The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the O’Gara manuscript. Written in the Low Countries in the mid-17th C, this collection of poetry transmits important literary material from manuscript sources that have since been lost.

www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... - Short-term research fellowships (1-4 weeks) available in the University of Glasgow Library, to work with our wonderful Archives and Special Collections. Do apply if this would suit you - a number of Celticists have been successful in the past.

GRMA @tuairisc.bsky.social ! "'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚 tuairisc.ie/an-leann-cei...

Lecture alert @celticuu.bsky.social! 🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source? 📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December 🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

🎓 Symposium Alert! 31st of October, the workshop 'Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World' will take place. Satoko Tokunaga of Keio University Japan will give the keynote lecture entitled 'Shaping sacred landscapes and early printing in late medieval England' 📚 More 👉 www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...

IERSE VERHALEN | In de derde van in totaal vier afleveringen kijken we in de @ubleiden.bsky.social met dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) naar verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland! 🎧 De derde aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren 🧵 1/2 #podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland

About this. I've just received an email from a friend and associate of Maartje Draak saying Maartje would have been 'highly satisfied' with this article, and I'm, just, I can't even, what. This is probably the best peer review I'll ever get in my life.

Je bent zelf een uil!! Luister nu naar de nieuwe september aflevering over Middeleeuws Ierland bij #MiddeleeuwenPodcast!

Welcome to our 14 😍 first year *felmaic* (students), who will be embarking on the magical journey that is Old Irish on Thursday (insert epic music here). Also, of course, a big fáilte/croeso to our current students, who will return to learn more, do more, and write brilliant theses this year! 🔥1/2

Ken je die grap van een podcastmaker en een wetenschapper die een bieb binnen liepen om een tweeluik te maken? ... .... Tsja, dat werd een vierluik dus.

Happy New Academic Year! Begin goed met deel één van een vierluik dat een tweeluik had moeten zijn over middeleeuws Ierland bij de onvolprezen Podcast Middeleeuwen! Van bronnentombola tot hanschriftenshuffle, ga mee op dit doldwaze avontuur 🔥

Miss Celtic while you're enjoying the lovely summer? Then listen to our assistant-professor Nike on Dutch National Radio's history show OVT @omroepvpro and sing along to Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile! 🎤 🎼 1/2 www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...

Are you still basking in the after glow of the #MaartjeDraakSeminars2025? ☀️ Then bask some more in this wonderful #Aftermovie, produced by @veraortlep! 🙏 We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you again in september! 🐉💚☘️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFp...

Registration for the Maartje Draak Seminars 2025 is now open! 🥳 🖌 Registration via: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/FyXYEyg5TJ... (closes on the 11th of June!) 🐉 Programma via: keltisch.sites.uu.nl/maar.../maar... 🔥 Let us know whether we'll see you there this year! 🔥

Excellent work by all involved!

I am so excited that this is live! @naoicea.bsky.social ’s article for which Dr. Katie Albers-Morris and I did the image processing and tech write up for is now live! Nike did an incredible pain-staking job with the translation and transcription. I am in awe of the effort she put into this edition.

A publication out of Utrecht fresh in @sfennica.bsky.social !

We are very delighted that dr. Jasper de Bruin of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden will speak at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars on the recently discovered Bunnik coin hoard, which contains both Celtic and Roman coins. Of course, we will be able to see the coins themselves on location @rmoudheden.bsky.social !

You know you're studying a good language when there is a word specifically for *the neck of a decapitated body* Sometimes I forget how wonderfully graphic Fled Bricrenn is - why is there no film yet? eDIL s.v. méide or dil.ie/31755

Many thanks to #HistorischCafeAmsterdam for their invitation to speak about Kneecap, #Gaeilge and #CelticStudies. And well done to the audience for their amazing questions 🔥 Keep up the good work!

We are delighted that dr. Fraser Hunter has agreed to be one of our speakers at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars 2025! He is the principal curator of prehistoric and Roman archaeology at the National Museums Scotland with a strong focus on ‘Celtic Art’ and the impact of the Romans on local populations.

Peter Schrijver will give the Zenobia Lecture at the @rmoudheden.bsky.social on May 22! He will discuss cultural fusion among the Lepontic and Celtiberian peoples www.rmo.nl/uw-bezoek/ac...

REJOYCE, the #MaartjeDraakSeminars will be back! 😍 #SaveTheDate: Wednesday 25 June and Thursday 26 June will see our second edition of the Maartje Draak Seminars, with the theme 'The Legacy of Celtic Culture in the Roman World'. More information to be released soon, so keep an eye on our socials 🔥

MIDDELEEUWEN | Vanaf maandag 28 april gaan we naar de Middeleeuwen! Wetenschappers uit Nederland en België nemen je mee naar die zo boeiende periode uit de geschiedenis. Benieuwd? Luister naar de trailer en zorg dat je Middeleeuwen volgt in je eigen podcastapp 🎧 ➡️ linktr.ee/middeleeuwen

So proud 😍

Today, our faculty council brought out an advice on the closure of the BA-programme Celtic Studies @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social . Together with the positive advice brought forward by UNL and DLG, (...) 1/4

#CeltsOnTour! Our Medieval Celtic Palaeography class was on excursion to Leiden University Library, and we saw some very cool manuscripts. Many thanks to Leiden, and to Vera for the wonderful video! Manuscripts in video are: BPL 67 BPL 67D VLF 96A VLQ 7 VL) 35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNl...

Today, a Dutch book was launched on the Battle at the Grebbenberg, which took place during the invasion of the NLs in WOII. It includes the experiences of Dutch Celticist Th. Chotzen, who became part of the resistance movement 1/2 @nporadio1.bsky.social www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/s...

Did you know....... that a book is soon to come out on the connections between Scifi and Old Irish Travel Narratives? Leave it to dr. Natalia Petrovskaia to write 'Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives: From Gulliver to Star Trek' - soon to be out with Brill! 🛸🚀🌠

#CeltsOnTour! 🍀 Woensdag werd het @utrechtuniversity doe-boek 'Zoek het Uit!' gepresenteerd. Superfeestelijk natuurlijk, maar wist je dat er in dit boek ook een stukje over ~geheimtaal~ staat? 🤫 En niet zomaar een geheimtaal.... maar een geheimtaal met middeleeuws Ierse letters en Ierse woorden! 🖌😍

Celts on Tour! Today, we offered our dossier with signatures, letters, and news articles to our Rector Magnificus. We had a good chat about the value of small subjects and expertises and how these may be safeguarded for the future. Keep your fingers crossed for us over the next few months!

Cú Chulainn is mad! #StopDeSloop

Nír lessaigis in saíthe! You did not benefit learning!

Solidarity from Ireland to those protesting cuts to education - including the awesome Celtic language programme - over in the Netherlands. ✊

Very grateful to @celticuu.bsky.social & the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me to give a palaeography seminar to the undergraduates, followed by a public lecture & a lengthy q&a afterwards. Really enjoyed it and it's great to see such wide interest in Irish manuscript culture!

Next week - Lecture "Mercian Authors and the Celtic World"! Christine Rauer (University of St. Andrews) explore evidence from Irish, Breton, and Welsh literary trends which can be shown to have influenced Anglo-Saxon productions in characteristic ways. All welcome! www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

Today we offered the Dean of Interdisciplinary Education (Iris van der Tuin) and her colleagues our dossier on Celtic Studies - with all your letters showing the incredible interdisciplinary support we receive 🍀 🐉

@remcobreuker.bsky.social (hoogleraar Koreastudies in Leiden) op de bres voor de kleine talen in de Nederlandse Boekengids: 'Geen spreadsheets, maar kleitabletten' www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20250206-rem...

Next week on Valentine's Day, the brilliant Chantal Kobel of Maynooth University will host a public lecture as part of the The Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies series! Because, who ISN'T in love with medieval Irish manuscripts?! 😍 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

Happy Monday! We celebrate with a new blog, written by our student Quinn, on Old Irish birds - enjoy! keltisch.sites.uu.nl/2025/02/03/s...

This is what you have given us 💚 An enormous file full of signatures, letters, and media coverage, which has now been sent to various institutions that deal with Higher Education in the Netherlands. Thank you.

This Saturday, a Dutch lecture on how feminist a 'Celtic Goddess' actually might or might not be by Dr. Nike Stam. Organised through the Van Hamel Foundation 👇 stichting.vanhamel.nl/Nieuws:Imbol...

This is a short thread of correspondence in the papers of Eoin MacNeill concerning the dismissal of Julius Pokorny from the Chair of Celtic Philology at the University of Berlin, under the provisions of the racist Nuremburg Laws of 1935. #HolocaustMemorialDay

This Thursday - all welcome! www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

CALLING ALL LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & ARCHIVES in WALES -First Call for Papers. Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. Online Conference September PLEASE APPLY we need Welsh women's history @womenshistnet.bsky.social womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

Lief netwerk, onlangs heb ik gehoord dat mijn huisbaas het pand gaat verkopen. Ik ben dus op zoek naar een huurappartement in de regio Leiden. Bij voorkeur ca. 40 m2, huur max. €1500 per maand. Alle tips heel erg welkom!

Last day today!!

This month, we will be closing our petition in order to send the result to the various institutions deciding on the fate of Celtic Studies in Utrecht. So...if you know of some people who haven't signed yet, please send them our link! 🙏 1/2 www.change.org/p/red-de-opl...

Some good news! Our AP Natalia Petrovskaia's new book 'Transforming Europe in the Images of the World, 1110-1500' has just come out in Open Access! Many congratulations to her 🎉 and happy reading to you! 📖 library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

This month, we will be closing our petition in order to send the result to the various institutions deciding on the fate of Celtic Studies in Utrecht. So...if you know of some people who haven't signed yet, please send them our link! 🙏 1/2 www.change.org/p/red-de-opl...