The Lewis Chessmen These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀 From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

As long as there have been children, there have been toys. As it's the #LateLateToyShow we thought we'd share some of our favourite toys in the @nmireland.bsky.social Many toys through history copy adult life, like this wonderful toy boat and sword from Viking Dublin #archaeology #SpéirGhorm

Environmental DNA evidence of settlement in Iceland from c. 810 rather than the 870s - and much more besides. Summarised in the New Scientist but that's behind a paywall. Here's the original research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article by Liverpool PhD Dr Eddie Meehan "Identity, exemplarity and the ideal king in early medieval Ireland" open access academic.oup.com/histres/adva... #history #leadership #ireland #medievalsky

@bdsmovement.bsky.social have published a statement on #isac2025 Warsaw and the organisation’s normalisation of Israel’s ongoing apartheid and genocide against Palestinians bdsmovement.net/news/palesti... #🏺

Today's Knowledge Commons free download "Viking camps in Ninth-Century Ireland: Sources, Locations and Interactions" works.hcommons.org/records/ee0z... #medievalsky #history #archaeology #vikings #ireland #dublin

Due to popular demand the "Words on the Wave" exhibition will extend it's run until Monday 27th Oct. Don't miss your last chance to see these unique early medieval treasures at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

The good folk at BBC's Radio Orkney interviewed me last week about the #SagaoftheEarlsofOrkney which will be available in bookshops here this coming week. You can listen to it here at 17'30" in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Can I convert those who have never quite managed to get through it???

Our @downham.bsky.social recently had a chat with the @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social team about her upcoming Penguin Classics volume on the Viking Age and other viking matters. Listen to the podcast at vikingology.substack.com/p/catching-u... #vikingsky #medievalsky #booksky

A 28 mm high amber gaming piece from Harby in Ljungby parish, Kalmar county. Probably from the Viking Period, based on style. Found as a stray find in 1873, now in the collections of Kalmar County Museum (inventory no. 904:1:3). More here: digitaltmuseum.org/021021168191... #FindsFriday

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #🏺 #archaeology @willdalrymple.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/live/LvSpJuO... Live-streaming now

Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy! #MedievalSky #SpéirGhorm www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...

Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...

Exciting news- our team is expanding! We have an opportunity for a 4-year funded PhD in the field of Old Norse-Viking Studies, working on artistic and literary representations of the Vikings. More information and to apply, visit www.ucc.ie/en/norsemap/.... Closing date: 10th of November, 2025

Early medieval job in Copenhagen! employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

📢 The Denis Donoghue Award 2025 is now open for applications! 🎓 For NUI undergrads (FT/PT) from under-represented groups 💶 €2,000–€5,000 available ⏰ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025 Generously funded by author Emma Donoghue in memory of her father, Denis. Apply now 👉 www.nui.ie/awards/Grant...

6/6 The Lough Kinale Shrine reconstructed! Ireland’s oldest & largest Book Shrine was broken in the medieval period & the pieces left in a lake Now, Discovery Programme has used 3D modelling to digitally reconstruct it with @nmireland.bsky.social for #wordsonthewave exhibition: @heritagecouncil.ie

Vancouver Zoo has a sea otter cam in case you need to know this. www.youtube.com/live/9mg9PoF...

'Those who pretend that historical disciplines are not political are aiding and abetting the use of archaeology as the “ideological scaffolding” of apartheid' @luxmea.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This whole story is so telling of the weaselly ways the Irish Government negotiates its complicity with the genocide in Gaza. They know there is popular appetite for action but they evade and obfuscate, terrified of the US reaction to unilateral moves on Israel. thecurrency.news/articles/200...

Missed the first part of David MCullagh’s new documentary on De Valera? www.rte.ie/player/serie... Why not listen back to his lecture on De Valera’s Ireland, part of our 2021 Centenary Dev Talk series ➡️ www.nui.ie/DevTalks/Dev...

New piece by @emerp.bsky.social and myself in Rundale today: Early Medieval Law and a Call to Action for Palestine www.rundale.org/2025/09/01/e...

Lots here for Viking folks - new aDNA evidence for several infectious diseases among Viking-Age populations in Scandinavia, including malaria, leprosy and louse-borne relapsing fever. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A step to the right direction. Bring them all in! www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A piece in The Conversation, contextualising our results from the Bedale hoard theconversation.com/vikings-were... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social @bgs.ac.uk

I've signed this - it's imperative that archaeologists challenge the uses of the past to justify and perpetuate genocide, and to apply our reseasrch and teaching expertise to critique, investigate and challenge those conducting genocide.

The department of Antiquity, Religion and Classics at the U. of Ottawa is granting this genocide denier a platform in 2025, a year we've seen Israel continue to starve + slaughter Gazans by the hundreds, daily, and genocide experts and Israeli human rights orgs alike have all declared it to be one.

Final episode of series 1, Archaeology and Geography is up now! We talk with Laura McAtackney and Paddy Bresnihan open.spotify.com/episode/3Hom... @emerp.bsky.social

We are honored to have the endorsement of Professor Mahmoud Hawari of Bethlehem University, Palestine, for the Archaeologists Against Apartheid campaign in support of the Palestinian people. forms.gle/m8De7pW2oG4K... #archaeology #eaa2025 #🏺

Episode 5, Sociology, is up now! open.spotify.com/episode/0Ez0... We talk with Su Khoo and David Landy. @emerp.bsky.social

Archaeologists. There is still time to sign this open letter to EAA.

⚠️ Seminar announcement: in semester 2 of the new academic year (Feb-May 2026), I will be teaching a 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 (SG648) in the Dept. of Early Irish (@ceilteachomn.bsky.social) at Maynooth University. Guests from outside are very welcome. More info ⬇️

An exciting day of papers for those interested in early medieval charters (on 9 September). If you’d like to attend, do send me a message!

How brilliant is this www.weregildcalculator.com

Open access e-book "Good Thoughts on Folklore and Mythology. Festschrift in Honour of Terry Gunnell" two volumes, one on #folklore and one on #mythology #medievalsky trivent-publishing.eu/104-old-nors...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

This week's @afp-ire.bsky.social podcast episode has been delayed. Now is your chance to catch up on the previous episodes! academicsforpalestine.org/2025/07/21/t... @emerp.bsky.social

🌟MOTHER IS CALLING! 🌟 Delighted to announce a new online research group, MATER: Medievalists Against The Extreme Right, under the @errnetwork.bsky.social umbrella! If you were at @themamoconf.bsky.social & enjoyed my workshop, you might find this new venture interesting. Do email me to sign up. 🗃️

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Journal of Medieval History we’ve asked eight distinguished historians each to use an article from the journal’s first five years as a jumping off point to discuss historiographical trends. @tandfresearch.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/5CRc... Dr Brendan C. Browne and Dr John Reynolds from talk to us about International Law and the lack of any law-in-action, the metaphorisation of the term decolonial, their experiences living and teaching in Palestine and much more. #gaza #law #academia

In episode 3 of @AcademicsforPalestine podcast series we delve deep into international law and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, with @brendanbrown and @seanmacr.bsky.social. @stephenhewer.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a...

Registration is now open for conference on the manuscript known as the "Book of Lecan", collaboratively organized by @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social. Taking place 2-3 October at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin: shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...