'Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures' is out now Edited by Helen Fulton and Georgia Henley, this collection goes beyond the familiar canon of medieval Celtic literatures to showcase a range of texts that are compelling in their literary imagination and technical innovation.

On way back from two weeks on the short courses at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social A truly outstanding experience. Terrific staff; so welcoming. Learned a ton. Met amazing folks. Run don't walk to next year's Cùrsaichean Goirid! www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/short-course...

Thanks to you, Deborah, and to all the other contributors for their wonderful work. And thanks to Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for such an excellent job all around in producing the volume. Can't say enough about their professionalism and support; joy to work with. Enjoy, a chairde!

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

I'll be launching Dr Rebecca Shercliffe's Old Irish: A Beginner's Guide @ria.ie tomorrow eve at 6.30pm. If you are around, do pop into 19 Dawson St. to help celebrate the publication of Dr Shercliffe's new book!

Now available on léamh.org, a selection from a 17th century poem composed for Maol Muire Mac Suibhne. Thanks to @ciaranimhurchu.bsky.social for the wonderful work preparing the selection. Take a look at the poem here xn--lamh-bpa.org/texts/cuid-r...

Anois ar fáil ar léamh.org, sliocht ó dhán polaitiúil ón 17ú Aois a cumadh do Maol Muire Mac Suibhne. Ár mbuíochas le @ciaranimhurchu.bsky.social as an obair iontach ar fad lena chur in eagar. Caith súil air anseo xn--lamh-bpa.org/texts/cuid-r...

Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social featured in a recent @nytimes.com piece! Link below: history.uconn.edu/2025/05/27/m...

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

Spotlight on Gaelic education in Edinburgh – event this weekend The successes and challenges of Gaelic-medium education (GME)  in Edinburgh will come under the spotlight at a discussion organised by the Gaelic community group Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann. GME has grown impressively since it began…

Available now on léamh.org: glossary to Cecile O'Rahilly (ed./trans.) Eachtra Uilliam. Get your own copy of this fascinating tale at shop.dias.ie/product/each... (currently on sale!). Thanks as ever to DIAS School of Celtic Studies (@scs-dias.bsky.social). Happy reading and translating, a chairde!

Hot off the presses! I’m Delighted to have had the chance to discuss the use of #Gaeilge in #EarlyModern #Irish #towns and #parliaments. Míle buíochas @brendankanect.bsky.social for starting me on this path.

Glossary from Eleanor Knott's "Irish Syllabic Poetry" now included in the glossary section of léamh.org (xn--lamh-bpa.org/glossary/). With thanks, as ever, to DIAS School of Celtic Studies (@scs-dias.bsky.social). Get your own copy of this foundational text here: shop.dias.ie/product/an-i...

I'd just like to encourage everyone, but especially ECRs to consider submitting to the North American Journal of Cetlic Studies. I can say from experience that the journal gets fast and effective peer review, which can be a boon for junior scholars.

Happy to see my book in print! IGT V is the oldest surviving metrical tract of the Early Modern Irish period (13th/14th cent.), used to train students in poetry, language, and style. irishtextssociety.org/publications... Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!

Post fógraithe do Léachtóir le Gaeilge (An Léann Ceilteach), lánaimseartha, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Tuilleadh eolais: féach www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/ agus "Academic Vacancies". [Job for Lecturer in Irish (Celtic Studies) at the University of Galway.]

CFP! Deadline April 25th. The PhD researchers in the Dept of Early Irish are organising a conference (Nov. 7th, Maynooth) for postgraduates in any area related to 'Celtic Studies' to provide them with an opportunity to present their research in a lively, welcoming and academically robust setting!

Nua-fhoilsithe ag Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn BhÁC @scs-dias.bsky.social @diasdublin.bsky.social: "Seal re Saobhnós" in eagar ag Síle Ní Mhurchú ⁊ Mícheál Hoyne - cnuasach aistí ar na dánta grá. Ar ordú ag shop.dias.ie/product/seal...

Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Irish and Digital Humanities- University College Dublin – School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore / School of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO003/a...

Work on your Irish at the Boston Public Library!

Irish language schemes under threat due to funding shortfall: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025... from @irishtimes.com @eocaollai.bsky.social

Come and hear me talk about democracy & political participation in #earlyModern #Ireland on Tuesday. Freemen, freeholders, grand juries and town panels all feature. Image Limerick’s panel 1641. Béidh fáilte roimh cách!

🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌 Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

A new exhibition at the Benton museum shares the work & life of Minnie Negoro, who started @uconn.bsky.social ceramics. She was incarcerated @heartmountain.bsky.social, like my grandma & her family. It was a privilege for me to hear about her legacy from former students and friends.

I am happy to announce a new initiative, the Early Modern Women and Religion seminar, a virtual forum intended to generate new ideas for the study of early modern British and Irish women and religion. We will meet once a semester. Both established and ECRs (including graduate students) are welcome.

Gairm ar pháipéir Call for papers (Re)creating stories: rewritings and adaptations of Old and Middle Irish texts in Early Modern and Modern Irish DIAS, BÁC, 23-4 Bealtaine 2025 / DIAS, Dublin, 23-4 May 2025 Sprioc: 31 Eanáir Closing date: 31 January www.dias.ie/2024/11/05/c...

Studia Celtica 2024, issue 58, is out! Prepared jointly by @Ganolfan and @UniWalesPress.  A hearfelt thank you to the diligent members of the editorial board, to Gwen Gruffudd, and especially to the authors for a great collection of articles and reviews. 1/2

If you haven’t seen this call for applications yet, come join our terrific humanities institute at The University of Connecticut as a residential fellow! Applications due February 1. humanities.uconn.edu/fellowships/...

Big thanks to Mairéad Finnegan for sharing her PhD research on dress & fashion in the 12th to 16th centuries. We chat sumptuary laws, tomb effigies, dodgy hairstyles, short shorts, long shoes & how the medieval Irish expressed themselves through their clothes. open.spotify.com/episode/738R...

Grateful for the chance to speak in the series! Will be a bit of a week with that and classes starting. Le cúnamh Dé... Ag súil go mór leis, ar aon nós; tá súil agam go bhfeicfidh mé ann sibh!

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...

Píosa iontach scríofa le Alex Hijmans do Chomhar faoi na rudaí atá ar siúil in Utrecht. 🥰/ Wonderful piece written by Alex Hijmans for Comhar about the things that are happening in Utrecht! comhar.ie/iris/85/1/10...

Reminder 🚨 Call for Papers for this conference on (Early) Modern Irish adaptations of Old and Middle Irish prose and poetic narratives (to be held 23 & 24 May 2025, @diasdublin.bsky.social). Deadline to send abstracts: 31 January! 🗓️

Aiste 7 (2024), deasaichte le Sìm Innes & Sheila M. Kidd, ri fhaighinn air loidhne a-nis aig 👉 clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

'Towards a History of Parliamentary Culture in the Early Modern World: Concept, Geopolitical Scope, and Method' by Paulina Kewes, Jim van der Meulen, Steven J. Gunn, Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves, Paul Seaward (@pseaward.bsky.social) & Tracey A. Sowerby (open access). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sin fíor: we're hoping to help more people get reading bardic poetry, Counter Reformation prose, annals, letters, srl in the original. There's a lot of amazing Early Modern Irish material available, quite a bit untranslated. See you there?!

🎇Many and heartfelt congratulations 🎇 to my brilliant colleague Dr Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social who has been promoted to Professor B in the @maynoothuni.bsky.social promotion scheme. 🎊This is such a well deserved recognition of her work! 🎉 Deborah joined the Maynooth Department… /1

The Fiants of the Irish Tudor Sovereigns are a giant five volume set of catalogued documents listing grants and pardons to lords in Ireland convicted of unrest. They are a hugely important source for identifying names and places in sixteenth century Ireland.

Thanks so much to @manusrua.bsky.social for chatting with us about the Léamh project. Give a listen, if curious, and be in touch if questions, thoughts, etc. And have a look at the whole Celtic Students Podcast line-up. Some great stuff, there! @uconnhistory.bsky.social @foundhistory.bsky.social

Do not miss!

For the December 2024 LEIGHEAS project blog, our brilliant research affiliate Dr Sharon Arbuthnot of the Dictionary of the Irish Language (www.dil.ie) considers the challenges of dating medieval Irish medical texts & their vocabulary. Happy reading! 👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/dating-medie...

Check out this piece from "News from Brown" about the JCB's Research Fellowship for Indigenous Communities. Full details about all JCB opportunities here> jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...

Bígí linn ag comhdháil na bliana 2025! 12-14 Meitheamh 2025. Cuirimid fáilte roimh pháipéir i mBéarla agus in aon cheann de na teangacha Ceilteacha ar aon ghné den Léann Ceilteach ó mhic léinn reatha agus nuachéimnithe. Sprioclá d'achoimrí ar an 13 Nollaig: https://buff.ly/49og0nV

Our #IrishStudies seminar series is taking a break over the holidays, but we will will be back (in-person and online) on Monday 20th January at 4.30 when Margaret Ward will talk about her new book 'Rebel Women'. All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory

Call for Papers: (Re)Creating Stories, a conference on (Early) Modern Irish adaptations of Old and Middle Irish prose and poetic narratives. 🚨 Deadline to submit: 31 January 2025 🗓️ Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th May 2025, @diasdublin.bsky.social www.dias.ie/2024/11/05/c...

Tá Oifigeach Pleanála Teanga nua uainn do Ghaeltacht na nDéise agus tá cabhair uainn chun an scéal a scaipeadh. Má tá aithne agaibh ar dhuine ar bith leis an fuinneamh & an paisean ceart chun tabhairt faoin ról, cuir iad inár dtreo le bhur dtoil. CV & eolas: [email protected] roimh 20/12/24. GRMA.

Ri fhaighinn a-nise/ Out now clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...