On Thursday 13th March, Siobhán Barrett and I will take part in a workshop on ‘Medical Manuscripts and Medical History’ at The University of Edinburgh, kindly hosted by the Departments of History, Classics & Archaeology and Celtic & Scottish Studies. Sign up here! 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/medical-manu…..

And finally, on the evening of 13th March I’ll be giving the John Bannerman Memorial Lecture The University of Edinburgh, on ‘Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Gaelic World: Myth and History’ Registration details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-bannerm… All welcome!

The excellent Deborah Hayden last evening giving the John Bannerman Memorial Lecture The University of Edinburgh on 'Medical Practitioners in the Medieval Gaelic World: Myth and History’ to a full house and a large online audience.

Applications are now open The annual four year scholarship offering for 2025-2026 is €25,000 stipend, €2,000 research expenses plus EU fees each year. Applications can be made via the MU Apply portal - shorturl.at/kPHcJ

The LEIGHEAS Medical Manuscript of the Month for March 2025 is Edinburgh University Library MS La.III.21 ('The McBeath Gaelic Medical Manuscript'). Special thanks to @pomuirch for giving us the opportunity to see it in person recently! leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-manus…

Congratulations to Benedetta D'Antuono and Dylan Bailey, both PhD researchers Early Irish Maynooth, who have had their work on medieval Irish literature published in the latest Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium! Well done both 🎉

Huge congratulations to my brilliant colleague Chantal Kobel on this very well-deserved award - a fantastic project. The LEIGHEAS team is really looking forward to collaborating with her in her research on Irish medical manuscripts this coming year! 🎉🥳🎉

The website for the new Research Cluster ‘Mind and Material in the Middle Ages’ Maynooth University Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute is now live! Check it out to learn about all the cool Medieval Studies research happening at Maynooth: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-material-…

In this week's episode we are very grateful to Dr Janel Fontaine for her patience w/the technical difficulties we experienced & for chatting with us about how best to interpret the huge amount of evidence for slavery in medieval Ireland. open.spotify.com/episode/048YpT…

Hello everyone! See the new conference here Maynooth University with the Early Irish Maynooth ! This is our call for papers!

Post léachtóireachta in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad. Coicís fágtha le hiarratas a chur isteach. Ceist agat faoin ról? Cuir rphost chuig [email protected]. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecrui…

Join us Thursday for our next Early Irish Research Seminar of the semester. 🗣 ‘The "Syncretic Process" in Early Insular Vernacular Literatures’. Dr Colin Ireland (UCD/Arcadia University) Thursday 3rd April, 5pm in the Iontas Building, Maynooth University.

I very proudly present: the Spanish translation of my book on "Ogam. Language | Writing | Epigraphy" has just appeared in Zaragoza Uni Press. All ye hispanophones eagar on knowing more about ogam, go to: puz.unizar.es/3130-ogam-leng… More great news about the book hopefully soon.

The LEIGHEAS project Maynooth University Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute is thrilled to be co-hosting this workshop in Cambridge next June with the excellent eDIL team! Links to the programme, abstracts and registration are now live: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-material-…

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…

For the diary: Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture by David Stifter "Linguistic Contributions to a Model for the Celticisation of the Western Archipelago" Thu 8 May, 17:00 Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic University of Cambridge Register at: asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/event/8-m…

Why Sitric Silkenbeard is the greatest Dubliner of all time. He may be seen as one of the baddies of Irish history thanks to the Battle of Clontarf, but Silkenbeard built Dublin into a cosmopolitan city, writes Niamh Wycherley Maynooth University Research Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2025, brought to you by the excellent Siobhán Barrett, is Dublin, National Library of Ireland MS G8, a ‘pocket-size medical encyclopaedia’ with a Kildare connection: 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-manus…

Last evening, Dr Chantal Kobel Chantal Kobel (Early Irish Maynooth School of Celtic Studies MU Maynooth University) gave a captivating talk in the DIAS_SCS Library lecture series 2025 about how she re-discovered the manuscript of Cecile O’Rahilly’s study of Táin Bó Cúailnge, which had been lost for 44 years.

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for July 2025 is Dublin, RIA MS 23 N 29. It consists of 23 paper fragments, one of which is part of the sole surviving prosimetrical remedy collection in Irish. More here! 👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-manus…