Dr Sarah Corrigan

Funny to think that in my lifetime I’ve seen a shift from educators warning students not to use Google and Wikipedia as sources for academic pieces, to teachers suggesting kids check and verify their AI search results by reference to Google and Wikipedia.

Research-Creation in the early Middle Ages: the example of Hibernicus Exul : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> The pivotal role played by Irish scholars in preserving and transmitting ancient learning during the early Middle Ages is well known even beyond the academy, thanks to popularising works such as ‘How the Irish Saved Civilization’. Yet a great deal of work remains to be done on individual Irish figures working in continental Europe during the eighth to tenth centuries in order to establish more rigorously the Irish contribution. The shadowy figure known as ‘Hibernicus Exul’ (‘the Irish exile’) provides an ideal test-case for this work: the author of thirty-eight Latin poems, on scholarly, political, and comic topics, his works appear in a single manuscript, Vatican Reg. Lat. 2078. This is an important and influential poetic anthology from the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of intense cultural and intellectual activity in eight- and ninth-century Europe during which the literature and learning of the ancient Graeco-Roman world was rediscovered and concerted efforts were made to standardise and widen access to educational systems, with significant consequences for the intellectual history of western Europe. The PhD student recruited will write the first monograph-length study of Hibernicus Exul, setting his work in the context of the manuscript, addressing the controversial question of his possible identification with the better- known Carolingian scholar Dúngal, and demonstrate how the poet exemplifies the nature of medieval Irish literature, which simultaneously aims to educate and to entertain, and can in many ways be seen as a predecessor of today’s Research-Creation. </p> <p> <strong>Please note below additional requirements when submitting your Expressions of Interest:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Additional requirements: <ul> <li> <strong>Statement of research interest [max. 1000 words]</strong> </li> <li> <strong>MA in a related field, or equivalent, to be completed by the programme start date.</strong> </li> <li> <strong>Evidence of at least six semesters of Latin, or equivalent, with grades of B+ or higher, or equivalent</strong> </li> </ul> </li> </ul>

#MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITY:
Co-supervised by myself and Cillian O'Hogan, University of Toronto

Project start: September 2027, with time in #Toronto, France, & @unimelb.edu.au. #Scholarship includes tuition fees, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support.

Get in touch!

Antichthon Vol. 58 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @selsvold.bsky.social @quidamabo.bsky.social @stephanieframpton.bsky.social @catharineedwards.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Arthur Boyd & Saint Francis of Assisi. Pastels, lithographs & tapestries 1964 – 1974 - by [BOYD, Arthur]. PONT, Margaret Hardcover in good condition except for slight damage to dust jacket as shown

Scoop up Maragaret Pont on Arthur Boyd, one of many many projects supported by #MargaretMannion

Exhibit honouring Professor Mannion open for one final week from 23rd February! potter-museum.unimelb.edu.au/whats-on/exh...

YouTube video by Stella Motion Pictures Celebrating Margaret Manion IBVM AO

‘Celebrating Margaret Mannion IBVM AO’

Illuminating Minds - A Symposium and Concert of Margaret Manion Illuminating Minds exhibition, a two-part event reflecting on the legacy of Professor Emerita Margaret Manion.

Attending this incredible event today - what a woman, what a legacy! #MargaretManion #Manuscripts

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The spring Library newsletter is live! Take a look to discover more about our current exhibition, upcoming events, blogs, podcasts, and more!
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𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘆𝗽𝘀𝗲𝘀
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙖́𝙣 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣
John Carey

More Info: bit.ly/3OyLT6A

#Eschatology #Translation #Irish #Apocrypha #Bible #Christianity

‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland The 85-year-old magazine will return to the city for which it was named after a successful bid by Queensland University of Technology * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name. The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal, whose life was cut short by Melbourne University Press in September. Continue reading...

‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland

"a volume that scholars interested in reception studies cannot afford to miss" - #classicalreception @ BMCR #review Fernando Lozano on Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Leire Olabarria, The ancient world in alternative history and counterfactual fictions bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02...

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!

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Check it out! #ClassicsNow2026

ClassicsNow The Future of the Past - Dive into the art, literature and ideas of the Ancient Greeks and Romans as interpreted and reimagined by outstanding artists today. Dublin and online, 30 January - 1 February...

Another blinder of a programme emerging for the hybrid ClassicsNow festival – get on the mailing list!

www.classicsnow.ie

Graphic promoting AWAWS lunch time workshop at ASCS 47 on Tuesday February 3rd 2026 from 1-2pm at the University of Auckland

Join AWAWS at ASCS 47 for a lunchtime panel/workshop discussing the decolonisation of ancient history, indigenous heritage in museum spaces, and museum artefact repatriations!

We hope to see you there!

Four of our postgraduate researchers speaking at the Australasian Society for Classical Studies conference @aucklanduni.bsky.social this week - wishing them all the best with their papers!

Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).

Please share widely!

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Ahead of tomorrow's inevitable
deluge of social media imboloxology, this, by @elvabjohnston.bsky.social is the most significant piece of relevant scholarship in years. Do yourself a favour...

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The jobs you had? Nah, tell me five classes you took at uni:

The History of the Supernatural

Medieval Heresy

The Medieval World

Witchcraft & Demonology

The Idea of the Sacred

If you want to study early medieval history in Australia, check our course list: aema.org.au/medieval-stu...

Born-Again Brigit - Birthday boy Frank McNally on the rebranding of February 1st Unlike St Patrick, there is no historical record of her life, so her identity can be endlessly refreshed or reimagined

D vs. T?

It's the 31st January 2026, and the Irish Brigidine publication business is in full steam. In the Irish Times today, @frankie49.bsky.social asks the question "Brigid or Brigit?". What is the correct spelling?
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As it happens, I will answer this...
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CCC 2026 at Maynooth Uni. Host site for the 2026 Celtic Conference in Classics, at Maynooth University

Reception-related panels #CFP Celtic Conference in Classics (Maynooth, 14-17 July): Receptions of Homeric Scholarship in Antiquity; Lyric Forms, Modern Worlds; Classical Antiquity and Northern Ireland; Gramsci, Marx, and the Pre-Capitalist World. All panels: cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io/panels-full

Murmurations over the Palatine Hill and Roman Forum(behind)!!! This is not a drill!! Augurs of Bluesky what does this foretell?🏺🐦‍⬛

Ink and wash drawing of Minimus, the Latin mouse, watching a bright star.

vicesimo quarto die Decembris, Minimus stellam invenit. (On the 24th of December, Minimus finds a star.) #latinadventcalendar

On January 16th, Professor Michael Clarke will present on 'The History of the Irish Book: The Handwritten Book in Ireland' at an Éigse Cholm Cille event on Columban Landscapes and Irish Manuscripts #celticstudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

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New e-codices Newsletter No. 62 (2025) webapps.unifr.ch/newsletter/c... @fragmentarium.bsky.social

christmas decorations hanging on a string with numbers 1 through 24 ALT: christmas decorations hanging on a string with numbers 1 through 24

For our VIEWS advent calendar this year we are going to highlight a different script every day, with something to watch or read from our archives.

#adventcalendar #adventcalendar2026

ClassicsNow The Future of the Past - Dive into the art, literature and ideas of the Ancient Greeks and Romans as interpreted and reimagined by outstanding artists today. Dublin and online, 30 January - 1 February...

Another blinder of a programme emerging for the hybrid ClassicsNow festival – get on the mailing list!

www.classicsnow.ie

New from me in @parergon.bsky.social "Making Excuses: The Diplomatic Anxieties of Edward I of England". Hit me up if you want to read it but don't have access. #MedievalSky

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

"These disparate sources have never before been brought together in a way that offers such an insight into the nature of Celtic languages spoken in these islands at the dawn of the historical period."

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So proud of my @flindersuniversity.bsky.social PhD researchers, Kate Lawrence and @danclaggett.bsky.social who gave their first ever @anzamems.bsky.social papers last week. Fantastic work!

Post-conference office syndrome… (and yes, that is a travel cup containing what was tea and is now a science experiment) 🧑‍🔬