#OTD 125 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900–1940) was born 🤩 Expert on Celtic studies, particularly on Irish language and mythology. One of the few female scholars, she attended the First International Congress of Linguists in 1928. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu. Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn. Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow. Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.

Thanks to everyone who joined our Centenary Symposium! It was a joy to celebrate 100 years of publishing. We're continuing the celebration with 25% off all print books until 2 Oct—use code CUP100YEARS at checkout. (1/2)

Prátaí ar maidin, prátaí um nóin...

Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live: ogham.celt.dias.ie Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.

Comhghairdeachas leis an Ollamh Ó hUiginn! Tá aiste agam féin sa bhféilscríbhinn seo - 'Seachadadh Laoi Choinn mhic an Deirg in Éirinn' agus táim ag tnúth go mór leis an gcuid eile den leabhar a léamh.

Ealaíontóirí digiteacha! Má tá sibh ag lorg inspioráid, tá comórtas againn! Ní mór iarratais don chomórtas a chur isteach faoin dáta deiridh (15ú Deireadh Fhómhair) is fógrófar na buaiteoirí go gairid ina dhiadh sin. Cuirfimid na saothair bhuaiteacha ar ár meáin shóisialta. Go n-éirí libh!

Craobh Eolais - A Festschrift for Ruairí Ó hUiginn, in eagar ag Gregory Toner, Lára Ní Mhaoláin, agus Fionntán de Brún, á sheoladh in @ria.ie. 📜

Waitlist still open for our Symposium next week! 📘 Session 3 features Heather Laird on Daniel Corkery, Virginia Teehan on The Collegiate Chapel, Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh on Ogam Stones at UCC Margaret Lantry on The College 🔗 Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium

Waitlist now open for our Symposium next week 📘 Session 2 features: Claire Connolly on Irish Women’s Writing, Michelle McKeown on Irish Flora, Ciara Chambers on Gaelic Games on Film, Eoin Reardon on Irish Furniture 🔗Full programme: bit.ly/CUPSymposium

Looking forward to seeing you at our Symposium next week. bit.ly/CUPSymposium 📘 Session 1: Paul McSweeney on Urban Milk Supply. Síle Ní Mhurchú on Dánta Gráda. Iarla Ó Lionáird on Irish Music. Cormac Ó Gráda on Cork’s Economic History Other session details to follow

If you’re wondering whether to get out of bed on this mid-harvest Monday, perhaps it’s worth consulting Fionn mac Cumhaill’s sleep schedule, which according to the folklore in our database, revolves around the reddening of the sky – Find out more: fionnfolklore.org/en/lays/pvf09

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

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

Excited to have Pádraig O'Macháin & Anna Hoffmann from UCC & the McCarthy MSI project (incorporating Inks & Skins) in Marsh's working on on our manuscripts. The inks in our 14th century Processional are still looking very vibrant!

Agallamh lenár scoláire an Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou An interview with our scholar Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou. @dias.ie @ninacnock.bsky.social

Panorama de phrós na Gaeilge le míle bliain anuas atá sa leabhar éachtach seo leis an údar agus scoláire Diarmuid Johnson. Tá léargas sna sleachta sin ar an éagsúlacht agus ar an mbisiúlacht atá i dtraidisiún na scríbhneoireachta idir 1100 agus 1925 leabharbreac.com/deoch-an-tob...

A’ dèanamh obair deasachaidh an-dràsta còmhla ri @siminnes.bsky.social airson‬ Aiste 8 a bhios air-loidhne ro dheireadh na bliadhna. Bidh fàilte ro artagailean son Aiste 9 ro dheireadh a’ Ghearrain 2026. Agus mura faca tu Aiste 7 fhathast ... clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

Bígí linn don chomhdháil iontach seo ar Leabhar Mór Lecain, 2-3 Deireadh Fómhair 2025! Join us for this wonderful conference on the Book of Lecan, 2-3 October 2025! Gach eolas | All info: buff.ly/6YqnzT6 @ria.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @thecelticist.bsky.social

Dáta don dialann: Siompóisiam ar an fhoréigean inscne agus Léann na Gaeilge ar Dé Máirt an 25 Samhain sa Chultúrlann, is é sin Lá Idirnáisiúnta um Dhíothú an Fhoréigin in aghaidh na mBan. Clár le teacht, beidh scoth na gcainteoirí linn ar an lá! Léaráidí leis an fhile Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha.

Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky

I hadn't been aware of this recording of 11 Early Irish poems, read by Myles Dillon around 1956. Kindly made available by the School of Celtic in University College Cork. www.youtube.com/watch?v=45WU... (I am pleased to note that my own pronunciation of those poems isn't far off Dyllon's.)

Royal Irish Academy, 2-3 Octover shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

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].

🎙️ It's now my turn to sit in the hot seat, but "Ní hansae"! 👀 I discuss lots of things including the usual suspects: Cork, Acallam na Senórach and manuscripts, but there's some other stuff too 😉 I hope people enjoy the episode!

A very interesting article by @emmettaylor.bsky.social about coercion of Naoise and Diarmaid in medieval recensions of these tales: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/full/10.... It will certainly make us rethink oral retellings! #fianna #celticstudies

🗓️ 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).

rhifyn yr haf newydd ymddangos - rhif 89 ac yn dal i gyfrif. Tanysgrifiwch am £10 y flwyddyn (dau rifyn gan gynnwys y post). Ni chewch well bargen yn unman. cmcspublications.com

The Bull of Urban VIII founding St Isidore’s Irish Franciscan College Rome. 20 Oct 1625 - the 400th anniversary is very near. And the letter of the Franciscan Minister General to the Irish Province concerning the foundation #otd 13 June 1625.

🚨 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.

"Designing sustainable Digital Editions." This is a lightly revised version of a talk I gave at the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in Maynooth on 26 May 2025. Many thanks to Nora White for the invitation and to the audience for discussion and feedback. www.pmoran.ie/posts/sustai...

Excited this is out - lots of Columban loveliness from myself (on island monasteries), and papers by Heather Pulliam Gilbert Markus Victoria Thompson and many others clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph... OPEN ACCESS

How did early medieval Ireland connect with the continent? From sacred texts to sea routes, explore the cultural currents that linked Irish monks to Europe. Read about the major new exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland @currentarchaeology.bsky.social‬ the-past.com/feature/word...

🚨 Tar ag obair linn! We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff to provide core teaching to the programme of Irish Cultural Heritage (0.75 FTE) and the Department of Early Irish (0.25 FTE). ☘️ Deadline: 18.06.2025 Gach eolas | All information: buff.ly/TYhcuXi

Deis scoláireachta chun tabhairt fé PhD le hOllscoil Chaerdydd @cardiffuni.bsky.social @ysgolygymraegpc.bsky.social — mholfainn go hard bheith ag déanamh taighde leo, go háirithe dóibh le spéis sa phleanáil nó beartais teanga. Sásta aon cheist a fhreagairt nó téir ag caint le Diarmait!

Thugas cuairt ar an Róimh le déanaí chun freastal ar an gcomhdháil '400 Years of the Irish in Rome' a d'eagraigh Ollscoil Notre Dame & Coláiste Naomh Iosadóir. Ba mhór an tairbhe agus ba bheag an saothar!

📢 Clear your calendars! 🗓 On June 16th I'm hosting a day of talks on the Irish manuscripts in St Gall! The stellar line-up includes special guests from the Stiftsbibliothek. Tickets are free! Reserve here 👉 stgallmanuscripts.eventbrite.ie @historytcd.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #medievalsky

Available now on léamh.org: glossary to Cecile O'Rahilly (ed./trans.) Eachtra Uilliam. Get your own copy of this fascinating tale at shop.dias.ie/product/each... (currently on sale!). Thanks as ever to DIAS School of Celtic Studies (@scs-dias.bsky.social). Happy reading and translating, a chairde!

Words on the Wave in @nmireland.bsky.social: www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...

Ba dheas liom mo chuid taighde a chur i láthair ag Lá Taispeántais Taighde @cacsss.bsky.social inné. B’iontach blaiseadh a fháil den taighde fíorspéisiúil atá ar bun sa choláiste! @researchireland.ie @ucc.ie

An Irish-language poetry event in Edinburgh at the end of the month: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-poetry...

Reáchtálfaidh Roinn na Gaeilge agus na dTeangacha Ceilteacha, Coláiste na Tríonóide, comhdháil ar champas ar an 16ú Bealtaine 2025 / arna heagrú ag @manusrua.bsky.social agus Síle Uí Laighin. Bígí linn! 'Féith an Ghrinn sa Ghaeilge' www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...

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

Tionól 2025: 14-15 Samhain | November Gairm ar pháipéir Call for papers www.dias.ie/2025/05/09/t... #DIASdiscovers

Comhdháil na Bealtaine 2025 i gColáiste Mhuire gan Smál Luimneach Dé hAoine 23 Bealtaine. Bígí linn! Cláraigh le r-phost go dtí [email protected]

Publication day! Huge thanks to all our contributors and especially to @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social for steering the ship these past couple of years. Grateful to her LEIGHEAS project funded by #ResearchIreland for covering open access with @brepols.net! #medmedhistory www.brepols.net/products/IS-....

...I have been invited to speak at the annual Oxford-Cambridge Colloquium, organised by the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. I will present my new edition of Acaldam Ḟind ⁊ Oiséni "The Conversation of Find and Oiséne", one of the earliest extant Fenian tales. /2

Poetry Day: MAYDAY! le Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin www.rte.ie/culture/2025...