Anyone in the Meath area: the @researchireland.ie 'Power & Patronage...' team* will be giving a talk on Thursday September 18th, 7.30pm, St Finnian's Parish Centre, Clonard, titled 'Clonard: residence of kings, school of saints'. Free entry. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie 1/2

If you cannot make the webinar tomo please email [email protected] for info on how to apply to Young Academy Ireland. We are seeking 'talented' ECRIs who want to work with others across disciplines & institutions on the island of Ireland for the betterment of society. Tx to @ria.ie for continued support.

Reupping this information session this Friday targeted at displaced scholar on joining Young Academy Ireland - we'd welcome applicants currently based in Northern Ireland! Maybe @cara1933.bsky.social could share in its network?

Link to the sign up for the displaced scholar info session is here! Maybe #speiregorm

Tomorrow evening, we are launching Old Irish: A Beginner’s Guide. Authored by Dr Rebecca Shercliff this volume offers a step‑by‑step introduction to the language and literature of medieval Ireland and is written with absolute beginners in mind. ‪@department-asnc.bsky.social‬

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!

New membership call for @yai.ie now open! Come and join our vibrant network of ECRIs working together for the benefit of society. Some of my YAI colleagues will hold an online info session on how to apply esp. for Scholars At Risk/Scholars from a Displaced background, 1–2pm, Friday 1st August.

Applications to the @yai.ie open soon. I would recommend eligible Irish-based scholars to apply, this is not only a formative experience (and you get to meet nice people!) but we are also trying to use our voices to advocate for better research practices and career development in Ireland.

Today we’ve turned a new illuminated page in the Irish Gospels of St Gall (Cod. Sang. 51). Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave 📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street 🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Last ep season 2! We chat to the erudite @elainepf.bsky.social re the Penitentials, some of the earliest written texts from the 'Insular world'. Back in Sept, have a lovely summer! Thanks all esp @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @researchireland.ie open.spotify.com/episode/3I9T...

I am very excited to be joining the 'Power and Patronage in Medieval Ireland' project at @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social as of today! I will be working with PI @niamhwycherley.bsky.social & PhD candidate @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social to help explain Clonard's place in the medieval Irish landscape.

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...

The much anticipated, incredible, 'Words on the Wave' exhibition opens in @nmireland.bsky.social today! FREE TO ALL. Can't make it? Listen to Matt Seaver & Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain on what makes it so special & about Irish connections w/Switzerland going back 1,400 years. open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...

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...

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...

If you can't afford to pay Trinity to see the Book of Leinster please remember that just up the road the equally rare medieval manuscripts in the RIA Library & the precious artefacts in the National Museum of Ireland (awesome St Gallen manuscripts exhibition opening May 30th) are all FREE to view!

If you need a break from doom and gloom try some castles with your doom and gloom! I'm a guest on @niamhwycherley.bsky.social The Medieval Irish History podcast this month! open.spotify.com/episode/5Up0...

ICYMI! A chatty overview/intro to Irish castles with the ace historian/archaeologist @vickymcalister.bsky.social @towsonu.bsky.social. Bar from being cool to look at/explore we discuss how new technology can reveal there is much more to castles than meets the eye. open.spotify.com/episode/5Up0...

Another topical #nuntastic RTÉ Brainstorm article from @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social: How Agnes of Clonard, Co. Meath, won protection from the Pope c.1195 & defended her monastery during the English conquest of Ireland. @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Double whammy — get to study in both @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social and @scs-dias.bsky.social as part of a presitigious @researchireland.bsky.social pathway project! Email [email protected] for further details.

One for your diary: Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture by David Stifter "Linguistic Contributions to a Model for the Celticisation of the Western Archipelago" Thursday 8 May, 17:00 Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge Register at: www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/event/8...

In the last years of her life, the outstanding Celticist Cecile O'Rahilly was working on her final project, a synthesis of the development of Táin Bó Cúailnge. Although at an advanced stage, it was misplaced for some 40 years but was recently rediscovered! I'll be talking about this & more tomorrow

Easter is always a good time to reflect on the majesty of Sitric Silkenbeard, King of Dublin, d.1042 (amongst other things of course — happy holidays to all those who celebrate! 🍫🐣🐰✝️) @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social

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...

Join us Thursday for our next Early Irish Research Seminar of the semester. 🗣 ‘The "Syncretic Process" in Early Insular Vernacular Literatures’. Dr Colin Ireland (UCD/Arcadia University) Thursday 3rd April, 5pm in the Iontas Building, Maynooth University.

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!

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...

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!! ☺️🎉🎉🎉🍾🎓

Maynooth University welcomed Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine, to campus on Wednesday for a public lecture, her first such engagement on a four-day visit to Ireland to raise awareness about the situation in Palestine. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-soci...

☘️🌤️Happy St Patrick's festival to all! Did you know that 3 days off lent to celebrate #stpatricksday around March 17th dates back to @least the 8th century!? To learn about this & much more have a listen to expert @elizabethadawson.bsky.social on our latest episode ☘️ open.spotify.com/episode/4TK3...

Festival of Palestinian Culture in @maynoothuniversity.ie 7-10 April. Culminates with 'Gig for Gaza' on Thursday 10th raising funds for The Sameer Project. linktr.ee/thesameerpro... Organised by AfP Maynooth + Maynooth BDS @afp-ire.bsky.social Details here: sites.google.com/view/maynoot...

A special #StPatricksDay episode of Dr. Niamh Wycherley's The Medieval Irish History Podcast with Dr Elizabeth Dawson discussing the stories of St Patrick and where they come from and how they developed in Irish history ☘️ open.spotify.com/episode/4TK3...

This week we bring you our very own @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social! On ‘soft power’, what is patronage, the #nuntastic Agnes, ‘An Caillech Mór’ (d.1196), St Mary’s monastery, Clonard, & the study of medieval Ireland. Tiago's work is funded by @researchireland.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1eEq...

Finally going to be interviewing producer & PhD researcher @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social! On the role of women as patrons, incl. Agnes of Clonard (d.1196), Sárnat of Kildare (fl. 7th century), & reflections on the study of medieval Irish history. Send us your questions! open.spotify.com/show/1Gq9yIx...

Job alert!! Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Happy Valentine's!❤️We are marking the occasion by exploring the life of heiress, mother, transregional noblewoman, Isabel de Clare, daughter of Aoife & Strongbow, wife of famous knight William Marshall. Thank you @jmarshallmed.bsky.social for the excellent interview! open.spotify.com/episode/3lE3...

Bonus episode out now. @colinveach.bsky.social talks in more detail about the contemporary written sources justifying the 'Anglo-Norman Invasion' and we reflect on modern scholars' approaches to 12th century Irish history. Gerald of Wales, Laudabiliter & more! open.spotify.com/episode/5Zmp...

For the saint that's in it today, the etymology of the name "Brigit": Modern Irish Bríd [ˈbʲrʲiːdʲ] < pre-reform Irish Brighid < Old Irish Brigit [ˈbʲrʲiɣʲədʲ] < Primitive Irish *Brigēddī [ˈbriɣɛːdːiː] < Proto-Celtic *Brigantī < Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥g̑ʰn̥tih₂- "high one, elevated one (fem.)". /1

It's nearly St Brigit's Day! So naturally we have an episode for you on ... the conquest of Ireland, 1169! Thanks to the brilliant (& patient!) @colinveach.bsky.social for explaining the English angle on the 'Anglo-Norman' Invasion. King Henry II, Strongbow & more. open.spotify.com/episode/1Gjz...

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...

This is such excellent news — congrats Chantal! Dr Kobel did a brilliant episode with us on the podcast recently about medieval Irish manuscripts, how they were made, the skills needed to study them, where you can see them, belt books, quills as weapons etc etc! open.spotify.com/episode/4Nzw...

Lecture in TCD 6th Feb at 7:30 on Brigit’s early female followers and how they may have reconciled their Christian ideals with the prevailing norms of Irish society (and what that says about adoption and adaption of wider European ideas).

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...

Senior Professor School of Celtic Studies position now open for applications. More information can be found on www.dias.ie/senior-profe... #DIASdiscovers

This was the 1st ep we recorded (not 1st aired). On Tiago's phone! & Clare generously spoke to us in her accomm in TCD before a seminar. Clare, we'll have to get you out to the studio @maynoothuni.bsky.social some day for the true podcast experience & treat you to some hospitality! Vikings part 2!?

Happy new year! To ease us into 2025 we have Dr Alexander O'Hara back for a very chill follow up episode on St Columbanus which focusses on the Irish monastic founder's own words and on his, let's say 'complicated' relationship with the Merovingians... open.spotify.com/episode/7sYK...

In our new ep. Prof. Liam Breatnach @diasdublin.bsky.social explains what the medieval Irish legal material, esp. the Senchas Már ('great tradition'), can tell us about society. We chat cats, polygamy, legal disputes, lost texts, inequality, what people ate & more! open.spotify.com/episode/10nf...

Incredibly uplifting evening w/some Dept of Early Irish crew @ StPats/MU carol concert. Mesmerised by the debut performance of 'Rétglu etir rind'. Huge congrats to @davidstifter.bsky.social, Ryan Molloy & the choirs. Hope all attending tonight have a wonderful time! On Youtube soon. Nollaig shona!

This Thursday in Maynooth! @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social

Everyone might be slowing down for the Christmas, but the semester continues at full pace @maynoothuni.bsky.social. Nearly there! Get in to the Christmas spirit AND learn about medieval history by listening back to our Christmas special from last year. ICYMI. open.spotify.com/episode/4sYX...