Congratulations to Francesca Guido and Paula Harrison, who were conferred with their PhDs in Classics yesterday.

"Designing sustainable Digital Editions." This is a lightly revised version of a talk I gave at the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in Maynooth on 26 May 2025. Many thanks to Nora White for the invitation and to the audience for discussion and feedback. www.pmoran.ie/posts/sustai...

Funding for 4 year PhD in Uni Galway, on project ‘Connect 4: Uncovering Knowledge Exchange within the Early Medieval Insular World through Linguistic Idiosyncrasies in Obscure Letters, Words, Phrases, and Texts’, directed by Ciaran Arthur. Deadline 20 June. www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...

Pádraic Moran (@padraicmoran.bsky.social Uni Galway) gave a brilliant keynote about "Designing sustainable digital editions" at the Digital Epigraphy workshop in Maynooth today. Very appropriate to all the work that we are doing in digital humanities projects, and a huge amount of food for thought.

⏰️ 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

📢 Clear your calendars! 🗓 On June 16th I'm hosting a day of talks on the Irish manuscripts in St Gall! The stellar line-up includes special guests from the Stiftsbibliothek. Tickets are free! Reserve here 👉 stgallmanuscripts.eventbrite.ie @historytcd.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #medievalsky

PhD funding available on a very exciting project for a medieval Latinist.

"Designing sustainable Digital Editions", Dr Pádraic Moran, University of Galway. 17.00-18.00, Tuesday 27 May 2025. Iontas seminar room 1.33, Maynooth University. All welcome - no booking required.

Digital Epigraphy Workshop coming soon in Dublin (TCD) and Maynooth (MU)! #Photogrammetry #RTI and #EpiDoc hands-on training over 3 days. Booking essential for workshop as limited places (note: keynotes do not require booking). Programme & Eventbrite link: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

Postdoc opportunity for a Latinist on the project "An English Teacher in Paris: John of Garland’s Dictionarius and Medieval Language Learning": blog.westminster.ac.uk/jog/. Job details: vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/...

Day of public lectures on 16 June 2025 to celebrate the return of the St Gall manuscripts to Ireland as part of the fabulous exhibition Words on the Wave hosted by the National Museum of Ireland from the end of May onwards. See: earlyirishhands.ie/st-gallen/

It’s a dream come true for me to talk about Irish scholars at the Carolingian court in @niamhwycherley.bsky.social's Medieval Irish History Podcast😊. open.spotify.com/episode/3bLL... Also had a fantastic time in Maynooth for the recording @researchireland.bsky.social @galwayclassics.bsky.social

Thrilled to see my little review of Pádraig Ó Riain's A Dictionary of Irish Saints (2nd edition) in Saturday's edition of the Irish Times @historyatgalway.bsky.social @galwayclassics.bsky.social

Nicole Volmering @medievalireland.bsky.social featured on the RTÉ website today! Preserving Dublin's cló gaelach (Gaelic type) street signs. www.rte.ie/video/id/240...

Post fógraithe do Léachtóir le Gaeilge (An Léann Ceilteach), lánaimseartha, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Tuilleadh eolais: féach www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/ agus "Academic Vacancies". [Job for Lecturer in Irish (Celtic Studies) at the University of Galway.]

DH developer job: if you are a software/web developer who is interested in culture, arts, heritage and humanities generally, please come and work with us! We have lots of interesting projects & enthusiastic people. See under "Administrative Vacancies" here: www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/

Just came across this treasure-trove of 70+ public lectures published by the Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications...

Many thanks to Adrian Ó Dubhghaill for today's DH Research Group presentation on semantic similarity in Irish glosses. Next up: Wed 2 April 12pm (online), Luis García-Vela (Zaragoza), Nodegoat and LEXPRO for DH Research: An Intro. Register for Zoom: www.universityofgalway.ie/digital-semi...

We're experimenting with network graphs for manuscripts in Irish script on mira.ie. Each edge (line) here is a MS—black edges indicate primary movement (from a place of origin), pink edges secondary movement (from a place of provenance). Nodes marked "L" are modern libraries. MSS were highly mobile!

❗Reminder: Tomorrow at 5:30 PM in DIAS, Michael Clarke will explore medieval poetry & Celtic spirituality in the 'Song of Amairgen'. 📖✨ #MedievalPoetry #IrishHistory #MedievalIreland

A BIG Og(h)am event coming up: Professor Katherine Forsyth's inaugural lecture at the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social Wednesday 26 March 17:30 Registration at: www.eventbrite.com/cc/humanitie...

"100 Years of Leaving Certificate Greek and Latin"—a one-day conference at Trinity College, Dublin, 12 April 2025, to mark the Leaving Cert's centenary. I will be speaking on "An Irish curriculum for teaching Greek and Latin?" www.eventbrite.ie/e/100-years-...

Taitníonn clúdach an eagráin nua de Chomhar go mór liom! (Mark Wickham an dearthóir.) comhar.ie/iris/

Words on the Wave is a historic exhibition of Irish manuscripts from St Gall, Switzerland, coming on loan to the National Museum. Some of these will return to Ireland for the first time in 1,000 years! Opens 30 May 2025. Further info to follow… www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum... mira.ie/index.php?pa...

Peritia 35 (2024) is published. See TOC in images attached and here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-.... Soon to go online here: www.brepolsonline.net/loi/perit . I have now taken over as co-editor, with Immo Warntjes and Máirín MacCarron. Enquiries from potential contributors welcome!

Túr Bháibil… Is ar aistriúchán litríochta sa nGaeilge atá an t-eagrán is deireanaí d'iris Comhar dírithe. Tá alt scríofa agam ann faoin ilteangachas in Éireann sa luath-tréimhe, go háirithe sa saol scolártha agus litríochta. comhar.ie/iris/85/3/tu...

"Latin's legacy in the Irish language"—the original version (director's cut) of an article recently published at RTÉ Brainstorm: www.pmoran.ie/posts/latin-.... (Image credit: see mira.ie/47.)

A learner of Irish today might easily assume that familiar-sounding words are recent borrowings from English, but that is far from true. Many are borrowings from Latin and have been part of the Irish language for well over 1,000 years. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Welcome Dr Sudhansu Dala Bas to the GLOSSAM project team (glossam.ie/team). Sudhansu will be working on network analysis and linked data for early medieval manuscripts. Her work will also dovetail with the efforts of the Databases of Early Latin Manuscripts network (delm-net.github.io).

I will be giving a talk in Cork @ucc.ie on bilingual Greek–Latin Irish manuscripts this Wed 19 Feb 5.15 ORB 2.02. Many thanks to the Seminar for Ancient and Medieval Studies for the Invitation. This will be an expanded version of a paper I gave at the @scs-dias.bsky.social Tionól last November.

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

"Advice for research presentations": When I was a PhD student, I came across some very practical advice from Danuta Shanzer for presenters at conferences. I read it many times and found it very useful. Here is my own version, which I hope might be useful to somebody. www.pmoran.ie/posts/advice...

'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739). Beyond Mission' has been out for a month now. Very grateful for the support and the encouraging feedback I've received so far from friends & colleagues. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The programme for the Leeds International Medieval Congress is out now. My project GLOSSAM is participating in a series of four sessions on "Irish Learning in the Carolingian Age", all on Wed 9 July. Lots of great papers from Galway colleagues elsewhere too! www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2025/pro...

The Karlsruhe Bede in Context: Cod. Aug. Perg. 167 – The Making of a Ninth Century Manuscript. 6-7 February 2025. Trinity College Dublin. earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-be...

Since I had trouble finding any "brief introduction to XML and TEI" that was either brief or genuinely introductory, I decided to write one myself: www.pmoran.ie/posts/guide-...

This year I participated in a documentary with @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social about early medieval Ireland: "The Land of Slaves and Scholars". If you're based in Ireland, you can watch it on RTÉ Player: www.rte.ie/player/movie.... I hope people find it interesting. /1

Gloss Corpus (www.glossing.org/glosscorpus/) is new a platform for collaborative, open-access publishing and analysis of glosses on medieval manuscripts. Each contributor receives full credit, with a unique DOI and persistent URL, and will have the option of peer-review. Built on open standards.

The @uniofgalway.bsky.social 2025 Hardiman PhD scholarship scheme is now open. Closing date: 7 Feb 2025. These scholarships are a wonderful opportunity to pursue fully-funded postgraduate research. Want to chat about a potential project? Drop us an email. 🗃️ www.universityofgalway.ie/hardiman-sch...

Interested in Spanish Palaeography? Join us for our @ies-sas.bsky.social online course! We'll cover everything from Visigothic to Gothic scripts 🤓, led by @manuelmunoz.bsky.social @jobetodoli.bsky.social , and yours truly. Expect lots of fun—and some seriously challenging scripts!

Hardiman PhD scholarships at University of Galway: €25K for four years, with fees covered. See Classics/medieval research strengths here: www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res.... Deadline is 7 Feb 2025, but contact us ASAP if interested! Scheme details: www.universityofgalway.ie/hardiman-sch...

Databases of Early Latin Manuscripts (DELM): next online meeting, 13 Dec 2024, to discuss Linked Open Data and data sharing for Latin MS descriptions. All welcome! delm-net.github.io/meetings.html

The December 2024 issue of Language & History is now available! After 5 years at the helm of L&H, this is my last one – it’s been a privilege to read so much great work on the history of linguistics. Wishing all the best to our new Lead Editor, Prof. Rachel Mairs! www.tandfonline.com/toc/ylhi20/c...

"The Land of Slaves and Scholars", tonight 10.15pm RTE1. www.instagram.com/reel/DCoeBwy...