‘hart y uart y uvrt nadolyc’ ‘beautiful to a bard his Christmas table’ Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (fl. 1155-1200) in his elegy for Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170) 🎄

The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-13.00 & 14.00-16.30 Monday & Tuesday & until 12 noon on Wednesday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view. For more information about upcoming closures, visit www.ria.ie/library.

🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁 Cisalpine Celtic literacy Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/). 📖

2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026 Deadline: 5 January 2026 www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v... @dias.ie

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

'Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...' in Scots: The wind is snell the nicht, It forfluther’s the sea’s white hair. A dreid-na the rinnin o the Sheuch By fell kemps frae Noroway. [Old Irish isn't one of my languages but pleased with forfluther for fo-fúasna.] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_ache...

hremn, m.n: raven. (H’REH-mun / ˈhrɛ-mən) Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Calendrier l'avent d'enluminures médiévales #calavhist, jour 12 ! Un magnifique dragon bleu pour mettre de la couleur dans votre week-end ! Harley 1662 f. 104, manuscrit copié vers 1470

Today’s the final day to submit your abstracts!

Stop press! I have a new entry in the “worst medieval attempt to draw an elephant” competition! 🐘

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

#EpigraphyTuesday This small vase, inscribed with the twenty-six letters of the #Etruscan alphabet, may have been a container for ink. The head acts as a stopper and could be attached to the bird’s body by a cord. The missing tail no doubt curved downward to form a third foot.

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

Calendrier l'avent d'enluminures médiévales #calavhist, jour 7 ! Jonas avalé par la baleine... Bible Porta, enluminée vers 1275, Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire, Lausanne, f. 351

This is the feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, d. 397. 🕯️ BNF lat. 1732 is an early-8th-c. Uncial MS of several of his works. The headings to the various items have lovely colors and some fun beasties. The Uncial is very mannered: look at the loops on those As! #medievalsky

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian language

Peacocks are great, but how about this absolute unit from NLW Peniarth MS 28, a Latin copy of the Welsh laws? 🐖

Calendrier de l'avent d'enluminures médiévales, jour 1. Une petite marginalia (= dessin dans une marge de manuscrit) représentant... un lapin dans une camisole de force 😅?? BNF, ms. Francais 95, fol. 138v ; un roman arthurien copié vers 1270-1290.

Reminder: The deadline for our CFP is coming up on the 12th of December! Papers on any aspect of Celtic Studies in English or any Celtic language are welcome from current students and recent graduates. More information and the submission forms can be found here: linktr.ee/celticstuden...

"Here Frank, cad atá, you know, REALLY Cornach?" "Cén fáth?" "Don alt seo amárach faoi Kernewek." "Pastaetha." "Bingo Frank, sin an fáth go dtuilleann tusa na big bucks."

This is the feast of Andrew the Apostle and, this year, the first Sunday in Advent. 🕯️ For his day, here is the Old English prose life of St. Andrew from CCCC 198. With bonus Tremulous Hand of Worcester! #medievalsky

Bígí linn | Join us for the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture, the final Early Irish research seminar this year, Thursday 4 December at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS. *Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker (Trinity College Dublin) Fáilte roimh chách!

📚 Second Acallam publication alert this week! 🔔 Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's latest article, "A Reassessment of the Manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a New Version of Acallam na Senórach", was just published in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 72 (2025).

Foilseachán nua - New publication 1 Bodach an Chóta Lachtna Eagrán nua de scéal Fiannaíochta Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh (Coláiste na Tríonóide BÁC) a chuir in eagar. shop.dias.ie/product/boda... @dias.ie

A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi

🚨Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture next Thursday! 🦅 Dr Emma Nic Chárthaigh (University College Cork) will speak on "Intertextual weavings in the Colloquy between Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill". 🗓️ 27th November, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 6pm 🔗 www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...

Gwefl son of Gwastad: when he was sad he would let his one lip droop down to his navel and the other would be a cowl on his head. Gỽeuyl mab gỽestat. y dyd y bei drist y gollyngei y lleill weuyl idaỽ y waeret hyt y uogel. ar llall a uydei yn pennguch ar y penn.

Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

@scs-dias.bsky.social Tionól 2025 Day 1, was opened by Olly Dorgan-Hughes @grainneoga.bsky.social with an extended talk about her new edition of the Middle Irish "Dúan in chethrachat cest" (The Poem of 40 Questions), with a number of new insights. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Chéad lá an Tionóil, 2025. First day of Tionól. www.dias.ie/2025/10/22/t... #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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. 🧵

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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...)