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 👇

Delighted to have a chapter on Irish medical writing published Open Access in this excellent volume, now available in print! Many thanks to @brendankanect.bsky.social and Patrick Wadden for all their hard work as editors: brill.com/display/titl...

One month to go. The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social. @researchireland.ie @ukri.org /1

⚠️ Seminar announcement: in semester 2 of the new academic year (Feb-May 2026), I will be teaching a 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 (SG648) in the Dept. of Early Irish (@ceilteachomn.bsky.social) at Maynooth University. Guests from outside are very welcome. More info ⬇️

Scoil samhraidh 2025: gabhaimid ár mbuíochas le gach duine a ghlac páirt inti, agus tá súil againn gur bhain gach duine leas agus spraoi aisti. Summer School 2025: thanks to all who took part, and we hope everyone benefited from it and enjoyed it. www.dias.ie/2024/11/12/c...

🚨 Open-access Celtica updates! 📚 Celtica volumes 32–36 have now been published online here: journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce... 🔍 There is also now a search facility on the site (in the 'about' drop down menu) here: journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce... #DIASdiscovers #DIAS85

Are you working on topics related to the history of linguistics?🫵 Consider submitting an article to ✨Language & History✨, the journal of the Henry Sweet Society! It is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published 3 times per year both online and in print. www.henrysweet.org/language-and...

Meet the independent, fierce, proactive women of medieval Ireland. Benedetta D'Antuono @maynoothuniversity.ie on how translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to adapt to a new world where Irish women were far different than their English counterparts www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Anocht! Tonight!

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.

Join us for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned. ⏰12 August, 7-8pm 📍Online 🔗Register: https://loom.ly/ck4iTmI

Two perspectives of the same event, differentiated by 180°: my second class on Ancient Celtic languages at the @scs-dias.bsky.social Summer School 2025 today. I've never taught such a big class, 60 or so students, in Ancient Celtic before! 😃

🗓️ Seoladh leabhair, Déardaoin 17 Iúil, ag 5:30i.n! Fáilte roimh chách! 📢 Book launch, Thursday 17th July at 5:30pm. Everyone is welcome! 📗 Gordon Ó Riain, "On the Faults of Poetry: An Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts V", Irish Texts Society 69 (2025).

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

1/3 📜✨ Two new manuscripts from Russell Library, Maynooth, now on ISOS: CF 13 & CF 14, both by 19th-c scribe Seosamh Ó Longáin. Religious + mythological texts, with elegant script & decorated initials. Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social MU Special Collections & Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin.

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for July 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 N 29. It consists of 23 paper fragments, one of which is a portion of the sole surviving prosimetrical remedy collection in Irish. Read more here! 👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

***SANAS OBRACH | JOB AD*** Celtic & Gaelic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is advertising a full-time, fixed-term lectureship in #CelticStudies. Application deadline: 23 July. I'd be delighted to chat to anyone considering an application - my email is in the ad www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

📢 #jobopportunity #medievalsky 📜 Lecturer in Old English ⏳5 years, full-time (anticipated duration to 30 June 2030) 🏫 University College Cork ⏰12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Tuesday, 8th July 2025 📲 Details of the post, selection criteria and application process: www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

It’s Open Day @maynoothuniversity.ie today - come chat with me & the excellent Truc Ha Nguyen about all the cool things you can do with a degree in Medieval Celtic Studies @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! 📚

NEW from the Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine... our handlist of the 198(!!!) pre-1000 manuscripts with medical texts not included in the standard catalogues. It's been a productive first phase for the project... but a lot of work still to do! #medievalsky

... @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social and myself, and she has taught medieval Irish literature and language. I am also hopeful that later in the year a second position in the project, more focused on the development of Digital Humanities tools, will be filled, also based on the interviews this week. /4

I am now happy to announce that Dr Truc Ha Nguyen will take up this position in August. Her role will be to do philological and linguistic research to identify regionally diversified texts in the Old Irish corpus. From 2018 to 2023, Truc was a PhD student in Maynooth, supervised by... /3

Friends & colleagues, the amazing OG(H)AM project, a collaboration between Dept. of Celtic & Gaelic @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Dept. of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is slowly coming to an end. With a smile & a tear, I present the final instalment...

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...

🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal. 🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...

On this day 85 years ago - 19 June 1940 - the 'Institute for Advanced Studies Act' was signed into law by President Dubhglas de hÍde, officially establishing DIAS. Over the next 12 months, we’ll be celebrating 85 years of world-class research! Join us on this journey! #DIAS85 #DIASdiscovers

We're celebrating the 85th anniversary of @dias.ie 🎂 Listen to the latest episode of our podcast to learn more about the history of DIAS and the School of Celtic Studies, and the work that we do here, from the director of the School himself, Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn! 🎧 www.dias.ie/podcast/01-w...

Deadline is this Friday!

A huge shipment of my books on ogam inscriptions & Cisalpine Celtic has just come in, incl. the Spanish translation of my ogam book! (Plus books on Gaulish & Celtiberian.) My books will be on sale in the Maynooth bookshop (shop.universitybooks.ie/Books/Ogam-L...), the @nmireland.bsky.social shop...

SO excited to finally put this new season of Ní hansae out into the world! 👏 This would not have been possible without my amazing podcast team mates Viktoriia Krivoshchekova & Robert Scuta. Special shoutout to @naoicea.bsky.social for starting the podcast in 2021, and allowing us to take it over!

A new #medieval #medhist #manuscript post! "Magical Medicine in Medieval Manuscripts", written for the National Library of Medicine blog Circulating Now, reporting on one facet of my research there as a DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine. circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2025/06/05/m...

Enjoyed attending and speaking at Comhdháil ar an Óige agus an Míchumas: Polasaí, Cleachtas, Cuimsiú agus Pobal na Gaeilge’ at UCD today, where I discussed the theory behind discussing disability in medieval Ireland. Learnt a lot from the other papers, and also got to practice my cúpla focal! GRMA!

Seven of the 20 contributors to the volume are present at the current workshop: Sharon Arbuthnot, Deborah Hayden, Joseph Flahive, Sarah Baccianti, David Stifter, Siobhán Barrett, Conan Doyle @conandoyle.bsky.social. /4