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Dylan Bailey (he/him)

@djbirishhistory.bsky.social

PhD Researcher at the Early Irish Department at Maynooth University. Researching the depiction of disability in medieval Irish literature, as part of the Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World (LEIGHEAS) project.

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Amazing to see the Book of Lecan in the flesh during last week's brilliant conference at @ria.ie, hosted with @ceilteachomn.bsky.social and @scs-dias.bsky.social !

06.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is the subject of a two-day conference taking place this week in RIA, in collaboration with @maynoothuniversity.ie and the @dias-isos.bsky.social Read more and view the digital images, provided by Irish Script on Screen and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library: www.ria.ie/collections/...

29.09.2025 08:09 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery

Fantastic piece on a fascinating aspect of early Irish law, by my former PhD student and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social graduate, Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, who is now a postdoc at @scs-dias.bsky.social

#MedievalSky

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

29.09.2025 20:02 — 👍 44    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0

Visit Words on the Wave at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street before it closes on October 24th

www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

26.09.2025 11:39 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for the opportunity! This research was carried out as part of the Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World (LEIGHEAS) project led by my supervisor @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social in the @ceilteachomn.bsky.social at @maynoothuniversity.ie!

27.09.2025 01:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Irish Humanities Alliance | The Good, The Bad, and The Blemished: Disability Terminology in Medieval Ireland The language surrounding disability changes over time. There are certain terms which were previously common for describing disabled people but would now be considered out of date…

Delighted to have this post published by the @irishhumanities.bsky.social, where I discuss some of the terminology surrounding disability in medieval Ireland!

www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

25.09.2025 11:02 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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”Sunt lacrimae rerum...”
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), poet of Ancient Rome, whose epic Aeneid inspired Western art & literature, died #OTD 19 BC.
Landscape with Aeneas at Delos, 1672, by Claude Lorrain
National Gallery London

21.09.2025 05:08 — 👍 42    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Looking forward to hosting people at Maynooth this November! Everyone come down!

19.09.2025 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe "An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" published on 04 Aug 2025 by Brill.

Delighted to have a chapter on Irish medical writing published Open Access in this excellent volume, now available in print! Many thanks to @brendankanect.bsky.social and Patrick Wadden for all their hard work as editors:

brill.com/display/titl...

15.08.2025 18:03 — 👍 35    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks to you, Deborah, and to all the other contributors for their wonderful work. And thanks to Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for such an excellent job all around in producing the volume. Can't say enough about their professionalism and support; joy to work with. Enjoy, a chairde!

16.08.2025 11:04 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
Attendees at Celtic Studies summer school at DIAS standing on steps of the building.

Attendees at Celtic Studies summer school at DIAS standing on steps of the building.

Scoil samhraidh 2025: gabhaimid ár mbuíochas le gach duine a ghlac páirt inti, agus tá súil againn gur bhain gach duine leas agus spraoi aisti.
Summer School 2025: thanks to all who took part, and we hope everyone benefited from it and enjoyed it.
www.dias.ie/2024/11/12/c...

30.07.2025 13:25 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

29.07.2025 10:58 — 👍 335    🔁 166    💬 10    📌 19
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It's been an intensive but fulfilling last two weeks! Thank you to @scs-dias.bsky.social for hosting such an amazing event, I've learnt so much and would definitely recommend the Summer School to anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of the Celtic nations!

26.07.2025 07:53 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Royal Irish Academy, 2-3 Octover
shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap...

24.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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What an incredible time at this year's @celticstudents.bsky.social conference! Looking forward to seeing it come to Trinity next year. In the mean time, enjoy these photos from Aberystwyth, including an amazing sea view and an incredible gig from Welsh and Breton bands Sachasky and Plouz and Foen!

15.06.2025 16:20 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Ní hansae, The School of Celtic Studies Research Podcast Season 2: Trailer
YouTube video by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies DIAS Ní hansae, The School of Celtic Studies Research Podcast Season 2: Trailer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUd6...

It's back! Can't wait to see what else @dias.ie has in store for us. First episode is already available online!

15.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Looking forward to hearing from all the amazing speakers at @celticstudents.bsky.social conference in Aberystwyth!

11.06.2025 18:18 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Cyfieithu | Interpretation Cyfieithu | Interpretation Certain sessions will contain papers presented in a Celtic language. Simultaneous Interpretation to English will be provided for these papers so everyone can understand and...

Simultaneous interpretation will be available at our conference for all Celtic-language papers. Make sure to bring headphones and a phone/laptop with you to Aberystwyth to access the interpretation. Learn how interpretation on Zoom works here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

06.06.2025 20:23 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

(Go raibh míle maith agat to Eoin McEvoy at UCD for the photo!)

06.06.2025 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoyed attending and speaking at Comhdháil ar an Óige agus an Míchumas: Polasaí, Cleachtas, Cuimsiú agus Pobal na Gaeilge’ at UCD today, where I discussed the theory behind discussing disability in medieval Ireland. Learnt a lot from the other papers, and also got to practice my cúpla focal! GRMA!

06.06.2025 21:40 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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A few highlights from my trip to the Words on the Wave exhibition at the National Museum of Archaeology in Dublin, deffo worth a visit!

05.06.2025 20:22 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The first keynote speaker of the #Celticstudentsconference2025 is Mererid Hopwood (Aberystwyth University)!
She will deliver the keynote lecture Dychmygu Iaith: ‘merch perygl’ neu ‘cwch bach’ (Language Imagined: ‘the daughter of danger’ or a ‘little boat’). In this lecture,

01.06.2025 21:23 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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GET INVOLVED!
We will elect a new committee at the #celticstudentsconference2025 in Aberystwyth and online. This election is very important, as without students volunteering their time, the Association and the Celtic Students Conference would not exist!

29.05.2025 21:35 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
Association of Celtic Students | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree View celticstudents’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!

Our Celtic Students Conference 2025 is just around the corner!

Go to linktr.ee/celticstudents to register and view our Conference Schedule. 🔗

We look forward to seeing you all online and in Aberystwyth! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

25.05.2025 13:13 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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It was a great honour to speak yesterday at the @dias.ie conference '(Re)Creating Stories'. Shout out to @ninacnock.bsky.social for putting it on and to @lydiahursh.bsky.social for the photo. Thanks also to all the amazing speakers who have given me so much to think about in this area of study!

25.05.2025 19:41 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Really looking forward to speaking at this, what an amazing line up! Everyone come along!

21.04.2025 11:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So excited to finally announce the programme & registration for this wonderful conference in Dublin next month!!
Spread the word 7 bígí linn!

17.04.2025 09:47 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What is the Oldest Book of All? By Yvette Campbell, Assistant Librarian, Special Collections & Archives One of the most common questions we receive from guests and visitors to the Russell Library is “what is the oldest book y…

Have you ever wondered what the earliest printed book is in Special Collections at Maynooth? 🤔

It was a pleasure to uncover some important provenance information for this fascinating incunable and to collaborate with the Diocesan Library at Pelplin.

t.ly/_RvdP @maynoothuniversity.ie

#incunabula

01.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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I very proudly present: the Spanish translation of my book on "Ogam. Language | Writing | Epigraphy" has just appeared in Zaragoza University Press.

All ye hispanophones eagar on knowing more about ogam, go to: puz.unizar.es/3130-ogam-le...
More great news about the book hopefully soon.

31.03.2025 15:25 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Great visit to the National Folklore Collection @ucddublin.bsky.social, what a special place to explore!

31.03.2025 20:35 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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