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"the products of fifteenth-century penmanship suggest a posse of porcupines" Palaeographical description should be like this more often.

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Many manicules for the Ten Commandments, in a copy of the Pentateuch printed at London by John Day in 1551. Part of the Bible Society collection @theulspeccoll.bsky.social BSS.201.B51.10.

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This week we bring you our very own @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social! On ‘soft power’, what is patronage, the #nuntastic Agnes, ‘An Caillech Mór’ (d.1196), St Mary’s monastery, Clonard, & the study of medieval Ireland. Tiago's work is funded by @researchireland.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1eEq...

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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!

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Hugely exciting to be able to advertise the Professorship in Latin Palaeography at the History Faculty @ox.ac.uk in conjunction with @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, and to join the world's largest community of medievalists @oxmedstud.bsky.social medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/02/27/j... #medieval #palaeography

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Question for the hive-mind: at what universities is Old Irish taught at a beginners' level?

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Join us Thursday for our first Early Irish Research Seminar of the semester. ‘Culpability and Liability: Guilty Mind in Early Irish Law’ Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova (@scs-dias.bsky.social, DIAS) Thursday 27th February, 5pm in the Iontas Building, Maynooth University.

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#medievalsky Oxford's Faculty of History is looking to appoint an Associate Professor in Medieval Latin Manuscript Studies. Job details on the university website at my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Job alert!! Come work with us @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social on my Pathway project, 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the 6th to 12th centuries' @researchireland.bsky.social. Apply below. Email me for details. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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A piece I wrote about Oxford Corpus Christi College MS 129 for Feb 2025’s issue of ‘Sundial’. www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/sundi... This 16th century Irish Medical Manuscript was written by An Gilla Glas Ó Caiside. See also leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man... @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social

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13 March, the John Bannerman Memorial Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Prof Deborah Hayden (Maynooth). Details 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-banne... #histmed #GaelicHistory #MedicalHumanities #CelticStudies #LámhscríbhinníGaeilge

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Honoured to be giving this lecture in memory of a scholar whose work has been so influential on my research into the medical manuscripts of the medieval Gaelic world. Looking forward to bringing the @researchireland.bsky.social LEIGHEAS project @muahi.bsky.social to Edinburgh in March!

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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for February 2025 is TCD MS 1315, containing an Irish version of Magninus of Milan's Regimen sanitatis, a commentary on the Colliget of Averroes by the Irish physician Tadhg Ó Cuinn, & more! leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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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!

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An article I have written with @davidstifter.bsky.social has just been published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: ‘Ogam, Cryptography and Healing Charms in the Nineteenth Century: Observations on “The Minchin Manuscript”’ Available fully #OpenAccess here! muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

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A Date for the Diary!📆 Hugely looking forward to hosting this workshop in Cambridge next June in collaboration with the excellent eDIL project (www.dil.ie). Bringing together research on medical terminology in medieval Irish, Welsh, English, French, German & more. All welcome! Details to follow...

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My brilliant colleague @chantalkobel.bsky.social & I are among the lecturers @scs-dias.bsky.social this semester, speaking on aspects of the history of scholarship in Celtic Studies. The information on the poster can also be found at this link: www.dias.ie/2025/02/10/l...

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Inniu - today Narratives of early British Christianity in Jocelin's Life of St Kentigern and other 12th century texts saims.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/barry-...

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I'm looking forward to giving this lecture on Friday. If you're in Utrecht, do come along!

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Workshop on: 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 Dr Bernhard Bauer @bernhardbaver.bsky.social (Gloss.IT project; University of Graz) 10 February 2025 9:30-13.00 Room 68, Arts Building Maynooth University @maynoothuni.bsky.social Details see below ⬇️

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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

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Job advert: Postdoctoral researcher in my DiAgnostic project (funded by a @researchireland.bsky.social Advanced Laureate award) Details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... Deadline: 23 February 2025

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It's nearly St Brigit's Day! So naturally we have an episode for you on ... the conquest of Ireland, 1169! Thanks to the brilliant (& patient!) @colinveach.bsky.social for explaining the English angle on the 'Anglo-Norman' Invasion. King Henry II, Strongbow & more. open.spotify.com/episode/1Gjz...

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Coming soon - and it will be available fully #OpenAccess!! 🎉

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Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies Prize for young scholars.

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In honour of the upcoming long weekend in honour of St Brigit/Feb 1st, see below a great article by Tiago Veloso Silva on some of the great Irish women who came after Brigit in Kildare @maynoothuni.bsky.social @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Gairm ar pháipéir Call for papers (Re)creating stories: rewritings and adaptations of Old and Middle Irish texts in Early Modern and Modern Irish DIAS, BÁC, 23-4 Bealtaine 2025 / DIAS, Dublin, 23-4 May 2025 Sprioc: 31 Eanáir Closing date: 31 January www.dias.ie/2024/11/05/c...

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A professor was lecturing to his English class: “In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, a double negative is still a negative. However, there's no language where in a double positive can form a negative.” A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.”

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Beidh an Scoil Samhraidh sa Léann Ceilteach ar siúl arís i mbliana & is féidir clárú fós. Spriocdháta 31 Márta! Tá tuilleadh eolais le fáil sa nasc thíos. The Celtic Studies Summer School will take place this year & registration is open until 31st March! Further information available in the link👇

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📻Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish on St Brigid on the Bitesize Irish Gaelic podcast Podcast 175: All about Bríd with Dr Niamh Wycherley www.ivoox.com/en/podcast-1...

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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

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

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This is such excellent news — congrats Chantal! Dr Kobel did a brilliant episode with us on the podcast recently about medieval Irish manuscripts, how they were made, the skills needed to study them, where you can see them, belt books, quills as weapons etc etc! open.spotify.com/episode/4Nzw...

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Another year, another LEIGHEAS project blog on medieval Irish medicine! This month, Dr Siobhán Barrett @siobhbar.bsky.social takes a look at two of the more common ingredients used in Irish medical remedies for a range of ailments: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/the-land-of-...

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I'm delighted to join the wonderful LEIGHEAS project @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social as a research affiliate!

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New article out: David Stifter, ‘Observations on the use of attention markers in Comrac Líadaine ⁊ Chuirithir’, Studia Celtica Posnaniensia 9 (2024), 135–161. doi.org/10.14746/scp... pdf: pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sc...

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Studia Celtica 2024, issue 58, is out! Prepared jointly by @Ganolfan and @UniWalesPress. A hearfelt thank you to the diligent members of the editorial board, to Gwen Gruffudd, and especially to the authors for a great collection of articles and reviews. 1/2

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Memo from WT Cosgrave to M Collins: “[TM] Healy states that Lismore Castle is most important, not from any military necessity...but from various points of view as it contains the Book of Lismore & a good many Irish [mss] of priceless value, and a very historic Crozier, probably that of St Carthage."

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Big thanks to Mairéad Finnegan for sharing her PhD research on dress & fashion in the 12th to 16th centuries. We chat sumptuary laws, tomb effigies, dodgy hairstyles, short shorts, long shoes & how the medieval Irish expressed themselves through their clothes. open.spotify.com/episode/738R...

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Senior Professor School of Celtic Studies position now open for applications. More information can be found on www.dias.ie/senior-profe... #DIASdiscovers

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The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month series is back for another year! Our January 2025 entry is @ria.ie MS 23 F 19, containing an original Irish treatise on anatomy, an Irish version of the Trotula texts on women’s medicine & much more👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Colloque – The Karlsruhe Bede in Context: Cod. Aug. Perg. 167 – The Making of a Ninth Century Manuscript rmblf.be/2025/01/08/c...

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