Léacht reachtúil na Scoile do 2025 SCS Statutory Lecture for 2025 Gregory Toner, QUB The historian at work in Lebor Gabála Friday 14 November UCD, Theatre R, Newman Building Mar chuid de Thionól 2025 / Part of Tionól 2025 www.dias.ie/2025/10/22/t... #DIASdiscovers @dias.ie

Read all about our oldest Gaelic manuscript held in the Russell Library @stpatsmaynooth.bsky.social as part of the LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie 📜

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for November 2025 is Maynooth, @mulibrary.bsky.social MS C110, containing an Irish translation of Arnaldus de Villanova’s Speculum medicinae completed in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork on 15 May 1414: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our project, which will produce editions of the earliest version of Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', the central Finn Cycle text from medieval Ireland. New software will also be developed to help in this work. 1/2

We are very excited to be joined on Thursday by Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) for our next CMS Research Seminar: 'The Place of History in the History of Place: Constructing the Literary Landscapes of Medieval Ireland'. We can't wait! #medievalsky #skystorians

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

✨ #6 of 85 Things About DIAS – Celtica Volume 1 In May 1946 Celtica, the peer-reviewed journal of the DIAS School of Celtic Studies made its first appearance. Covering linguistics, literature, manuscript studies, history, law, dialect studies & onomastics #DIASDiscovers #dias85 #85thingsaboutdias

Postgraduate conferrings in @maynoothuniversity.ie today: 🎆My (former) PhD student Dr Francesco Felici was officially conferred with the degree today for his thesis 🍾 "Now you're talking... Old Irish. Towards a conversational approach to teaching Old Irish". Huge congratulations, Francesco!

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!

Seolfar leabhar Fhionntáin, *An Ghaeilge i lár Bhéal Feirste*, Dé hAoine ag 13:00 agus stiúrfaidh sé siúlóid threoraithe i lár na cathrach Dé Sathairn ag 15:00. Gach eolas ar shuíomh an Oireachtais: www.antoireachtas.ie/oireachtas-n...

Beidh na mílte Gael ag triall ar Bhéal Feirste an deireadh seachtaine seo le haghaidh @oirnagaeilge.bsky.social. Féach an físeán seo a rinne an tOllamh Fionntán de Brún i Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge s'againne le @tuairisc.bsky.social faoi stair Ghaelach na cathrach. tuairisc.ie/fisean-blais...

Huge congratulations to all 4 of our MA in Medieval Irish Studies graduates @maynoothuniversity.ie today! Pictured here w/ Jenna Devanney, who wrote a fantastic thesis on ‘Anatomical Theories, Associated Pathologies & Osteoarchaeological Evidence for Trepanation in Early Ireland’. Well done all 👏🥳🎉

The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky! ➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars. 👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!

Duais eile ag Seán Ó Hoireabhárd de bharr a leabhair, The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Comhghairdeachas leis! Another prize goes to Seán Ó Hoireabhárd for his book, The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations to him! @hoireabhard.bsky.social @dias.ie

It is a great honour to be selected for the NUI Publication Prize for Irish History! Many thanks to everyone for their continued support

HUGE congratulations to Tiago & Benedetta on these tremendous achievements - we’re so lucky to have such brilliant PhD researchers & excellent people in the Department of Early Irish @maynoothuniversity.ie! 🎉🥳👏 @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Early Irish research seminar today: Nia Wyn Jones is speaking about Trioedd Ynys Prydein, the legendary Welsh "Triads of Britain".

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

Níl na moltaí do dúlagar athraithe mórán mar sin @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @niamhwycherley.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/34oG...

For more on these topics see Deborah's LEIGHEAS project website and blog @ceilteachomn.bsky.social: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/lovesickness...

How would be treated for a broken heart, menstrual cramps or infertility in medieval Ireland? Expert @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social takes us through the vast array of medical texts, the 11th c surge in scientific writing & evidence for drs & doctoring in the Middle Ages. open.spotify.com/episode/34oG...

✨ #2 of 85 Things About DIAS #DIASDiscovers #DIAS85 #85ThingsAboutDIAS

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for October 2025 is Dublin, TCD MS 1323 (H.3.4), containing materia medica, texts on the medicinal virtues of feverfew and whiskey, marginal notes in ogham and this very cool letter ‘H’: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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

New in open access #medievalsky: Bede's Medical Books! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Keepin' it Old School this time

The LEIGHEAS project @ceilteachomn.bsky.social is thrilled to welcome Dr Jo Wolf to our awesome team of Research Affiliates! Jo is the Wrixon Fellow in Early & Medieval Irish at UCC, working on a study of the Justinianic Pandemic in Britain and Ireland: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-team/

How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland. A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe, writes @maireadfinnegan.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Join us at the Royal Irish Academy on 2 and 3 October for a two-day conference exploring all aspects of the Book of Lecan. Book your tickets now: www.ria.ie/events/libra...

It is the subject of a two-day conference taking place this week in RIA, in collaboration with @maynoothuniversity.ie and the @dias-isos.bsky.social Read more and view the digital images, provided by Irish Script on Screen and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library: www.ria.ie/collections/...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 2, Leabhar Mór Leacain/the Great Book of Lecan. Compiled in A.D. 1397-1418, it contains a large amount of genealogical material, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material.

We are excited to publish the first blog in our Emerging Scholar series 'The Good, The Bad, and The Blemished: Disability Terminology in Medieval Ireland,' by @djbirishhistory.bsky.social who is conducting a @researchireland.ie funded PhD @muahi.bsky.social

Whatever be the worth of this hypothesis regarding the Book of Kells, Portmahomack in Scotland is the place that is associated with the brilliant contemporary manuscript artist and parchment illustrator Thomas Keyes. For some of his art, see: bsky.app/profile/davi... @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social

D’aon oghaim - tuairisc aonghus.eu/ogham.html @davidstifter.bsky.social @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social #OG_H_AM

Hard to express how wonderful it's been to spend the last 4 years working on this project with such brilliant and all-round excellent people. Thanks to all who turned out to celebrate the launch of the new 'Ogham in 3D' database last night - what an evening!

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...

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

Ní raibh mé ann ach tráthnóna ach bhí an dá chaint a chuala mé iontach spéisiúil agus bhí seoladh ogham.celt.dias.ie spleodrach! @ndefaoite.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social #og_h_am

The crowning event of the conference "Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge / Cànanachas na Gàidhlig" yesterday in @ria.ie was the launch of the Festschrift for Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn (@scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie), in the presence of family & a huge, raving crowd, reflecting the esteem held by the honorand.

In the company of my own personal ogam stone, I am on the train now to @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social to arrange last-minute affairs for the launch of the new 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website tomorrow. Last-minute registrations: buytickets.at/maynoothuniv... Funded by @researchireland.ie @ukri.org.

Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries! www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

One week to go. @researchireland.ie

Comhghairdeas an t-Ollamh @gordonoriain.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social 👏 #DIASdiscovers #DIAS85

New year, new seminar series! 📣 This year's inaugural lecture will be delivered by Dr. Patrick Wadden on the European Identity of Early Medieval Ireland. Join us on September 16th at 4:30 PM in room K114 in the Newman Building, followed by a drinks reception at 5:15 PM Hope to see you there!

This workshop on the literary and documentary record of the Gaelic languages in the early modern Atlantic takes place tomorrow … still a small number of spaces left.

The @dias.ie contingent had a great time this past weekend at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, organised by the Societas Celtologica Europaea in Bonn, Germany.🇩🇪 If you’re curious about our work, you can hear more on our podcast “Ní hansae” www.dias.ie/series/ni-ha... 🎧 #DIASdiscovers

The launch is part of the conference 𝒯𝑒𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝑜𝓁𝒶𝒾́𝑜𝒸𝒽𝓉 𝓃𝒶 𝒢𝒶𝑒𝒾𝓁𝑔𝑒 (www.ria.ie/events/teang...). For the launch of 𝒪𝑔𝒽𝒶𝓂 𝒾𝓃 𝟥𝒟 please register at www.tickettailor.com/events/mayno.... The OG(H)AM team, Katherine, David, Deborah, Nora, Megan, Patricia Funded by @researchireland.ie @ukri.org

🎆 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

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for August 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 24 P 15, containing Irish versions of Petrus de Argellata’s surgical text and the works of Bernard of Gordon. Read more here! 👇 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man... @siobhbar.bsky.social

Thanks to you, Deborah, and to all the other contributors for their wonderful work. And thanks to Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for such an excellent job all around in producing the volume. Can't say enough about their professionalism and support; joy to work with. Enjoy, a chairde!

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇