Christian Schweizer

Poster for Lecture by Dr Diarmuid Johnson. Lecture Entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension." 12th November. 1pm Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building Lunch to follow and all welcome!

🔔🔔 Our first CAMPS event of the semester!

Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."

Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize.

🗓️ 12th Nov
🕐 1pm

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Many congratulations, Seán!

2. Many thanks to Chiara Corongiu and Luke McDermott @galwayclassics.bsky.social for taking over from @cgschweizer.bsky.social (yours truly) as Communications Officers. It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve in this role for the last two years and to bring CAMPS to Bluesky early on. Bye!👋🙋🏼‍♂️

Der aktualisierte Call for Papers für unser Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter ist jetzt da! Die Frist für Bewerbungen endet am 30.11.2025. Bitte weitersagen oder selbst bewerben! #medievalsky #mediävistik #skystorians

Thank you, Elena - so did I, and it was a pleasure for me, too🙂

Thank you, Vinicius!

Likewise, I am very grateful to the Societas Celtologica Europaea, to all the other wonderful participants of the symposium, as well as to @researchireland.ie, @galwayclassics.bsky.social and the Research Office Galway for their support.

It also felt historical to give the perhaps first keynote ever on Dicuil, exactly 1200 years after his last sign of life, the publication of his books on ‘The First Syllable’ and ‘The Measurement of the Earth’, and seven years since I started work on Dicuil, funded by @researchireland.ie

It was a tremendous honour to give a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies in Bonn last Wednesday. I can’t thank @elenaparina.bsky.social and her team enough for the invitation, welcome, and the perfect organisation of the conference!

@cgschweizer.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie fellow at @galwayclassics.bsky.social gave a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil
(2/7)

So much looking forward to seeing you and the conference, too! In the train to Bonn right now 😊

The Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies starts tomorrow! So much looking forward to welcome all the wonderful scholars @cgschweizer.bsky.social @bernhardbaver.bsky.social @ninacnock.bsky.social @metamedievalist.bsky.social @medievalireland.bsky.social and a lot of others!

First, in Session 1020 (Programme page 252), we have my own colleague Christian Schweizer (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) discussing ‘Dicuil’s Grammatical Texts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Where is the Sun at Night? New Evidence from Laon, Médiathèque Suzanne Martinet, MS 422: The Journal of Medieval Latin: Vol 35 The article explores early medieval cosmological narratives concerning the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan), focussing on a text di...

Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.

The Medieval Irish History Podcast Podcast · The Medieval Irish History Podcast · Hosted by Dr Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engagin...

Nearing the end of season 2 & we've hit over 100K listens on the podcast 🥂. Thanks to all of our guests for sharing their time & expertise! Thoroughly enjoyed talking medieval Ireland over the last 38 episodes, more anon! @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie
open.spotify.com/show/1Gq9yIx...

JOB: We are looking for a new colleague for our working group on early modern global history at @unituebingen.bsky.social - PhD position, 3+1 years. Please spread the word (also beyond Germany!) and do not hesitate to get in touch! Deadline: 20 June. @duerrbortolotti.bsky.social

A fantastic opportunity to do a fully funded PhD at CAMPS and with @galwayclassics.bsky.social on linguistic obscurity in medieval texts!

Congratulations to Jacopo Bisagni and Paula Harrison on the release of their new monograph on Laon, B.M., MS 422 written in collaboration with Isabelle Draelants @cnrs.fr. This comprehensive study focusses on the scientific, cosmological, and computational content of this manuscript from ca 815.

We are looking forward our MA research symposium and book launch (and lunch😉), on tomorrow at noon!

The official promotional poster for ‘’De Quolibet’: Research from the MA Medieval and Antiquity: A CAMPS Symposium’, on Friday 16/05 12p in THB G010. The poster features elements from the Cloisters Apocalypse (MS 68.174 (ca. 1330), fols. 3r (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471869) and 20v (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471869)).

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: ‘’De Quolibet’: Research from the MA Medieval and Antiquity: A CAMPS Symposium’, on Friday 16/05 12p in THB G010. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome! (@uniofgalway.bsky.social)

PhD studentship available
‘The Lives and Miracles of St. Laurence O’Toole’.
To work on Latin texts of miracles of St Laurence under Dr Jesse Harrington (DIAS) and Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth University).
Deadline: 23 May 2025
Deis mhaith do laidneoirí!
#DIASdiscovers
@celticstudiesmu.bsky.social

Official promotional poster for CAMPS Lab: Ian Wong, ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’. It features an image from a preserved copy of John Bourk’s ‘Almanack’ (1683).

On behalf of CAMPS (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social), I am thrilled to announce our next event: Ian Wong (@ianleewong.bsky.social), ‘Revisiting the Almanac in Early Modern Ireland: Astrology, Power, and the Meaning of the Mundane’, on Friday 25/04 12p in THB 1001. Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

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Thank you very much, Charles!😊

Thank you so much, Niamh!

Dicuil and Irish scholars at the Carolingian Court with Dr Christian Schweizer The Medieval Irish History Podcast · Episode

This week on the pod we are joined by @cgschweizer.bsky.social who is conducting some brilliant @researchireland.bsky.social funded research in @galwayclassics.bsky.social on Irish scholar Dicuil & the craic had at the Carolingian Court in Aachen, early 9th century.
open.spotify.com/episode/3bLL...

Photos of Maynooth: St Patrick's College, Castle, Trees

It’s a dream come true for me to talk about Irish scholars at the Carolingian court in @niamhwycherley.bsky.social's Medieval Irish History Podcast😊.

open.spotify.com/episode/3bLL...

Also had a fantastic time in Maynooth for the recording

@researchireland.bsky.social
@galwayclassics.bsky.social

Here is a video of one of the highlights of yesterday’s CAMPS Lab: Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social is playing medieval bagpipes in a demonstration accompanying Simone Marcenaro’s paper ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’