Hello #medievaltwitter! As we've been celebrating the centenary of St Columba's birth, I thought, what better way to end the year than with a #transcriptionchallenge! Try your hand at Adomnán's Life of Columba from the Schaffhausen MS: fromthepage.com/nicolev/schaff… #colmcille1500

Tune in tonight! Donegal County Council Derry Strabane Cncl

Time to get excited!🤩 Pre-recorded papers in sessions 1 & 12 are now available to registered participants. #ICC1500

The original name for Derry was Doire Chalgaigh ‘Calgach’s oak-wood’, although it later it took the name of one of its most famous inhabitants appearing as Doire Cholm Cille ‘Columcille’s oak-wood’. St Columcille founded a monastery there in 546AD. #teaser eventbrite.co.uk/e/upns-sean-ma…

4.1 Patrick McAlary ‘Contested Succession at Iona (704–26)’ 4.2 Dr Neil McGuigan Dr Neil McGuigan ‘Dunkeld, St Columba and the Eleventh-Century Scottish kingdom’ 4.3 Dr Simon Taylor ‘“The Iona of the East”: Inchcolm, Dunkeld and the cult of Columba in eastern Scotland’

8.1 Dr Cormac Bourke ‘Hierarchies of scale in insular tomb-shaped shrines’ 8.2 Christina Cowart-Smith ‘Columban Crosses: Iona and the Development of the Freestanding Cross’

8.3 Dr Megan Henvey Megan Henvey ‘The Iconography of the Drumcliff cross: Reassessing the community’s Columban association’ 10.1 Andrew Bull Dr Andy Bull 'Sounding Hagiography: the later medieval adaptation of the Vitae Columbae for the Office of St Columba at Inchcolm Abbey’

10.2 Dr John Purser ‘The Inchcolm Antiphoner – a Columban legacy’

Do you have comments or questions for our speakers? Ask them here using our conference hashtag #ICC1500. You can still register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/columba-and-…

#MuseumsTogether #musexmas On Tue 7th Dec its 1500yrs since the birth of St #Colmcille /#Columba in #Donegal I made some Dove #decorations as his name translates to 'Dove of the Church' Enniskillen Castle: Fermanagh County Museum @OxonMuseum Colmcille Press/Cló Cholmcille St Columba Heritage StColumb's Cathedral #colmcille1500

We are back and recorded papers in two more sessions have been added to our website (registered participants only). Some really exciting papers looking at the #hagiography of #Columba in Session 3 and the #BookofKells and #BookofDurrow in Session 7 #ICC1500

#colmcille1500 birthday events tomorrow start in his birthplace of Gartan #Donegal Are there places near you linked to #Colmcille? Post them tomorrow to join the celebrations. Here’s Portcille #Inishowen Head, from where he’s said to have left Ireland for #Iona

1/4 Marking 1500 anniversary of his birth the digitized version of the Cathach of St Colum Cille has been launched on ISOS. Thanks to The RIA Royal Irish Academy Library & their amazing librarians for making their collections available through ISOS for all too see! isos.dias.ie/libraries/RIA/…

Just in time for Columba's birthday, a new documentary on his life airs tonight - featuring a wee cameo by myself and Ewan Campbell UofG Archaeology on our recent archaeological work on Iona

7 Dec 520: #Irish hagiographical schemes say St Colmcille or Columba - "the dove of the church" - was born #otd Associated with #Donegal, #Derry & #Iona, he is one of the three patrons of #Ireland (Bodleian Library Oxford MS. Rawl. B. 514)

We were invited to St Columba’s Heritage Centre on Saturday for a tour, cup of tea and to be presented with one of the new tops that has been sponsored by Derry Credit Union to commemorate the 1500th Anniversary of St Columba.

Why hello, April! 🌸 #VisitDerry #BrookePark