Olly Dorgan-Hughes @grainneoga.bsky.social wrote an MA about "Dúan in chethrachat cest: a Middle Irish poem of questions" under my supervision last academic year; her conferal was last week. She will present an extended version of her talk next week at the Tionól of @scs-dias.bsky.social. /4

TOMORROW! Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Maynooth for an exciting new two-day conference, put on by the @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! See below for more information! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/school-celti...

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

The upcoming postgrad conference *Widame in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie has a very interesting & diverse programme ⬇️. Two of my students, Paul Le Meur-Bouthemy & Olly Dorgan-Hughes will be speaking. Registration at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Graduated with an MA in Medieval Irish Studies from @ceilteachomn.bsky.social today. A lovely day to finish a wonderful year. Even got to see Séamus! @mulibrarycat.bsky.social

My MA student 🥂 Olly Dorgan-Hughes 🎆 was conferred a Master of Arts for her "New edition of Dúan in chethrachat cest and its glosses", a perplexing MIr. question poem. Olly's dedicated research was so fantastic that she is now turning it now into an article. Superb job @grainneoga.bsky.social!

Clár Tionól na bliana seo! Programme for Tionól 2025! 14-15 Samhain/November. #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie www.dias.ie/celt/

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...

This is the feast of Gall, d. ca. 646, pre-founder of the Abbey of St. Gall, which was founded in the 8c on the site of his hermitage. As you might imagine, the Stiftsbibliothek has many copies of his Life, most in the version by Walafrid Strabo. CSG 562 is the most splendid of those.

The CFP for our 2026 conference is officially OPEN! We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.

Heere ys the booke of the humoral and elemental values of the Teenaged Mutante Turtles Who Are Ninjas: Michelangelo - Ayre - Sanguine - Springtyme Raphael - Fyre - Choleric - Somer Donatello - Earthe - Melancholic - Autumn Leonardo - Watir - Phlegmatic - Wynter

grymettan, wk.v: to roar, bellow; to cry out, howl. (GRUE-met-tahn / ˈgry-mɛt-tan) Image: Marginal lion in the Rothschild Canticles; Flanders, c. 1300; Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS 404 (always hard to find), f. 115v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Beidh *Widame (Prótai-Cheiltis “fuaireamar amach”), comhdháil do scoláirí iarchéime sa Léann Ceilteach, ar siúl 7-8 Samhain 2025 i seomra 1.33 IONTAS in @maynoothuniversity.ie. Sceideal na comhdhála agus clárúchán ar fáil anseo: buff.ly/b3GjydF Cláraigh faoin 10 Deireadh Fómhair 2025.

Delighted to have this post published by the @irishhumanities.bsky.social, where I discuss some of the terminology surrounding disability in medieval Ireland! www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

Today is the feast of Adomnán of Iona, d. 704. Here are 3 copies of the same text, the opening of the preface to Adomnán's Life of Columba: Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek Gen. 1, possibly copied in Adomnán's lifetime; & St. Gall 555 & Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 6341, both later 9c. 🧵

Loafs O:

The power of satire in medieval Ireland: “Verbal blades have cut beneath his skin, blood has been aroused on his cheek [and] face, so that it is evident in his countenance that he has been wounded by words.” - Bretha Nemed Toísech, trans. Liam Breatnach, “Satire, Praise and the Early Irish Poet”

fun bit of dindṡenchas in NLI MS G 1, f. 57r: “Saxain .i. ainm do chloich fil innte conid uaithe aderair Saxuin”. Not sure what stone they’re talking about, though. (Image from ISOS: www.isos.dias.ie/NLI/NLI_MS_G...)

Bígí linn!

A clever bit of artistry in this manuscript, making it appear like a dog has gone through one side of the page and out the other - 15th century, Kraków, MNK 3025 I, pp. 469-470

"Kensa Broadhurst, of the Institute of Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter, has written a book in which she argues that the language clung on through the 19th century, spoken by some working-class Cornish people as well as academics and others who saw value in preserving it."

For the September 2025 LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month, the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social looks at Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 P 10 iii, containing a compilation of texts on fevers and many beautiful illuminations. Read more here! 👇📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

A scribe’s effort to correct an omission. The words that were accidentally left out are pulled along by one man who passes them to another who waits between the fourth and fifth lines to receive them - c. 1300, English Book of Hours, Walters Ms. W.102, f. 39v

Agus Gaeil na tíre le dul chun sráide ar an 20ú Méan Fómhair fuair mé deis labhairt le cúpla aíonna ar na mallaibh faoi dhúshláin atá rompu ina gceantaracha féin ó thaobh na Gaeilge de (nascanna thíos)

Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live: ogham.celt.dias.ie Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.

New Pangur Bán panel available now! It’s difficult to photograph both the light white cat and the deep dark books, so here are a few detail shots www.aknitomy.com/shop/p/pangu...

Sproingggggg! A bunny hops in the bottom margin of f. 311r, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/3HKjIyM

Favourite Breton manuscripts cont'd: The Saint Gatien Gospels (Paris, BNF MS NAL 1587). Long associated with a Breton centre, the Saint Gatien Gospels are distinct for the rich illuminations and the script, which is a weird (I say that lovingly) and unique version of Insular Half-Uncial

Glagolitic! On a tram!

🎆 LAUNCH 🎆 The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project have the pleasure of launching the revised & updated 𝗢𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟯𝗗 database Where: Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie When: 12 Sept 2025, 15:30 @maynoothuniversity.ie @uofglasgow.bsky.social in collaboration with @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie

ya-aš-aš-ša MUNUS.LUGAL

In honor of #InternationalDogDay 🐾

Y beddau a’u gwlych y glaw prisiau isel eu haddaw mor hael oedd asda aelaw

Harsh but fair

Good night all.

Channeling its inner Boromir, a rabbit toots a horn in the bottom margin of f. 308v, Ms. Codex 724, a 13th century illuminated Bible #DrolleryDonnerstag 🔗: https://bit.ly/432C9Fi

Royal Irish Academy, 2-3 Octover shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

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...

Have you ever seen a book made entirely of silk? One item getting a lot of reading room attention recently is this "Livre de Prières." This book was manufactured with the Jacquard process, which relied on perforated punch cards to operate a loom, and is considered a precursor to early programming.

micel, adj: great in size, in quantity, or in a metaphorical sense. (MIH-chell / ˈmɪ-tʃɛl) Image: Liber de natura rerum; France (Abbaye de Saint-Amand), 13th century; Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320, f. 59v. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Hello to new followers! The Celtic Hagiography Network is a professional scholarly network started by some early career researchers, focused on the study of hagiography composed in Latin and the Celtic languages.

me when a medieval scribe makes an eye-skip error vs when i make one

Ieuan ap Sulien, likening the learning of his father to golden treasure in 11th century Wales: “And staying [in Ireland] contentedly for ten years he accumulated a store (of knowledge), immense in its precious weight. Then, storing this treasure in his shrewd mind he thereafter came home, …

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok” Ok well I asked Sappho and she said ……. ……. ..[b]osom

It was a pleasure to discuss Seán's research on the latest episode of Ní hansae! It was very inspiring to see the "behind the scenes" of a historian's work. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3IFR...

Go raibh maith agaibh ‪@irishexaminer.bsky.social! Great review of our Research Podcast "Ní hansae". New episode coming out this Friday 27 June, so keep an eye on this space 👀

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2025 is London, British Library MS Add. 15582, completed in Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1563 & then brought to Scotland. It contains texts on regimen, cautery & this image of a ‘Phlebotomy Man’: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...