New publication out today with @marissawillcox.bsky.social : “Feminist fabulation as refusal: Christine Yahya’s @pink_bits”. We examine how her illustrations reclaim space for bodies often censored www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #mediastudies #algorithm #feminism #fabulation #digitalmedia

'Ireland: Land of 1,000 Welcomes?' will take place this Friday, 19th Sept. as part of Culture Night 2025 activities. It will be held in the AHI Seminar Rm 1.33, First floor of Iontas from 5:30 - 7pm. For any further information please contact [email protected]

Registration closes 7 Sept. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 Sept. @maynoothuniversity.ie Please share widely. @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social

@maynoothuniversity.ie & @kildarelibrary.bsky.social are thrilled to announce @aingealaflannery.bsky.social as Writer-in-Residence. Aingeala is an award-winning writer, journalist, & broadcaster. It is a great pleasure to welcome Aingeala back to Maynooth! @mu-alumni.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social

Residency alert! In partnership w/ @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, we're seeking a Writer-in-Residence for 2026. Pls spread the word and consider applying to come and work with us! 🙏 @maynoothuniversity.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

www.con-telegraph.ie/2025/09/12/o... @ndefaoite.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Prof. Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social (Maynooth @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social) spoke about the long life of ogham in manuscripts up to the 19th century, e.g. in @rialibrary.bsky.social. Katherine & I concluded the programme of 1 1/2 hours with highlights from the MANY... /6

Registration is now open for the IHA annual conference @ucdhumanities.bsky.social on 4-5th Sep 2025. Attendance is free - booking essential. Programme & further details 👇 www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Finally, a huge thank you to Oisin Ralph (@oisinralph) for creating our incredible poster! [8/8]

We are delighted to announce that the Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November 2025 in Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s. [1/8]

Join Dr Francesca Placanica on Friday, 5th September for the 'Embodied Monologues Symposium: Cathy Berberian & Theatrical Imagination'. Celebrating the work of the American mezzo-soprano known as “the Callas of the Avant-Garde”. For full event details: www.embodiedmonologues.com/symposium/ca...

I learnt so much from this talk, thanks so much for sharing your expertise, @egeertsphd.bsky.social - you made the @muahi.bsky.social summer school metaphysically and materially fantastic!

Recently I spent an intensive two weeks teaching a postgraduate summer school on intersectional humanities at @muahi.bsky.social - it was an amazing couple of weeks. Over the next few days I will share some student reflections on the learning experience #intersectionality #humanities #postgraduate

In this short video, Rachael from @waynestateresearch.bsky.social offers her thoughts on our @muahi.bsky.social summer school. Rachael is completing her PhD in writing at the moment. #intersectionality #europe #postgraduate #maynooth

The team at @muahi.bsky.social were very grateful to have Minister for Further and Higher Education, James Lawless TD, launch the inaugural Intersectional Humanities Summer School on Monday 14th July, along with Dr Mike O'Malley @maynoothuniversity.ie, and welcome our international participants.

Maynooth's own Dr Oona Frawley recently published 'This Interim Time' featured in the Times' Best Books for Summer 2025. A well deserved acknowledgment! Get a copy & read.

Join Professor Dónal Hassett for 'The Veteran in the Colonial Archive' conference, as part of the COLVET ERC Project, taking place in the AHI on Wednesday, 25th June 2025. Schedule and details attached. Registration is required and please note, this is a hybrid conference.

Seven of the 20 contributors to the volume are present at the current workshop: Sharon Arbuthnot, Deborah Hayden, Joseph Flahive, Sarah Baccianti, David Stifter, Siobhán Barrett, Conan Doyle @conandoyle.bsky.social. /4

...edited by Deborah Hayden and Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, the proceedings of two conferences stretching from 2018-2021. More info at @brepols.net: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.... /3

Siobhán Barrett @siobhbar.bsky.social talked about "Máel Eachlainn Mac an Leagha's Concise and Beneficial Compendium", also part of LEIGHEAS. One of the highpoints of these two days in the evening: the launch "Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions",... /2

…from Dept. of Early Irish (@ceilteachomn.bsky.social) at @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social. Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social introduced her @researchireland.ie-funded Laureate project LEIGHEAS. I spoke about the "Lexicography and Etymology of Medieval Irish Medical Terminology. /2

⏰️ Final keynote of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social 🗣 Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social (University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social) 📜 Designing Sustainable Digital Editions 💻 Slides: pmoran.ie/maynooth2025.pdf

A deeply personal research collaboration between Dr Declan Monaghan and PhD Scholar Jennifer Brady sees their project giving a space and a voice for adoptees' stories and a resource to learn about their early lives in a respectful, private way.

So grateful for this generous and thoughtful review of This Interim Time. 🙏🙏 @irishexaminer.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Day 2 of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social. The facilitators @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and the crowd of students. Funded by @researchireland.ie... /1

Announcing 5 Access Scholarships for the Intersectional Humanities Summer School 2025 running this July 14th- 25th. Scholarships are a full fee waiver, worth €3,000. All the details for each of the scholarship are available on the AHI website. 🗓️ Deadline this Friday, May 30th.

The final preliminary programme for the 2nd Cisalpine Celtic Colloquium in @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social coming Thursday and Friday. More info: lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/Colloqu...

Assistant Professor/Lecturer Post in any area of psychology in the Department of Psychology, Maynooth University (Fixed Term, 2 years). Sunday, 22nd June 2025. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

2nd Cisalpine Celtic Colloquium 29-30 May 2025 Room 1.33, Iontas Building @muahi.bsky.social Dept.of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social Maynooth University All welcome; zoom available More info: lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/Colloqu...

This will be fantastic - saw them speak at Arts and Minds festival last week 👏🏽👏🏾👏🏼

Prof Elisa Roma (Uni Pavia) will be speaking on "Old Irish in the Pavia Verbs Database" 22 May, 16h DIAS Lecture Room Organisors: DiⒶgnostic Project (@researchireland.ie), @scs-dias.bsky.social, Dept. of Early Irish (@celticstudiesmu.bsky.social), Mind & Matter in Middle Ages @muahi.bsky.social

Really pleased that there's an extract of This Interim Time in today's @irishtimes.com weekend magazine: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social

Our colleague @oonaf.bsky.social's new book has been published with @lilliputpress.bsky.social and an extract was in this weekend's Irish Times ⬇️😊

MUAHI congratulates Dr Sarah Arnold, from our Department of Media Studies, for winning a Research Ireland New Foundations grant on “Ireland’s missing film heritage: Early animation and the work of Flora Kerrigan”. We can’t wait to hear more about Flora! #media #Ireland #animation #research

#CFP: International Conference “Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination” (26 – 27 February 2026, University of Tübingen). Deadline for abstracts soon aproaching: 30 April 2025! Full info here: www.asle.org/calls-for-pa... #envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecolit #planthum #ecology #queerstudies

Summer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/ #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI

👥 Want to get out to more #GLAMA, #GIS, or #DigitalHumanities events in 2025? We keep a list of upcoming conferences here: humap.me/blog-community/eve... Have an event you'd like us to add? Comment, DM, or email us at [email protected] and we'll add it to the list.

Please order in this collection for your library! It’s out now with Edinburgh UP in the New Materialism series. #methods #feminism #philosophy #affirmation

New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

This week, the #BROKENSONG team enjoyed a very good time studying the medieval fragments and books preserved in the Worcester Cathedral Library. #medievalbluesky @erc.europa.eu @worcestercathedral.bsky.social

"Words on the Wave" in @nmireland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2025, brought to you by the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social, is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G8, a ‘pocket-size medical encyclopaedia’ with a Kildare connection: 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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

Do most people understand how inflation works? That drops in the inflation rate don't mean drops in prices? 🤔 No. And misunderstanding is significantly associated with vote choice in 2024. Thanks to @verasight.bsky.social and @peterenns.bsky.social for letting me field this question 🙏

📢 Call for Abstracts I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in a special issue proposal of Citizenship Studies, tentatively titled “Posthumanism and Citizenship.” Deadline: 25 April 2025 For details: www.posthumanlab.org/cfa-citizens... #posthumanism #citizenship

Thrilled (& a bit terrified!) that this will be out soon. Grateful to all @lilliputpress.bsky.social, to @brianlangan.bsky.social for all of the support & encouragement, and to @jackflag.bsky.social for the gorgeous cover. 🙏 @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothenglish.bsky.social

For more on Irish medical manuscripts from Kildare, the home of the @researchireland.bsky.social LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social, see also our earlier blog here: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/irish-medica...

35th Conference of Irish Historians. Hosted by @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History. Theme 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'. Call for papers closes 31 March @muahi.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...

If you have not taken time to explore our research strengths, please do. There is some amazing work happening @muahi.bsky.social

Our brilliant colleague Paul Lynch has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the @unioflimerick.bsky.social. Paul is Distinguished Writing Fellow @maynoothuniversity.ie. Congratulations Paul! @muahi.bsky.social