"The Northumbrian monks are known to have mentored the Picts". If only we knew who mentored the Northumbrians...

Gentle reminder that in and around 500AD, the Britons were the Welsh, the Welsh were British, the Irish were the Scots, and the Scots were the Irish. The Picts were the Picts, but they weren't that picky.

Dál Riada is more Donegal. I blame Colmcille.

Ah jaysis, tis yourself....

Of course, it's not widely known that flying ant day was originally a pagan colony...

The much anticipated, incredible, 'Words on the Wave' exhibition opens in @nmireland.bsky.social today! FREE TO ALL. Can't make it? Listen to Matt Seaver & Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain on what makes it so special & about Irish connections w/Switzerland going back 1,400 years. open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...

Very sorry to hear this. Never met him, but he single handedly invented modern day geo/ textual criticism identification of Tírechán sites by correctly identifying Tobar Finnmhuighe. In 1967. It was the 1990s before anyone else did.

Armageddon. There’s probably a line about this in an apocryphal Revelation that no one reads anymore as a woman wrote it. “And the magpies will rattle the earth”

I had to nearly stop on the way to work because a blackbird on the road was too busy roaring at one on the wall. I was kind of amused, I dropped to second gear and eventually it moved. When I cam back from work there was flat bird on the road. Pick your battlefields, lads.

3rd c No Celts 4th c No Celts 5th c No Celts 6th c No Celts 7th c No Celts 8th c No Celts 9th c No Celts 10th c No Celts 11th c No Celts 12th c No Celts 13th c No Celts 14th c No Celts 15th c No Celts 16th c No Celts 17th c No Celts 18th c Celts invented 19th c. Celtic revival 20th c. Enya

Paul Durcan RIP. No longer are you to be named Forsaken, nor your land Abandoned, but you shall be called My Delight and your land The Wedded.

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Cork Luas? More like South Mall.

This week on the podcast we thank Dr Janel Fontaine for sharing her research on slavery in the Middle Ages. From the accounts of Patrick in the 5th century to Gerald of Wales in the 12th she explains how slavery was built into the fabric of medieval Irish society. open.spotify.com/episode/048Y...

Some thoughts on St Patrick & his writings for the day that’s in it - products of pragmatism & trauma www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

So pleased that my article on Irish saints & their places has appeared in Peritia: I don't have a free-to-read link but am happy to share my pdf via email; this is the result of an accidental project that began with tweeting Irish saints on their feastdays, back in the days when Twitter was fun

This is absolutely fantastic.

No.

Wooly Mammoths, is it now? I'll tell ye one thing, ye wouldn't see Irish Archaeos trying to reconstruct Ancient Irish Elk, Justinian Plague, Hiberno Norse Warriors, the Ancient Irish Speckled Cursing Stones of Knocknaree used by Maeve herself to shrivel her enemies ball sacks on a Tuesday...

Very sad to see the poet and general sharp observer of life Pat Ingoldsby has died. So, as he prepared for this event, here's to Pat. 🥃

Lecture in TCD 6th Feb at 7:30 on Brigit’s early female followers and how they may have reconciled their Christian ideals with the prevailing norms of Irish society (and what that says about adoption and adaption of wider European ideas).

To mark the feast of St Brigit of Kildare here is a link to a recent open access article by me about her early cult. In it, I argue that the historical figure - the only one of Ireland's three patron saints who is a woman - was celebrated as a champion of the powerless www.ria.ie/2024/02/01/m...

Happy St Brigid's Day, the day people traditionally spout more ahistorical nonsense about Irish "goddesses" and "pre-Christian customs" than on any other day of the year. Resist the BS! Here's a really good piece by Tiago Veloso Silva as a little antidote: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Archaeologist: It's ritual.

We used to call your Da ‘Newgrange’ because he was always full of Druids

Just got the finger from a passing druid in a chariot with go faster stripes. I hate the solstice.

Yet another great episode. And why wouldn't it be with a landscape archaeologist @shazarch.bsky.social ;) Killeen Cormac is hands down the most incredible geophys I have ever seen of an extremely early Irish female ecc site. Whenever it is excavated it will revolutionise everything we think we know

Highly recommend a read of this lovely paper by Richard Bradley and Aaron Watson on Neolithic monument complexes in Scotland and Ireland, and the connections between them. Journeying must have been a significant component of beliefs, social organisation and identity in the middle-late Neolithic:

Elvis Preseli

What do you get that ragged grumpy early medieval apocalyptic hermit, sitting on an ancient burial mound in a ring ditch on fire surrounded by feral sheep, shaking a fist & roaring into an atlantic wind, in your life for Xmas? This beauty. By @ciaraioch.bsky.social So much more at: ciaraioch.com

I've always liked this image. Patrick is either giving the viewer two fingers...or about to shoot lasers at some pesky druids or something. *Pew Pew*

You can find Amplify Archaeology on all the usual podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, and more, or on our website at the link below: www.abartaheritage.ie/irish-hillfo...

Irish Hillforts are some of our largest monuments, though until recently, they remained relatively enigmatic. In recent years, Dr James O’Driscoll has started to uncover their story, and he tells us all about it in our latest episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast!

So very saddened to hear of the passing of Colin Renfrew. He was kind to me and generous with his time and knowledge.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Hagiography: The cup, which by the devil's wiles had been wickedly chipped, was by the wondrous power of the man of God, as we truly believe, restored to wholeness with praise to Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the confounding of the paga

Sorry, can't hear you. Am in my echo chamber.

It's out - paper by Mark Hall (mainly), myself and James Graham-Campbell on the Lindisfarne playing pieces (amongst other examples). Archaeological Journal. Open Access From Durham Uni / DigVentures excavations on Holy Island www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Early Irish History 101. Northern Uí Néill. Southern Uí Néill

(jumping on bandwagon...hup...) Maynooth's own Paul Mescal stars in Gladiator II. But what was going on in Ireland in Late Antiquity? @elvabjohnston.bsky.social tells us all about this fascinating time when elites imported wine & fancy earbuds from the Roman Empire. open.spotify.com/episode/2wAd...

This is just like the old days. God I missed you guys.

They always have an answer.

With thanks and a nod to @catmclain.bsky.social Archaeology of Ireland 101. Mesolithic: Little Stones. Neolithic: Big Stones. Bronze Age: Cooking Stones. Iron Age: Getting Stoned. Early Medieval: Holy Stones. Late Medieval: Decorated Foreign Stones. Early Modern: Industrial Mill Stones.

I have no recollection of ever saying this...

Referring to 'X' as 'Chi' so Elon gives himself a stroke through sheer rage of trying to pretend he thought of it first

Threads watching us move from Twitter to Bluesky

@grovedigger.bsky.social Ah Jaysis, tis yourself...

This entire podcast series continues to be the modern equivalent of speed dating an Irish university experience. Except you dont have any assignments. Or 9am lectures. And @niamhwycherley.bsky.social brings the experts to you.

Created a starter pack for accurate and authentic information on Megalithic Pagan Ireland, Celts and Druids... go.bsky.app/CeLt404

There used to be herds of wild academics roaming in the wild edges where the starter packs now stand.