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Irish Script on Screen is a project of the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Aims to create digital images of Irish manuscripts.
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie: www.ria.ie/collections/... The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket required.
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A very cool 18ᵗʰ/19ᵗʰ-century manuscript from the Russell Library at @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie. From p. 75 onwards (www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...), it contains a fascinating variety of "cryptographic" variants of the ogam script, including the "Vergean Cryptography" (i.e...
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Seimineáir SCS
SCS seminars
5 pm, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road
Luan/Monday: Prof Ruairí Ó hUiginn, `The rosc passages in Oideadh Chonlaoich'
Céadaoin/Wednesday: Dr Daniel Watson, `The Epitome of Eriugena's Periphyseon in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Auct. F. 3. 15.'
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3/3 ✒️ CF 23: Sagas, Poetry & Genealogies
Dublin, 1745–47, by Seán Ó Laochadh.
Fenian and Ulster Cycle tales, romantic adventures & historical lore.
Poems by leading bardic poets and extensive Irish genealogical material.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
2/3 ✒️ CF 15: Saothar Sheáin Uí Choileáin
Carraig na bhFear, 1842 by Pól Ó Longáin for Fr. Muiris Cinniféic.
Features Comhagal idir an Bás agus an tOthar (Death & the Patient) in Irish & English verse, plus a tract on Ogham, cryptography & the origins of Irish.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth
Two remarkable Irish-language manuscripts (18th & 19th c.).
Scribes include Pól Ó Longáin & Seán Ó Laochadh.
Dialogues, Ogham lore, heroic saga, poetry & genealogies.
🙏Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
@dias-isos.bsky.social
#DIASdiscovers
Visit @dias-isos.bsky.social to view the whole text: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...
You can also visit the @ucc.ie resource Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition (CELT) to view a transcription and to find more information about translations and critical editions. celt.ucc.ie/published/G2...
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
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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...
...It includes the name of the signs of the Zodiac, the planets, the months and numeral figures. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie: www.ria.ie/collections/...
19.01.2026 09:32 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Drawing of a man in profile smoking a long pipe in the margins of a medieval manuscript
Here's a scribe who drew what he would rather be doing than working - smoking a pipe. In the @kingsinns.bsky.social we hold numerous Irish Manuscripts that discuss the history of Ireland, Greek Myths and Christianity
www.isos.dias.ie/collection/k...
View it online with @dias-isos.bsky.social
It was written in Irish in 1631 at the Franciscan convent of Lisgoole beside Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh. About two thirds of the manuscript survives.
Learn more & view the digital images of the Manuscript (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social ©️RIA Library) on our website: www.ria.ie/collections/...
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...
4/4 ✒️CF 5: Dánta Diaga
Devotional poetry in Ó Mathghamhna’s hand (c.1842), on watermarked paper (1819).
Poets include Doamhnall mac Dáire, Donnchadh Mór Ó Dála, Aonghus Ó Dála Fionn, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird verses to the Passion, Cross, Mary, saints & salvation
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
3/4 ✒️ CF 4: Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh
Leabhar Muimhneach
Written 1840–42 in Carraig na bhFear by Pól Uí Longáin.
Sagas of Thomond + major Munster genealogies (Ó Súilleabháin, Mhic Cárthaigh, Ó Caoimh, Clann Charrtha, & more).
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
2/4 ✒️ CF 2: As Leabhar Leasa Móir
Written 1844–45 in Cork by Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna. Includes Leabhar na gCeart, saints’ lives, Saltair na Muice, An tAcallamh BEC. & lore on kingship and Fenians.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
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1/4📜✨New on ISOS: from the Russell Library, Maynooth
three 19th-c. Manuscripts for Fr. Muiris Cinniféic,
scribes Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna & Pól Ó Longáin.
Saints’ lives, genealogies, law, devotional, etc
links to Book of Lismore & the Leabhar Muimhneach.
🙏Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac. Written in Irish by Murchadh Riabach Ó Cuindlis, at Cluain Lethan and Lothra (Lorrha) in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary, it is the largest Irish vellum manuscript by one scribe.
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And also a huge thanks to @dias-isos.bsky.social for making it happen!
Really looking forward to discussing these manuscripts at @anzamems.bsky.social Conference in just three short weeks!
4/4With gratitude to Kathleen Kilmartin, Director of the Academic Centre (Newman & St Mary’s) for facilitating access to the Australian manuscript that inspired this project & to the Royal Irish Academy for their ongoing commitment to making Gaelic manuscripts accessible to all. Thanks also to DIAS.
11.11.2025 10:14 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
3/4 Digitising RIA MS 24 B 1 reunites this Táin text with the Seosamh Ó Longáin version on ISOS, offering new insight into the Ó Longáin scribal tradition and early Irish storytelling.
Explore the Australian manuscript here:
www.isos.dias.ie/AUS1/AUS_MS_...
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2/4 RIA MS 24 B 1 is now available on ISOS (link below).
🪶 A significant step in reconnecting Irish scribal tradition across hemispheres.
www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...
1/4📜 New on ISOS: RIA MS 24 B 1, a Táin Bó Cuailnge manuscript by Peadar Ó Longáin. Digitised with @dias.ie @ria.ie & @unimelb.bsky.social for @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS 2025. Thanks to Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social for underscoring its importance to Irish scribal tradition and the Táin.
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Read more about the Lebor na hUidre, view the digital images (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library) and explore the recordings and publications that were produced in 2012 at conference about the manuscript: www.ria.ie/collections/...
03.11.2025 09:29 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The manuscript is of Connacht provenance and from the names of places mentioned, likely written in Co. Roscommon.
Read more about the Liber Flavus Fergusiorum and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright Royal Irish Academy Library: www.ria.ie/collections/...
Duais eile ag Seán Ó Hoireabhárd de bharr a leabhair, The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Comhghairdeachas leis!
Another prize goes to Seán Ó Hoireabhárd for his book, The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion. Congratulations to him!
@hoireabhard.bsky.social
@dias.ie
Samhain agus Science 2025
Sraith léachtaí agus imeachtaí
Lectures and events
@dias.ie
www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...
Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm
www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...
Tar chuig an léacht seo le Viktoriia, 4 Samhain
Come to hear Viktoriia on 4 November
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www.eventbrite.ie/e/medieval-m...
Viktoriia from @scs-dias.bsky.social will be speaking on this subject as part of DIAS #SamhainAgusScience Full details of our 2025 programme will be revealed in early October so watch this space #DIASdiscovers #DIAS85
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