Concluding Session 1715, we have Jack Roskilly (@Sorbonne-Universite.fr) virtually talking about ‘Knowing the Enemy: Bishops and the Circulation of Knowledge on Heresy between Constantinople and the Provinces’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Secondly, in Session 1715, we have Sophio Guliashvili (University of Georgia (Tbilisi 🇬🇪)) describing ‘Two Georgian Monks from Mount Athos and Their Remarkable Intellectual Legacy in Georgia and Byzantium’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

First, in Session 1715 (Programme page 397), we have Márton Rózsa (@UniVie.ac.at) elucidating ‘Spatial Movement and Knowledge Transfer in 11th-Century Hungary’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Concluding Session 1602 is Jianchang Liu (NENU, Changchun) presenting on ‘Between Openness and Closeness: The Spatial Narrative of the ‘Lives of St Ioannikios’ and the Making of Holiness’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Secondly, in Session 1602, we have Aleksandar Savić (University of Belgrade), ‘Even unto Bonds: Spaces of Confinement in South Slavic Hagiography, 13th-16th Centuries’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

First, in Session 1602 (Programme page 368), we have Sirun Grigoryan (@uahes.bsky.social) describing ‘Faith in Darkness: The Prison as a Space of Sanctification in the Life of St Shushanik’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Finally, in wrapping Session 1320, we have Adrian Doyle (@andubhghailleach.bsky.social / @GalwayClassics.bsky.social) talking on the concept of ‘Using Data Science to Explore the Relationships between Glossed Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Secondly, in Session 1320, we have my colleague Chiara Corongiu (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) delivering ‘A Survey of Glossing in Early Medieval Irish Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

First, in Session 1320 (Programme page 321), we have my colleague Pádraic Moran (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) elucidating ‘The Origins and Uses of Three Greek-Latin Bilingual Biblical Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Finally, in Session 1220, we have Joseph Flahive (@RIA.ie) speaking on ‘The Origins of the St Gall Gospels, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 51: A New Investigation’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Secondly, in Session 1220, we have Nicole Volmering (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) elucidating ‘Evidence for an Irish Scriptorium?: A Codicological and Palaeographical Assessment of St. Gallen, MS 904’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

First, in Session 1220, we have Peter Fraundorfer (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) delivering a detailed discussion on ‘A Private Library of One Irish Scholar?: A Collective Handwriting Comparison of a Group of 9th-Century Insular Manuscripts with Reichenau Provenance’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Finally, in Session 1120, we have Immo Warntjes (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) talking on ‘Móengal and Fáelán: Two Irish Schoolmasters and Their Influence at Early Medieval St Gall’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Secondly, in Session 1120, we have Mathew Clear (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) discussing ‘The Assimilation of Unusual Aspects of Irish Time Reckoning into Carolingian Paschal Tables’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

First, in Session 1120 (Programme page 273), we have my own supervisor, Jacopo Bisagni (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social), with Lise Carrel-Bisagni, virtually elucidating ‘Early Irish Learning in Brittany: How Did It Get There?’ (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Concluding Session 1020, we have Jiachun Xu (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) covering ‘The Insular Influence on Carolingian Understandings of Creation’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Secondly, in Session 1020, we have myself elucidating one manuscript of the ‘Irish Reference Bible’ in “‘Today, you will be with me in paradise’: Notes on Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 447 (376) and the Textual Transmission of ‘Pauca problesmata’”. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

First, in Session 1020 (Programme page 252), we have my own colleague Christian Schweizer (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) discussing ‘Dicuil’s Grammatical Texts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

The conclusive talk for Session 515 is Janine Su (@theBIAAnkara.bsky.social), ‘Hanutçu, Then and Now: Navigating Place and Memory on a World Stage’. #IMC2025

Second, in Session 515, we have Samuel England (@UWMadison.bsky.social), ‘An Arabic Anatolia in Egypt: Literature, Politics, and Religion’. #IMC2025

First, in Session 515 (Programme page 144), we have Sergio La Porta (@Fresno_State) discussing Armenian translators of Middle Byzantine Greek in texts in ‘Translating Byzantium: Collaborative Translators in Constantinople’ #IMC2025

Second, in Session 101 (Programme page 57), we have Christina Antenhofer (Fachbereich Geschichte, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) elucidating a 16th-century talking horsehide ( ! ) in ‘The Potential of Object Biographies for the Economic History of the Middle Ages’. #IMC2025

First, in Session 101 (Programme page 57), we have Elisabeth Gruber (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg), ‘Building Bridges: Object Biographies as an Invitation for Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue in Economic History’. #IMC2025

Yesterday, before speaking at the Medieval Congress at Leeds (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) this week, I fulfilled a childhood dream in visiting the amazing National Rail Museum (@RailwayMuseum.bsky.social) in York! 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

🍀 2️⃣ 🐳 The long-promised surprise that is the culmination of both the abruptly terminated Advent Calendar from last Christmas and my post for this feast-day of Saint Brendan, which has been under wraps since last autumn, finally beckons. 🧵 [1/11]

🍀 1⃣ 🐳 Today (16 May) represents one of my favourite days of the year, as it is the feast-day of Saint Brendan, who I have written about in this space on a few occasions. 🧵 [1/10]

Habemus papam! 🇻🇦

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: ‘’De Quolibet’: Research from the MA Medieval and Antiquity: A CAMPS Symposium’, on Friday 16/05 12p in THB G010. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome! (@uniofgalway.bsky.social)

Learning about the development of the calendar and the role of the almanac in early modern Ireland through the latest CAMPS Lab (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social): Ian Wong (@ianleewong.bsky.social), ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’!

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: Ian Wong (@ianleewong.bsky.social), ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’, on Friday 25/04 12p in THB 1001. Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), we are thrilled to host Jasmim Drigo (@JasmimDrigo.bsky.social) in her event today, ‘Lost in Transcription? The [IPA] for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’!

We are looking forward to tomorrow's round table on ‘Future Days of Researching the Past’ with @erinannmcc.bsky.social (English; @stemma.bsky.social ), @padraicmoran.bsky.social (@galwayclassics.bsky.social), and @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social (@historyatgalway.bsky.social)!

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our upcoming event: Jasmim Drigo (@jasmimdrigo.bsky.social), ‘Lost in Transcription? The [IPA] for Language Learning and Research: A CAMPS Workshop’, on Friday 04/04 12p in THB G010. Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am very proud to announce our next special event, ‘Future Days of Researching the Past: A CAMPS Roundtable’, to take place next Friday (28/03) at 1p in the Bridge Room (THB 1001). Lunch will be provided following the event. All are welcome!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! ☘️

Beannachtaí na Féile Phádraig! ☘️🇮🇪📜

I love seeing the reception of Irish saints and literature in the Byzantine sphere, especially before the Great Schism! 🤩🍀📜

On behalf of CAMPS (@campsgalway.bsky.social), we’re most pleased to welcome Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise) on ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, from Manuscripts to Performance’, feat. live performances by Jacopo Bisagni w/ medieval recorders & bagpipes!

You are most welcome to our next lab: Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise) ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’, with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social on medieval recorders and bagpipes! Friday, 7 March 12pm THB G010

For our latest CAMPS Lab (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), we are proud to host Tony Candon on ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’!

You are most welcome to join us (@UniofGalway.bsky.social) this Friday 28/03 at 12p for the next CAMPS Lab (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) by Anthony Candon on ‘Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages’!

One of my new favourite decorated initials! 🤩🌊📜

For the first CAMPS Lab (@campsgalway.bsky.social) of the term at the University of Galway (@universityofgalway.bsky.social), we are pleased to welcome Millie Randall discussing ‘Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies’! 📜

Meanwhile, I’m barely back in Galway, and we’re on the precipice of a Category 2/3 hurricane sweeping across all of Ireland… Entire island is under a Red Alert, with a ‘Finnegan’s Wake’ allusion at that! 😬☔️

This Christmas holiday was too brief! However, it was restful enough, between three weeks in South Florida and a week in Rhode Island… And now, I’m flying back to Galway from the States to continue Year 2 of my PhD! 🏝️✈️🍀

🎄 1️⃣7️⃣ 🎄 One of the most hospitable experiences I have had in sourcing the limited number of copies of this rare edition of the ‘Voyage of Saint Brendan’ (‘Nauigatio sancti Brendani’) brings this adventure of an Advent Calendar to Missoula, Montana. 🧵 [1/6]

🎄 1⃣6⃣ 🎄 One of the most surprising locales in which I was able to confirm a copy of the limited edition version of the ‘Voyage of Saint Brendan’ (‘Nauigatio sancti Brendani’) brings this Advent Calendar to the capital city of the Last Frontier: Juneau, Alaska. 🧵 [1/22]

🎄 1⃣5⃣ 🎄 Within a few days after I arrived back in Galway at the end of August, I set aside another day that week to visit several libraries in Dublin to ascertain the whereabouts of more copies of the limited edition of the ‘Voyage of Saint Brendan’ (‘Nauigatio’). 🧵 [1/8]

🎄 1⃣4⃣ 🎄 My adventure of a side-project that has been the pursuit of the whereabouts of the copies of the 1976 limited edition of the ‘Voyage of Saint Brendan’ (‘Nauigatio sancti Brendani’) has led me to a plethora of locales. 🧵 [1/10]

After a wonderful and deeply moving experience at a Cistercian monastery, I’m off to Florida for a much-needed Christmas rest! ⛪️ [Charleston, South Carolina] ✈️🏝️🎄 [Tampa, Florida]