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Leaving Cert Results 2025: Get Ready for Your Big Day!  - Schooldays.ie The moment your child has been working so hard for is just around the corner! For thousands of students across Ireland, Leaving Cert Results Day 2025 marks a

📣 Only 8 more sleeps until the Leaving Cert Results are out!

Some helpful information to read before Friday August 22nd.

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La rioccupazione nell’Insula meridionalis di Pompei dopo il 79 d.C. Riflessioni a margine dell’“inconscio archeologico” - Pompeii Sites L’Insula meridionalis, ovvero il quartiere meridionale del centro urbano antico di Pompei, che si estende tra la ‘Villa Imperiale’ a ovest e il Quadriportico dei Teatri a est, è attualmente … Continua

Did survivors come back? The E-Journal degli Scavi di Pompei has a new article on “La rioccupazione nell’Insula meridionalis di Pompei dopo il 79 d.C. Riflessioni a margine dell’“inconscio archeologico”—the reoccupation of an insula at Pompeii into the 5th century CE when some returned to the city 🌋

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Greater than Gibbon? Greater than Gibbon: A.H.M. Jones’ The Later Roman Empire 284-602 Edward Gibbon used it to create ‘modern’ historical writing; various German scholars nurtured it during the ninet…

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Just under a month to go - hope to see some old friends (grads old and new) at this event?

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What does Maynooth University mean to you? For many alumni, MU will always hold a special place in their heart. ❤️
As we gear up for our Alumni Reunion this September, we invite you to reflect on what MU means to you.
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Round up your classmates and make a table of it at the Maynooth University Alumni Reunion 2025. We have extended the Early Bird discount until Friday, June 13th. Use code MU25EB for €10 off the ticket price 👉 mu.ie/alumnireunion2025-tickets

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The image is a painting by Alexandre Cabanel called 'The Death of Icarus'. It shows Icarus collapsed on a beach with his wings broken beside him

Looking forward to hosting a one-day conference on Dealing with Failure in the Ancient World.

On August 22nd, the Dept. of Ancient Classics - with the Arts & Humanities Institute - will host international contributors exploring responses to failure in Graeco-Roman antiquity.

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📣It is finally Leaving Cert results month!

➡️Don't forget August 22nd is results day

➡️Check out the CAO website for all the important dates and deadlines
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'Nolan may be the only person who could do this': How The Odyssey is already gunning to be 2026's biggest film Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey has taken the unusual step of selling some tickets a year early. Is it a way forward for beleaguered studios – or just a stunt?

Ancient Classics are STILL engaging modern audiences!

🎥Christopher Nolan's hugely anticipated epic The Odyssey is due for release on July 17th 2026!

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Belfast Summer School classes are still going, but that's not all: next term's classes open for enrolment tomorrow, Wednesday.
We've got the usual Latin and ancient Greek classes, and some exciting history and culture modules.
Browse courses here helenmcveigh.co.uk/shop

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Many thanks to our wonderful colleagues in Coimbra for hosting the 16th Celtic Conference in Classics. Next up, the CCC returns to Ireland in 2026. Call for for panels now open. Please do spread the word - any questions or queries, contact classics@mu.ie

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Time ticking down ClassicsNow 2025 – Dublin, 31st Jan to 1st Feb. www.classicsnow.ie#2025Highlights

Many highlights, as always, in a festival that kicks off with a discussion between Yiannis Gabriel and @edithmayhall.bsky.social

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Projector screen reading "H.M. Classics Academy, Belfast Summer School, Class of 2024" and a box containing scrolls tied with red ribbon

A group of people in a casual seating area smiling at the camera, one us holding a coffee cup up to the camera in a "cheers" gesture

A cream coloured tote bag bearing the words "Latin and Greek are not dead ... they are immortal" next to a box containing scrolls tied with red ribbon

A group of people smiling at the camera. Most are standing and one is kneeling at the front. They are male and female, ranging in age from 10 - 80

It's the 10th Belfast Summer School and registration is open! Come to Belfast from 21st-25th July, or take a class online from 30th June-11th July. Classes in Latin, Classical Greek and ancient epic.
Special guests tbc in Belfast. Join us?
helenmcveigh.co.uk/belfastsummerschool
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Further details on the attached, for any interested.
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Painting by Claude Vignon, Croesus Receiving Tribute from Lydian

Dealing with Failure in the Ancient World
Many congrats to my friend Dr Leah O'Hearn, who just won a NUI research award. All to support new work on ancient responses to failure.
Conference in August 2025, call for papers deadline = 1st April.
Contact Leah for more details: Leah.OHearn@mu.ie

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A Cultural History of Love What role has love played in social, political and cultural life over the centuries? How have normative values and beliefs about love affected different social…

My buddy Han Baltussen is a co-editor of this massive 6 volume reference work, about love in antiquity.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...

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