Ireland's oldest Christmas song - an antiphon sung on Christmas Day in Bangor c. 690: "From this day on, the night decreases and the day grows, the shadows are shaken and the light spreads, and debts to darkness give way to dividends of light".

Owing to the death of my dog’s grandfather, I am late posting this Tweet. newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…

Well, that was amazing. My first visit to Sceilg Mhichíl surpassed all expectations.

The new issue of The North American journal of Celtic studies is live on Project MUSE! Check it out: muse.jhu.edu/issue/50913 #CelticStudies The Ohio State University Press

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh will give the Statutory Lecture DIAS DIAS_SCS Library on #dindshenchas, Fri. 17 Nov. 8pm, Theatre R, Newman Building, University College Dublin: 'The whole landscape a manuscript': reading the environment in dindshenchas texts. The Leverhulme Trust Royal Irish Academy Library

Father-daughter costume this year. We’re dressed as the Annals of Inisfallen 824.3: “Skellig was plundered by the heathens”.

The in-person CSANA conference is back! Join us in New Jersey, April 4-7, at Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Details here; see you there! csana2024.wordpress.com

Very sorry to be missing the Tionól. Looks like a great program.

Delighted to share that Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland is in press and will be availble FREE on Open Access later this year and can also be pre-ordered in hard copy 📕🎉🤓Fantastic contributors!! Check it out 👇 bloomsbury.com/uk/classical-a…

There are some really big fans of the TCD fragment of the Book of Lecan in South Carolina.

💕💕💕Happy #ValentinesDay to all of our followers! Don't settle for anything less than being held in the tender, loving claws of a 16th century manuscript beast. 💕💕💕 (Dindshenchas, RIA MS D ii 2) #LibraryLoversMonth

Did you hear they’ve discovered a whole stash of satirical medieval poems and songs all about Italian cheese? They’re called the Carmina Burrata.

Hey Celticists! Do you feel like visiting New Orleans next January for the MLA conference?

I’m honoured to have been invited to give the O’Donnell Lecture in Celtic Studies at Oxford this year. Details below.

via @NYTimes some nice coverage here of a really great project. nytimes.com/2024/04/01/wor…

Very pleased to get my contributor’s copy of this volume in the mail today.

Save the date! The stunning weather in Maynooth today has me looking ahead to welcoming you all to campus Sept 13th & 14th for the Brigid's Worlds conference — a collab of Maynooth University Early Irish Maynooth & Kildare County Council Brigid 1500. More details to follow. email [email protected]

I got out on Mountain Island Lake for my first kayak outing of the year a couple of days ago. Peace and tranquility, a decent fish, and some stunning views.

Excited to see that this exceptional volume is now available to download for free (!!!) - Bloomsbury Collections - Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland. It’s the product of a great project and wonderful collaboration ⁦Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC)⁩ bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?doci…

This handsome volume just arrived feat. a study on classical elements in #dindshenchas by yours truly & excellent chapters by e.g. John Carey Dept of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC, M. Ní Mhaonaigh The Cambridge Dindṡenchas Project Gregory R. Darwin Cameron Wachowich Congrats 🥳 and massive thanks to Classical Influences and Irish Culture (CLIC) and Bloomsbury Academic