The ties between town and country are like the spokes radiating from the centre of a wheel, with diverse and enduring connections being forged between urban streetscaped and rural landscape. 'Town & country: Perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas' is out now! 📚

Many thanks to all who attended last night's lecture in Royal Irish Academy 'Mapping places, mapping people' by Howard Clarke and the launch by Vanessa Harding HistoricTownsTrust Town & Country: perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. ria.ie/news/irish-his… #IHTA #TownAndCountry

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr Michael Potterton on the launch of the book, Medieval Ferns. Edited by Stephen Mandal, Michael Potterton and Denis Shine, the book is available from all good bookshops and online from Four Courts Press fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/dis…

Archive & site visits, field trips & museum tours- an important part of our approach to teaching and learning Maynooth University Recently, Dr Michael Potterton has taken groups of undergrads to National Museum of Ireland , the Hill of Tara, the Boyne Valley & Medieval Trim.

The launch took place recently of Town & Country: perspectives from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (edited by Sarah Gearty and Michael Potterton). For more details and to purchase the book, please click here ria.ie/town-and-count…

New episode out now w/medieval towns expert Michael Potterton from Maynooth History. Were towns in Ireland introduced by the vikings? Were the Irish settled around monastic centres? What actually is a 'town' & what is 'monastic'? Find out now! Please like/subscribe/rate/review etc! 1/

Learn more about the golden era of Irish history, when Ireland became famed as the 'Isle of Saints & Scholars', with The Medieval Irish History Podcast supported by Early Irish Maynooth Maynooth University We are now Research Ireland New ep on towns in Medieval Ireland w/Maynooth History Michael Potterton open.spotify.com/episode/4UFn6V…

We are deeply saddened by the death of our editor and colleague, Raymond Gillespie, MRIA, on 8 February 2024. It is with great fondness that we remember his intellect, vision and friendship and our thoughts are with his wife Bernadette Cunningham. ria.ie/news/irish-his…

Are you interested in doing a Masters with us? Information session next Tues, 16 April from 11am-1pm. Come along and meet with staff; learn about the various Masters programmes and our scholarship options. Refreshments served.

We were delighted to give an Tánaiste Micheál Martin a preview of and present him with a copy of the Cork atlas in the IHTA office Royal Irish Academy today. IHTA Cork/Corcaigh will be available to buy from Friday 3 May 2024 here: ria.ie/cork-corcaigh-… #IHTACork

We got pretty excited in the Lego shop Dublin today to see a Medieval Town Square as part of the Icons range! For those wanting to find out more about (the lack of) towns in medieval Ireland listen to our podcast episode w/Michael Potterton of Maynooth University! open.spotify.com/episode/4UFn6V…

Almost ready to go here...the 22nd annual Historic Houses Conference looking forward to opening addresses by Prof Alison Hood Maynooth University & Katie Morrisroe Office of Public Works historicirishhouses

On Saturday 11 May our colleague Michael Potterton presented a lecture on ‘Contacts entre l’Irlande et le Royaume de France au Moyen Âge’ at a conference in the spectacular medieval Fort St André at Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon in Provence.

Our colleague Dr Michael Potterton will be appearing on the first episode of 'Invasion: The Normans', this Sunday, 2 June, on RTE One at 6.30pm.

📺Catch Dr Michael Potterton Maynooth History appearing on the second episode of 'Invasion: The Normans', this Sunday RTÉ One at 6.30pm. Catch the first episode here: rte.ie/player/series/… #InvasionTheNormans #NormansinIreland Tile Films Tourism Ireland

Looking forward to seeing our colleague, Dr Michael Potterton again this Sunday evening featuring on RTE's 'Invasion: The Normans'.

With best wishes to our first-year History student Amy Larn who is part of the Irish Olympic Team. She is a member of the Rugby Sevens squad, who played two matches yesterday and will play another two today. olympics.ie/athlete/amy-la…

Dr Michael Potterton Michael Potterton chairs session 1 Maynooth University Kildare County Council @brigid1500 Brigid‘s Worlds conference. Rightly highlights the key role of Niamh Wycherley and introduces Prof David Stifter David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 and his paper: The significance of Brigit. #Brigid1500

South Campus looking fab early in the morning 🌺 #AutismFriendly #MaynoothUni #StPatsCollege

Congratulations to Dr Michael Potterton (Teaching Award) and Dr Ciarán Reilly (Public Engagement with the MU Library) who received awards at the MU Presidents Awards ceremony in MU on Friday last.