - a tiny jewel of a pollinator 🌱

A bit of colour on a grey day - a beautiful hardy geranium

Maynooth University Research is now on Bluesky! Please give us a follow for all things #Research related happening at MU @muresearch.bsky.social 🙏

Just finished my external examining at @maynoothuniversity.ie history department. It was brilliant to see such great work from colleagues putting students at the centre of their degrees. Not unhappy to have the summer examining over mind you!

You don’t get ladybugs without their prey….teasels make great companion plants as they attract the aphids away from other plants & this is turn brings the ladybirds 🌱

Job alert: 10-month position as Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the Maynooth School of Celtic Studies! Please note: The closing date for applications is 𝟏𝟖 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞; I will have the error on the website corrected ASAP.

The @nytimes.com "passed" on this

Don lá atá inniu ann - Lá Fhéile Bhréanainn. For the day that's in it - St Brendan's Day. I'll spend the day putting some final touches on the forthcoming new edition of Nauigatio Sancti Brendani, ed. Rossana Guglielmetti, published by @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie.

Catching the morning sun

Foraging on thyme flowers - a gentle bumblebee 🌱

Shortlived but beautiful - the cranesbill flower 🌱

A calm & hazy morning on Sandymount Strand: just a slight breath of movement in the air

The lengthening day

Sorry, as a historian, I can’t help it: Two Augustinians.

My first hardy geranium flowers - love this particular one - geranium phaeum / dusky cranesbill

Feels like summer🌱

Last full day for this trip. Reading in the library & also saying hello to the 1654 work of the deluxe Irish scribe Joseph Murphy

A beautiful solitary bee feeding on an emerging allium 🌱

400 years after its 1625 foundation, the Collegium Fratrum Minorum Hibernorum of Luke Wadding of Waterford, Sant’ Isidoro.

Statement: The Royal Irish Academy is ceasing activity on X (Twitter) www.ria.ie/2025/05/01/t...

Looking forward to tomorrow's Matheson Lecture from @elvabjohnston.bsky.social - the highlight of the Celtic & Gaelic year! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mathes.... (too late to remove the typo unfortunately ...)

Putting together my paper for the Matheson lecture in Glasgow on “Women and Conversion in Late Antique Ireland”. The problem is what not too include….which I didn’t foresee when I gave the title in the first place…