It was a tremendous honour to give a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies in Bonn last Wednesday. I can’t thank @elenaparina.bsky.social and her team enough for the invitation, welcome, and the perfect organisation of the conference!

@cgschweizer.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie fellow at @galwayclassics.bsky.social gave a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil (2/7)

The Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies starts tomorrow! So much looking forward to welcome all the wonderful scholars @cgschweizer.bsky.social @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @ninacnock.bsky.social @metamedievalist.bsky.social @medievalireland.bsky.social and a lot of others!

First, in Session 1020 (Programme page 252), we have my own colleague Christian Schweizer (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) discussing ‘Dicuil’s Grammatical Texts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.

Nearing the end of season 2 & we've hit over 100K listens on the podcast 🥂. Thanks to all of our guests for sharing their time & expertise! Thoroughly enjoyed talking medieval Ireland over the last 38 episodes, more anon! @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie open.spotify.com/show/1Gq9yIx...

JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social

A fantastic opportunity to do a fully funded PhD at CAMPS and with @galwayclassics.bsky.social on linguistic obscurity in medieval texts!

Congratulations to Jacopo Bisagni and Paula Harrison on the release of their new monograph on Laon, B.M., MS 422 written in collaboration with Isabelle Draelants @cnrs.fr. This comprehensive study focusses on the scientific, cosmological, and computational content of this manuscript from ca 815.

We are looking forward our MA research symposium and book launch (and lunch😉), on tomorrow at noon!

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: ‘’De Quolibet’: Research from the MA Medieval and Antiquity: A CAMPS Symposium’, on Friday 16/05 12p in THB G010. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome! (@uniofgalway.bsky.social)

PhD studentship available ‘The Lives and Miracles of St. Laurence O’Toole’. To work on Latin texts of miracles of St Laurence under Dr Jesse Harrington (DIAS) and Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth University). Deadline: 23 May 2025 Deis mhaith do laidneoirí! #DIASdiscovers @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: Ian Wong (@ianleewong.bsky.social), ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’, on Friday 25/04 12p in THB 1001. Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

Since I had trouble finding any "brief introduction to XML and TEI" that was either brief or genuinely introductory, I decided to write one myself: www.pmoran.ie/posts/guide-...

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...

It’s a dream come true for me to talk about Irish scholars at the Carolingian court in @niamhwycherley.bsky.social's Medieval Irish History Podcast😊. open.spotify.com/episode/3bLL... Also had a fantastic time in Maynooth for the recording @researchireland.bsky.social @galwayclassics.bsky.social

Here is a video of one of the highlights of yesterday’s CAMPS Lab: Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social is playing medieval bagpipes in a demonstration accompanying Simone Marcenaro’s paper ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’

You are most welcome to our next lab: Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise) ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’, with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social on medieval recorders and bagpipes! Friday, 7 March 12pm THB G010

Ever wonder how Latin shaped the Irish language? Pádraic Moran dives into the connection between these languages in a recent RTÉ Brainstorm piece.👇 #IrishLanguage #Linguistics #IrishHistory @campsgalway.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce our upcoming CAMPS Lab: Anthony Candon Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages Friday 28 February 12 noon THB G011 @uniofgalway.bsky.social @historyatgalway.bsky.social @galwayclassics.bsky.social

From póg to obair, Irish freely adopted Latin vocabulary during the Christianisation of the country, especially to describe religion, education and daily life. By Pádraic Moran @uniofgalway.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The Book of Kells, dating from around 800, has been digitized at @tcddublin.bsky.social: digitalcollections.tcd.ie/concern/works/hm50tr726?locale=en Enjoy the beauty of the insular majuscule script and the insular illuminations! #medievalsky

We are looking forward to a great lineup of speakers for our CAMPS labs this term:

The PhD network I'm on is looking for a researcher to be based at Bristol, working on Carolingian literature during the period of transition from manuscript to early printed book – application deadline 27 Jan 2025. More details below. Spread the word! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

#Jobangebot! Frisch im Jahr 2025 eine kleine Erinnerung: Bis zum 6.1.2025 kann man sich noch für die Promotionsstelle (max. 3 Jahre) am @dhiparis.wisskomm.social.ap.brid.gy bewerben! 👇

The Department of Celtic Studies (IAAK, Uni Bonn) will host the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies from 27th to 30th August 2025. The deadline for abstracts is 28th February. Any questions can be addressed to [email protected]. We look forward to receiving your contributions!

Johann-Kaspar-Zeuss-Prizes 2024 of the SCE go to: Christian Schweizer for his thesis 'Dicuil’s De Cursu Solis Lunaeque: Translation and Commentary' and Erin McNulty for her article ‘Aavioghey as Y Breear: Language Revitalization and the Manx Verbal System’ (JCL 24, 2023). Congratulations! 🏆🥂🎉

We are inviting you to a CAMPS Lab: This Friday, 29/11, at 12 noon THB G0.10 (in person only), followed by free lunch. Brian Walsh (County Museum, Dundalk) "Emphasising the story in history - the work of the curator". This is in addition to tomorrow's special collaboration with the History Seminar.

Here is the Manuscript and Book History starter pack, with experts working on Latin, Chinese, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, Old English, Slavic, Ethiopian and many more manuscript and book traditions! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

Looking forward to talking to @historyatgalway.bsky.social and @campsgalway.bsky.social about „The Early Medieval Scholar Dicuil and his World“ next Wednesday at 4pm. Zoom available, signup at tinyurl.com/Schweizer202...

This will be my last seminar as convenor before I hand over to @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social. I've run the seminar since 2021; it's been an absolute pleasure. A job asking interesting people to come and chat to us for an hour-and-a-half *and* I get to have lunch/coffee with them beforehand? Perfect.

Our final research seminar of the semester features Dr Christian Schweizer of @campsgalway.bsky.social on 'The Early Medieval Scholar Dicuil and his World'. 4pm, Wed 27 Nov, Bridge Seminar Room (Rm 1001), Hardiman Building, or join us online. Register here for Zoom: tinyurl.com/Schweizer202... 🗃️

In collaboration with @historyatgalway.bsky.social, we invite you to a seminar next Wednesday at 4 pm, in the Bridge room and on Zoom (see below for the signup link). Our Communications officer @cgschweizer.bsky.social will be speaking about „The Early Medieval Scholar Dicuil and his World“

First look at my new documentary. It's an essay about the impact of early medieval Christianity on the Irish writing tradition. This is the closest I've come to bringing the podcast hug to television, I cant wait for ye to see it. Next Thursday RTE 1 10.15PM

"Like all empires, this one rested on a foundation of lies." #Oathbreakers, out from @harpercollins.bsky.social on 12/10. The story of how Charlemagne's grandsons fought a brutal civil war and shattered the Frankish Empire. SIGNED COPY GIVEAWAY. Repost to enter. First drawing 7 pm CST USA. /1

I tried to make a University of Galway Starter Pack, but it's hard to find everyone (especially from the Starter Pack view!). Please let me know if you'd like to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/5nh4xSJ

I made one of these for late antiquity. I definitely don't have everyone, so feel free to comment and I'll add you or other people you suggest. go.bsky.app/KP1nQVP

Made a medieval manuscripts and book history starter pack (broadly defined). It is definitely not exhaustive so please comment and I'll add you and the accounts that you think are missing! go.bsky.app/AN9pLVo

In our first CAMPS Lab of the academic year, Michael Clarke will speak on “Echoes of the Theban Legend in a Late Medieval Irish King-Tale” 08/11/24, 12:00 noon THB G0-10 This talk is also available via ZOOM. Please sign up for the link by filling in this form here: forms.office.com/e/WCrXXM8wzw

Places where Irish scholars were active on the continent in the ninth century (map drawn by Padraic Moran: www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...)

I am incredibly excited to return to Tübingen after nine years, thanks to a visiting fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies "Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" for the next month.

Research fellowship on “Environmental History in the medieval Islamicate Mediterranean, c. 650-1050” - Università Ca' Foscari Venezia www.unive.it/data/28825/ #medievalsky

PhD Studentship - Early Medieval Political and/or Intellectual Culture (c.500-c.1000 CE)- University College Dublin - The College of Arts and Humanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJZ232/p... #skystorians 🗃️

Very happy to have contributed again to the Virtual-Record-Treasury-of-Ireland-website with 3 watercolour drawings for the Merchants and Mariners in Medieval Ireland Curated Collection. The texts were written by Daryl Rooney. virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler.... #MedievalSky

I am looking forward to discussing the challenges of translating Dicuil’s texts tomorrow in the Translation Café at the University of Galway. 24 September, 1-2pm THB-1003, Floor 1, Hardiman Research Building

Das Programm für das Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter steht! Das Forum findet am 16. September 2024 in Köln statt. Eine digitale Teilnahme ist möglich – bitte bis 12.9.24 eine Nachricht an [email protected] schicken. Alle Infos unter fobim.de/fobim-2024. #medievalsky #mediävistik

Fantastic start to my IMC schedule - incredible showcase of work being done in the field! And so many great ms images... 📖

Looking forward to our session on various crises related to Carolingian scholars and their manuscripts, Monday 2:15 pm @imc-leeds.bsky.social, together with Peter Fraundorfer @historytcd.bsky.social (I am sure there will be Cat drawings 🐱), Patrick Marschner, and Jo Story @insularmss.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Unser Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter findet am 16./17. September 2024 in Köln (hybrid) statt. Alle Infos unter www.fobim.de/fobim-2024. #medievalsky #Mediävistik #cfp