Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars this semester at Maynooth. In person only, but everyone is welcome. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme eap.bl.uk/applicants

Bígí linn d'Oíche Chultúir 2025 (19 Meán Fómhair) i músaem Choláiste Phádraig 6–8 pm. Pléifidh Dubhán Ó Longáin, Stiofán Ó Briain agus Ré Ó Laighléis litríocht agus scéalaíocht na Gaeilge agus déanfaidh Nada Ní Chuirrín damhsa ar an sean-nós, le ceol ó Chian Ó Braonáin. @maynoothuniversity.ie

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

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.

🚨 Tabharfaidh @chantalkobel.bsky.social seimineár in @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social Déardaoin 16 Deireadh Fómhair. Dr Chantal Kobel will present a seminar in UCD Thursday 16 October. '"Come hither!": Guiding the medieval reader in Irish legal vellum manuscripts'.📜 Fáilte roimh chách!

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!

A bit about our upcoming conference on the Book of Lecan. 📚 @scs-dias.bsky.social @ria.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie www.ria.ie/2025/09/03/e...

Favourite Breton manuscripts cont'd: The Saint Gatien Gospels (Paris, BNF MS NAL 1587). Long associated with a Breton centre, the Saint Gatien Gospels are distinct for the rich illuminations and the script, which is a weird (I say that lovingly) and unique version of Insular Half-Uncial

Anyone in the Meath area: the @researchireland.ie 'Power & Patronage...' team* will be giving a talk on Thursday September 18th, 7.30pm, St Finnian's Parish Centre, Clonard, titled 'Clonard: residence of kings, school of saints'. Free entry. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie 1/2

1/3📜✨ New on ISOS: from the Russell Library, Maynooth, CF 11 & CF 16, both 19th-c copies of Leabhar Gabhála. Rich mytho-historical texts, with links back to Leabhar Droma Sneachta & earlier sources. Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie MU Special Collections & Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin

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

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...

⚠️ 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 ⬇️

CFP: @rebpaf.bsky.social’s “Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” With keynote speakers @wynkenhimself.bsky.social @renskehoff.bsky.social and Aditi Nafde Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 23-25 June 2026 Deadline: 15 December 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/re-med...

The Annals of the Four Masters were completed and signed #OTD 1636. This is the signature page (UCD-OFM Ms A13). The Annals are a chronicle of Irish history from AM 2242 to AD 1616. They were written, in Irish, between 22 January 1632 and 10 August 1636. www.isos.dias.ie 1/3

🚨 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

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

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...

The launch of Old Irish: a beginners guide took place in the Royal Irish Academy. The book, by Dr Rebecca Shercliff, @cam.ac.uk‬, was launched by Dr Chantal Kobel, @maynoothuniversity.ie‬, and attendees included a number of students and staff from the DIAS Celtic Studies Summer School 2025

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...

It's been an intensive but fulfilling last two weeks! Thank you to @scs-dias.bsky.social for hosting such an amazing event, I've learnt so much and would definitely recommend the Summer School to anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the Celtic nations!

Two weeks of teaching @scs-dias.bsky.social summer school done! The students crushed it! #iykyk 😜

The provisional programme of the 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 (27 to 29 August 2025), organised on behalf of Societas Celtologica Europaea, is now accessible at www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/e.... For further questions, contact [email protected].

A thread of scribes grappling - with varying degrees of success - with the letter w. Llyfr Du o’r Waun (“The Black Book of Chirk”, NLW Peniarth MS 29, s.xiiimed), primarily an early copy of the Welsh Laws of Hywel Dda, is known for its chaotic orthography. But its w’s are fun too! #medievalsky

I'll be launching Dr Rebecca Shercliffe's Old Irish: A Beginner's Guide @ria.ie tomorrow eve at 6.30pm. If you are around, do pop into 19 Dawson St. to help celebrate the publication of Dr Shercliffe's new book!

Registration is now open for conference on the manuscript known as the "Book of Lecan", collaboratively organized by @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social. Taking place 2-3 October at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin: shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

New membership call for @yai.ie now open! Come and join our vibrant network of ECRIs working together for the benefit of society. Some of my YAI colleagues will hold an online info session on how to apply esp. for Scholars At Risk/Scholars from a Displaced background, 1–2pm, Friday 1st August.

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).

Event alert: Launch of Rebecca Shercliff's "Old Irish: a Beginner's Guide" Thu 24 July 18:30 at @ria.ie. Register: shop.ria.ie/products/old... More info: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... The book will be launched by Dr Chantal Kobel (@chantalkobel.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social).

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

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...

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.

Applications are invited for two positions of Lexicographer in the Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy. Find out more: www.ria.ie/about/careers/vacancy-two-lexicographer-posts-with-focloir-stairiuil-na-gaeilge/ #DublinJobs #JobFairy #IrishJobs

***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...

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! 📚

A c.16–17th century hunting or drinking horn found in the vicinity of Rossmore Castle, County Monaghan. On display in the Monaghan County Museum. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

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...

So excited for this evening's Tuatha Talk Webinar with the brilliant @thecelticist.bsky.social: 'Marriage, Bees, and Warfare: Exploring Early Irish Law'. It should be a really fascinating discussion!

A great initiative by @heritagecouncil.ie and @ucddublin.bsky.social School of History! "The Heritage Council, in partnership with the School of History at University College Dublin (UCD), is proud to announce a new bursary to support students undertaking the MA in Archives and Records Management."

The manuscript of the week is Lebor na hUidre (RIA MS 23 E 25). The Manuscript of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. Monday - Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required. www.ria.ie/collections/...

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...

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...

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

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...