Deadline tomorrow, Friday 3rd July!

It’s Open Day @maynoothuniversity.ie today! Francesco Felici and I will be here until 2pm to answer all your questions about the wonderful subject that is Medieval Celtic Studies. Come talk to us! 📚🎓📜

Guess what? The call for papers for the XVIII Celtic Congress in Salamanca is open! internationalcelticcongresssalamanca.com/index.php/re...

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

✨#39 of #85ThingsAboutDIAS D.A. Binchy's Corpus Iuris Hibernici First published by DIAS in 1978, this six-volume work offers an in-depth exploration of Brehon Law, Ireland’s indigenous legal system and is an essential resource for studying early Irish society and culture. @scs-dias.bsky.social

My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities. Almost 2,000 sign open letter criticising Research Ireland for favouring industry and commercial interests. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026. Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026. Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Colleagues might consider signing this petition against the downgrading of AHSS research by Research Ireland openletter.earth/concern-abou...

✨#35 of #85 Things About DIAS Ogham in 3D launched in 2013. DIAS's School of Celtic Studies digitizes early medieval inscriptions - some of Ireland's most significant national treasures and our earliest written records, dating back to the 5th century. @scs-dias.bsky.social #85ThingsAboutDIAS

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for May 2026 is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G453, written primarily by Cathal Ó Duinnshléibhe in 1592/3 and containing this Irish translation of a popular versified work on health regimen: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

This (above) is the bust of Erwin Schrödinger in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Schrödinger was the first Austrian who was Senior Professor at DIAS. I'll be the second (but not in Theoretical Physics).

But now, for a big new announcement: the radically new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani (Brendan's Voyage) with English translation, just after being published by the School of Celtic Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie. /2

Scéim na mac léinn samhraidh 2026 Summer studentships 2026 Bí linn i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh! Deis le scileanna taighde a fhoghlaim. Stipinn ar fáil. Join us in SCS! A chance to acquire research experience. A stipendium is paid. Sprioc: 27 Bealtaine Deadline: 27 May www.dias.ie/dias-summer-...

Tá muid ag earcú! Cúntóir Taighde le Gaois, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU. Conradh ar Théarma Seasta suas le 2 bhliain. Bí páirteach i bhforbairt acmhainní digiteacha den chéad scoth do lucht labhartha na Gaeilge. Dáta dúnta: An Luan, 25 Bealtaine. www.dcu.ie/people/jobs

⚠️Event alert: OGHAM - THE EARLIEST WRITTEN IRISH 16 May 2026 Lismore Heritage Centre Co. Waterford Speakers: @ndefaoite.bsky.social (@maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social) @davidstifter.bsky.social Fionnbarr Moore NMS Edel Bhreathnach Tickets: www.eventbrite.ie/e/ogham-the-...

Join us for this year's O'Donnell Lecture in #Celtic Studies: ‘Old #Irish: plenty of variation, but of what kind?’ Dr Aaron Griffith (Utrecht University) 🗓 8 May at 5.30pm 📍 Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford All welcome! Register: english.web.ox.ac.uk/event/old-ir...

Mulling the editorial direction of Renaissance Studies, and thinking it might be time to open the journal up to articles by humanities scholars who have a very shaky grasp of how science works but fancy having a go

Today at DIAS: Ben Guy delivered a public lecture about 'How to write a history of Britain in the ninth century: Historia Brittonum and its sources'

🚨 The online Summer 2026 Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar is here! 🗓️ Join us this coming Monday 27.04.2026 (18:00 CET) for: Siobhán Barrett (Maynooth University): "Could there have been a medical school in Co Mayo in 16th-century, Ireland? A discussion of some textual evidence" 🔗 See poster for the link!

The triumuiri representing Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social at the @maynoothuniversity.ie Open Day today: Francesco Felici, myself, and @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social. We had a good number of students interested in studying Medieval Irish Studies with us in the coming years. /1

Want to study medieval Irish literature, history and language at @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie? @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social and myself will be at the MU Open Day today to answer your questions.

An tOllamh Fionntán de Brún ag cur tús le Léachtaí Cholm Cille 2026 in Ambasáid na hÉireann, Páras inniu! www.maynoothuniversity.ie/nua-ghaeilge... @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie

I am looking forward to speaking about Irish medical scribes from Co Mayo at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar on Monday next 27th April. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2026 is London, British Library MS Egerton 159, written in 1592 by the Leinster physician Tadhg Mac Caisín and recently digitised for the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project! Read more about it here: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

✨#29 of #85 Things About DIAS The First International Congress of Celtic Studies. The foremost international gathering of scholars researching Celtic languages, literature and cultural traditions, was held at DIAS. Organized by the late DIAS Professor Brian Ó Cúiv. @scs-dias.bsky.social #DIAS

Today, I've been reading a very old medical commentary from ancient Uruk, written in the Akkadian language. It's a tiny cuneiform tablet that explains words and phrases excerpted from another text - a diagnostic manual, known in antiquity as Sa-gig.

🚨 Only a week left to submit for our Celtic Studies student prizes: best PhD thesis, and best Scholarly article (by a pre-doc). Deadline 31st March. Regulations & info: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/ #AcademicSky

1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth Three Irish-language manuscripts (19th c.). Grammar, poetry, devotion & tradition, scribes Seán Ó Coileáin, Denis Murray & Seosamh Ó Longáin. Ogham lore, spiritual texts & literary reflection. 🙏 Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie #DIASdiscovers

Sheol an tUachtarán Connolly tuarascáil ar staidéar na Gaeilge go hoifigiúil in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad tráthnóna inniu. This afternoon, President Connolly officially launched a report on the study of the Irish language at @maynoothuniversity.ie

Happening later this week 👇

Honoured to have spoken last week at the 'Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World' Symposium, organised as part of Deborah Hayden's @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social LEIGHEAS Project at @ceilteachomn.bsky.social at @maynoothuniversity.ie. It was an excellent event with many brilliant papers!

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for March 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 O 6, containing texts on uroscopy, poisons & their antidotes, the medicinal virtues of whiskey and these cool marginal drawings of fish: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

The afternoon sessions of the LEIGHEAS symposium was opened by Siobhán Barrett (Maynooth) with a talk on the „The Medical Manuscripts of Cairbre Ó Cendamháin“, in which she identifies the scribe of 3 medical manuscripts (incl. phlebotomy man).

Full house today at the Symposium "Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World", organised in Prof Deborah Hayden's @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social LEIGHEAS Project at teh Department of Early Irish at @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social.

Leabhair ar fáil saor in aisce! Mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge, seolfar sé leabhar éagsúla amach saor in aisce. Trí chrannchur a roghnófar na buaiteoirí. Cuir d'ainm isteach anseo: www.dias.ie/2026/03/11/s... #seachtainnagaeilge @dias.ie

Amárach | Tomorrow 👀

Scoláireacht bliana le fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 1 Year scholarship available in SCS @dias.ie Sonraí / Details: www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...

Still 2 weeks to apply for this position! It’s to provide cover for me while I work on a research project, so I have lots of teaching materials I'm happy to share & the department can offer some extra funding for attending conferences, etc. Come work with us in @ceilteachomn.bsky.social next year!

The ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University, Ireland, is hiring (two positions - this is the second)! I'm also looking a new research assistant/postdoc to conduct image analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered within the project. See: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

An-áthas orm a rá gur éirigh liom sa Viva Voce inniu agus go mbeidh an PhD á bhronnadh orm. Aistear fada blianta a bhí dúshlánach go maith ach thug scéalta Uí Chadhain féin spreagadh dom. Mo bhuíochas le gach duine a chuidigh liom, mion is mór, feadh na slí. Bhí go maith is ní raibh go holc.

Just a couple days until our LEIGHEAS project symposium on ‘Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World’, this Thursday 12th March @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! Please get in touch if you’d like to attend – spaces are filling up fast & we want to make sure we have enough chairs & food for everyone 😊

Folúntas/Vacancy: 1-year O'Donovan Scholarship, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social Applicants will normally hold a doctoral degree prior to taking up the scholarship. Deadline 30 April 2026. www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...

Thurs 26 March, Prof. Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Memorial Lecture (in-person and online), on a topic close to Bannerman's own work: 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More info 👇 hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...

Dr Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social and myself are holding up the flag for postgraduate programmes in Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social at @maynoothuniversity.ie today. Maynooth Early Irish offers a range of postgraduate programmes: Taught MA in Medieval Irish Studies (1 yr) /1

1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth Two remarkable Irish-language manuscripts (18th & 19th c.). Scribes include Pól Ó Longáin & Seán Ó Laochadh. Dialogues, Ogham lore, heroic saga, poetry & genealogies. 🙏Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie @dias-isos.bsky.social #DIASdiscovers

Today at 1pm in Dublinia!

Blagiontráíl nua: Táin Bó Cuailnge ó Éirinn go dtí an Astráil agus ar líne! Léigh anois! www.ria.ie/blog/tain-bo... @dias-isos.bsky.social @corrigans.bsky.social