The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for July 2026 is London, British Library MS 15403, containing a tract on the properties of 167 ingredients. It's one of several Irish medical MSS recently digitised for the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project! leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 3, the Stowe Missal. Written in Latin between A.D. 792-803, the Stowe Missal is a Mass-book of the early Irish Church, small enough to be carried around for the use of a priest on his travels.

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for May 2026 is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G453, written primarily by Cathal Ó Duinnshléibhe in 1592/3 and containing this Irish translation of a popular versified work on health regimen: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

I am looking forward to speaking about Irish medical scribes from Co Mayo at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar on Monday next 27th April. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2026 is London, British Library MS Egerton 159, written in 1592 by the Leinster physician Tadhg Mac Caisín and recently digitised for the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project! Read more about it here: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done! #LámhscríbhinníGaeilge Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd

Another year, another series of Irish medical manuscripts! The LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month for January 2026 is Dublin, TCD 1357 (H.4.16), written in Co. Mayo in 1563 and containing several texts on uroscopy: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Tá forbairt á déanamh againn ar Gharraí na Gaeilge chun cultúr Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, idir sean agus nua, a chur in iúl. Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge. Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa

🌲2️⃣3️⃣🎁 Medieval Irish History Podcast The staff in the @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of Early Irish have a lot of experience when it comes to the public dissemination of their research, but none more so than Dr Niamh Wycherley. As part of her @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant, she started… 📖

2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026 Deadline: 5 January 2026 www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v... @dias.ie

📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄 www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...

206. Christmas before Christians

This week the wonderful Dr Niamh Wycherly from Maynooth University joins us to discuss what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year

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🌲1️⃣9️⃣🎁 DiⒶgnostic On 31 August 2023, the very last day of my sabbatical year 2022/3, I was informed by the IRC (@researchireland.ie) of the award of an Advanced Laureate Award for ‘DiⒶgnostic – Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish’. This four-year project started in December 2023. 📖

🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁 Cisalpine Celtic literacy Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/). 📖

🌲2️⃣1️⃣🎁 OPal+ As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central… 📖

🌲2️⃣2️⃣🎁 Irish manuscript culture Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and… 📖

The MS of the week is RIA MS D ii 1, the Book of Uí Mhaine. This late 14th century manuscript contains a late Middle Irish versified form of the 17 Wonders of the Night of Christ’s Birth. This apocryphal tradition includes miracles such as fruiting vines in the middle of winter🍇

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for December 2025 is TCD MS 1435 (E.3.30), containing Irish versions of works by Petrus de Argellata, Bernard of Gordon & John of Gaddesden, as well as this diagram of the 7 tunics of the eye: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

🌲1️⃣6️⃣🎁 Power and Patronage Dr Niamh Wycherley interests lie in the church history, the history of women in medieval Ireland, & patterns of patronage. After having received the @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social Publication Prize in History 2017 for ‘The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland’, Niamh won… 📖

🌲1️⃣7️⃣🎁 LEIGHEAS Prof Deborah Hayden’s research into the history of medieval and early modern Irish medicine continues with her second @researchireland.ie Laureate Award ‘LEIGHEAS – Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World’ 2022. The aim of LEIGHEAS (Irish for ‘remedy’… 📖

🌲1️⃣1️⃣🎁 Digital Gaelic Early 2020, Prof Deborah Hayden, Dr Nora White and I were awarded a UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Grant by the AHRC (@ukri.org) and IRC (@researchireland.ie) for ‘Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World’ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/.... 📖

🌲1️⃣2️⃣🎁 Ancient Celtic languages The Maynooth Department of Early Irish is not only known for its academic expertise in the cultural heritage of medieval Ireland. My other huge interest for more than 30 years has been the ancient Celtic languages of the Continent (Lepontic, Gaulish, Celtiberian). 📖

🌲1️⃣3️⃣🎁 OG(H)AM The next major international project, short title OG(H)AM, resulted directly from the Digital Gaelic project, again jointly funded by @ukri.org and the IRC (@researchireland.ie). Starting from a collaboration between Dr Nora White (Maynooth) and Prof Katherine Forsyth (Glasgow),… 📖

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Roinnt blianta ó shin thug David Stifter, ollamh le Sean Ghaeilge i Má Nuad, caint ag Imbolc . Ina dhiaidh sin thosaigh mé ag le...

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🌲1️⃣4️⃣🎁 Fierce Appetites Dr Elizabeth Boyle took a sabbatical year in 2020/1. Her break coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic and she used the year to reflect upon her life and to interweave her personal reminiscences with academic writing about medieval Ireland for a wider readership. 📖

🌲1️⃣5️⃣🎁 Latinate Inscriptions Following her 2006 PhD in Maynooth (an edition of the tales about Mongán mac Fíachnai), Dr Nora White became one of the leading scholar in Ireland for ogam inscriptions. She was the main person behind the development of the Ogham in 3D website (ogham.celt.dias.ie/)... 📖

🌲🔟🎁 Codices Eximii Hibernenses When he was Ollamh na Nua-Ghaeilge at @maynoothuniversity.ie, Ruairí Ó hUiginn initiated a conference series dedicated to the most important medieval and early modern manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy (@ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social). 📖

Ba ag Imbolc 2016, agus é ag caint ar an dtogra seo a chur mé aithne ar @davidstifter.bsky.social agus thosaigh á leanúint i Ríocht an Éin vimeo.com/179032429?tu...

David Stifter ag Imbolc 2016

Sa chaint seo tugann David Stifter, Ollamh leis an tSean-Ghaeilge i gColáiste Mhaigh Nuad, cur síos dúinn ar thionscadal úrnua atá…

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🌲6️⃣🎁 ChronHib 2015 was a turning point for me and the Department of Early Irish. After years of applying, with the invaluable support of @muresearch.bsky.social, I was awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant (@erc.europa.eu) for Chronologicum Hibernicum (ChronHib); full title… 📖

Tá cáil air i measc na nGael do éacht lasmuigh den Acadamh, i. Iallach a chur ar an Roinn Dlí agus cirt an foirm iarratais ar shaoránacht a chur ar fáil as Gaeilge. Ní gan dua a rinne sé sin. tuairisc.ie/fearg-fos-ar...

Fearg fós ar léachtóir sa tSean-Ghaeilge faoi dhearcadh na Roinne Dlí ar a iarratas saoránachta

Tá Dr Fangzhe Qiu míshásta go háirithe faoi aguisín a cuireadh le freagra a tugadh sa Dáil faoina chás le déanaí

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🌲7️⃣🎁 Annals and Law Dr Fangzhe Qiu worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the ChronHib project from 2015–20. His task was the digitisation of the Annals of Ulster, i.e., adding the annalistic entries for the years 554–950 into the CorPH database and analysing the word forms grammatically. 📖

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 22 The first feature that the DiⒶgnostic team investigated as an alleged marker of dialectal variation in Old Irish is the word(s) for ‘self’. The screenshot from eDIL (dil.ie/20990) gives an idea of the enormous proliferation of forms meaning ‘self’ in Old Irish sources. /1

🌲8️⃣🎁 Research seminars and conferences Dr Elizabeth Boyle established a series of three research seminars every semester in the Department of Early Irish as a forum for scholarly discourse and outreach in 2014. Since then, she and other colleagues have invited 66 scholars to speak in this series. 📖