The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 6, the Annals of the Four Masters. The Annals are a chronicle of Irish history from A.M. 2242 to A.D. 1616, compiled between A.D. 1632-1636 by a Franciscan brother and three laymen, now known as the Four Masters.

Great to see more of our Gaelic manuscripts from St. Colman’s College Cork fully digitised and available for viewing online! Thanks Anne-Marie! ✨

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

Delighted to be taking part in #HeritageWeek2025 this year with the launch of our publication 'Ogham Stones of County Mayo' by Mayo County Council Heritage Office on Wednesday evening! @heritagecouncil.ie @mayocountycouncil.bsky.social

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 E 29, The Book of Fermoy. @dias-isos.bsky.social www.ria.ie/collections/manuscripts/irish-language-manuscripts/book-of-fermoy/

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...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac: www.ria.ie/collections/manuscripts/irish-language-manuscripts/leabhar-breac-the-speckled-book-the-book-of-mac-egans-leabhar-mor-duna-doighre/

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/...

🚨 NEW podcast episode! Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd @hoireabhard.bsky.social‬, formerly an O’Donovan scholar (now @ceilteachomn.bsky.social‬) discusses his book ‘Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion’ (@livunipress.bsky.social‬). 🎧 YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts & www.dias.ie/series/ni-ha... ✨

Go raibh maith agaibh ‪@irishexaminer.bsky.social! Great review of our Research Podcast "Ní hansae". New episode coming out this Friday 27 June, so keep an eye on this space 👀

1/2📜 Delighted to feature a newly digitised manuscript from @ria.ie on ISOS, MS E iv 2, a remarkable 17th-century medical text containing Aphorisms of Hippocrates, hymnal notes, healing remedies & more. 🩺📖 A rare glimpse into early modern Gaelic medical tradition!

🚨 Tá an chéad eipeasóid anseo!! Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn on: "What is the School of Celtic Studies @dias.ie?" 🎧 Listen / Watch now following the links below 👇

1/4 📜✨ Newly available manuscripts from the Russell Library, Maynooth. MSS CF 1 & CF 34 now on Irish Script on Screen (ISOS), with thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social , MU Special Collections & Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin. 19th-c Irish manuscripts contain poetry, religious texts & stories.

1/5 Delighted to announce a new collaboration with Kilkenny Mile Museum to digitise the Liber Primus Kilkenniensis, Kilkenny’s oldest civic record. 📜 #LiberPrimus #Digitisation @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social #DIASdiscovers #IrishManuscripts

The Manuscript of the Week is the Book of Uí Mhaine, RIA MS D ii 1. The contents of this 14th C manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany). Read more & find a link to the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy here: www.ria.ie/collections/...

The Manuscript of the Week is the Annals of Connacht, RIA MS C iii 1. This manuscript records the history of Gaelic Ireland for over three hundred years from AD 1224-1544! The years are visible in the the margins. Read more & see the @dias-isos.bsky.social digital copy: www.ria.ie/collections/...

Celebrate World Poetry Day with us by delving into the extensive array of digitized Irish manuscripts and poetry available on Irish Script on Screen! Check it out here and through our linktree: www.isos.dias.ie

A BIG Og(h)am event coming up: Professor Katherine Forsyth's inaugural lecture at the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social Wednesday 26 March 17:30 Registration at: www.eventbrite.com/cc/humanitie...

Our Manuscript of the Week is the Book of O’Lees or Book of Hy-Brasil, RIA MS 23 P 10(ii). Each table names a disease, typical characteristics, who is most susceptible, and most importantly, the cures! Learn more & see a digitised copy via @dias-isos.bsky.social www.ria.ie/collections/...

Really excited to see this out in the world, open-access ✨ I argue that coloured/enlarged letters (litterae notabiliores) and paragraphs are used in the manuscripts to mark dialogue and the textual structure of Acallam na Senórach. MS pictures and direct links to @dias-isos.bsky.social are provided!

Amárach - tomorrow! Déardaoin 20 Feabhra - Thursday, 20th February ‘Before Zeuss: some (justly?) neglected works on early Celtic linguistics’ James Mallory (Queen’s University Belfast) 5.30, DIAS, Dublin/BÁC Fáilte roimh chách! All welcome! #DIASdiscovers www.dias.ie/2025/02/10/l...

Léachtaí poiblí na Scoile san earrach, 2025. Fáilte romhaibh ar fad! SCS public lectures spring 2025. All welcome! www.dias.ie/2025/02/10/l...

4/ You can see the digitised copy of the manuscript via @dias-isos.bsky.social here: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2... read Whitey Stokes' English translation of the Tale of Fortinbras via @archive.org here: archive.org/details/revu... #LibraryLoversMonth

1/ Our Manuscript of the Week is Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (RIA MS 23 O 48). This 15th C compilation of texts includes the Tale of Fortinbras: an Irish retelling of a French song in which a Saracen giant chooses to become a Christian knight in the service of Charlemagne.

Once thought lost, now digitally available, an Irish manuscript translation of Book 1 of Paradise Lost, via @dias-isos.bsky.social, with my own catalogue entry for the manuscripts. Also first manuscript from a North American library on the wonderful @dias-isos.bsky.social

🚨 Lost & Found! A 19th-century Irish translation of Paradise Lost by poet Tomás ‘an tSneachta’ Ó Conchubhair has been rediscovered in the University of Illinois collection! 🎉 Believed lost for decades, it's now live on ISOS. 📜 🌍 👉 Explore: www.isos.dias.ie/collection/u...

"Check out this month’s LEIGHEAS Project pick: Royal Irish Academy MS 23 F 19! 📜 Featuring an Irish treatise on anatomy, Trotula texts on women’s medicine, & more. Explore on ISOS: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2... 🩺✨ #MedievalMedicine"

1/4📜✨ Exciting new treasures from the Russell Library, Maynooth! Discover manuscripts CF 9, CF 10, & CF 12, courtesy of MU Special Collections & Archives & Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin. Explore these remarkable manuscripts below. @maynoothuni.bsky.social @diasdublin.bsky.social #DIASdiscovers

Dive into MS G 414 from the National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social on ISOS www.isos.dias.ie/NLI/NLI_MS_G...

📜 Explore the manuscript on ISOS here: www.isos.dias.ie/UCD/UCD_MS_A...