In our first CAMPS Lab of the academic year, Michael Clarke @GalwayClassics will speak on “Echoes of the Theban Legend in a Late Medieval Irish King-Tale” 08/11/24, 12:00 noon THB G0-10 CASSCS Research Alternatively, register for the ZOOM link here: forms.office.com/e/WCrXXM8wzw

Please consider supporting colleagues in Utrecht to save their BA in Celtic Studies. The programme is threatened with imminent closure after celebrating 100 years. Sign the Petition! chng.it/hWy2Dwr4HN via Change.org

In collaboration with @historyatgalway, we are inviting you to a seminar next Wednesday at 4 pm, in the Bridge room and on Zoom (see below for the signup link). Our Communications officer Christian Schweizer will be speaking about „The Early Medieval Scholar Dicuil and his World“

We are inviting you to a CAMPS Lab: This Friday, 29/11, at 12 noon THB G0.10 (in person only). Brian Walsh (County Museum, Dundalk) "Emphasising the story in history - the work of the curator". Free lunch. This is in addition to tomorrow's collaboration with the History Seminar

It is an incredible honour to receive the Johann Kaspar Zeuß Prize for my thesis on Dicuil’s De cursu solis lunaeque. Many thanks to Soc Celt Europaea and to everyone who supported my work, incl. Research Ireland TCD Histories (esp. my supervisor Immo Warntjes) TCD Centre for the Book Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH)

Three **salaried** PhD positions available in History at the University of Oslo, projects should relate to one of these themes: Democracy / Knowledge / Rights / Migration. Anyone interested in working on something medieval with me is welcome to email me jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

The Department of Celtic Studies (IAAK, Uni Bonn) will host the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies from 27th to 30th August 2025. The deadline is 28th February 2025. Our email is [email protected] We look forward to receiving your contributions!

Auch im neuen Jahr eine kleine Erinnerung an ein #Jobangebot: Am @dhiparis bieten wir aktuell eine Promotionsstelle an (max. 3 Jahre) - und man kann sich noch bis zum 6. Januar 2025 bewerben! 👇

We are pleased to announce our upcoming CAMPS Lab: Anthony Candon Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages Friday 28 February 12 noon THB G011 CASSCS Research University of Galway

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 Post-IrCaBriTT on medieval recorders and bagpipes! Friday, 7 March 12pm THB G010

Here is a video of one of the highlights of yesterday’s CAMPS Lab: Jacopo Bisagni Post-IrCaBriTT is playing medieval bagpipes in a demonstration accompanying Simone Marcenaro’s paper ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’

Have you ever wondered how a medieval scholar applied for grants (of horses)? This week Dr Christian Schweizer gives all the deets about the political and academic life of Dicuil and other Irish scholars at the Carolingian courts in our podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/3bLL7x…

It’s a dream come true for me to have been interviewed about Irish scholars at the Carolingian court for The Medieval Irish History Podcast 😊. I also had a fantastic time in Maynooth last week for the recording Research Ireland CASSCS Research

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPS_Galway), I am thrilled to announce our next event: Ian Wong, ‘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!

My new book ‘Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries’ is now available to pre-order online, by clicking the link below. Save 20% by using the code: 25SMA2 routledge.com/Irish-Kingship…

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPS_Galway), 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)

Very excited to be giving the following public lecture during National Heritage Week on Thursday 21 August at the National Library of Ireland on the library's extraordinary collection of medieval deeds and charters nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

We are very proud of a strong presence of Galway employees and alumni at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, which was a fantastic event and marvellously organised by Elena Parina and her great team in Bonn on behalf of the Societas Celtologica Europaea: (1/7)

Christian Schweizer, Research Ireland fellow in Classics, currently on placement at the Research Office, gave a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil (2/7)

2. Many thanks to Chiara Corongiu and Luke McDermott for taking over from Christian Schweizer (yours truly) as Communications Officers. It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve in this role for the last two years. Great to know the role is in good hands. All the best!👋🙋🏼‍♂️