@siobhbar.bsky.social
Researcher in Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. Irish Mammy. Irish Granny.
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How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland. A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe, writes @maireadfinnegan.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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www.con-telegraph.ie/2025/09/12/o...
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For the September 2025 LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month, the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social looks at Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 P 10 iii, containing a compilation of texts on fevers and many beautiful illuminations. Read more here! 👇📜
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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for August 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 24 P 15, containing Irish versions of Petrus de Argellata’s surgical text and the works of Bernard of Gordon. Read more here! 👇 📜
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screenshot showing a map of ogham locations (more to add) with search filters and an index of ogham inscriptions below
Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham
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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for July 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 N 29. It consists of 23 paper fragments, one of which is a portion of the sole surviving prosimetrical remedy collection in Irish. Read more here! 👇
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The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2025 is London, British Library MS Add. 15582, completed in Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1563 & then brought to Scotland. It contains texts on regimen, cautery & this image of a ‘Phlebotomy Man’:
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Very proud that a chapter I wrote is included in this beautiful book. Thank you @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social and @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social
27.05.2025 10:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hayden, Deborah and Baccianti, Sarah (2025) Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World. Vernacular Texts and Traditions. mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...
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The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for May 2025 is Edinburgh, NLS Adv. MS 72.1.4 (‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’), containing a copy of Psalm 118 followed by medical definitions and aphorisms in Latin with Irish translations:
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Extended deadline: 6 June 2025
PhD studentship
The Lives and Miracles of St Laurence O'Toole
Work on Latin Miracula under Dr Jesse Harrington (DIAS) and Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth).
www.dias.ie/applications...
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www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW428/r...
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
New episode w/Royal Irish Academy Librarian Barbara McCormack about @ria.ie's collection incl. many of Ireland's most precious medieval manuscripts e.g. the Cathach, the Stowe Missal, Leabhar Breac & The Book of the Dun Cow. FREE TO ALL. Check out www.ria.ie/library/
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Advance notice: to be broadcast in 4 instalments from Sun 8 June: "From that Small Island" (programmesales.rte.ie/programme/fr...)
A history of Ireland by Briona Nic Dhiarmada & Jane Ohlmeyer.
Includes cameos by myself as part of my @researchireland.ie research.
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Agnetha Ní Máelshechlainn was a clever political negotiator who defended her monastery from expropriation during the English conquest of Ireland, writes Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva.
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My article 'Tradition and Innovation in the Materiality of Medieval Gaelic Law Manuscripts' is now out in Care & Conservation of Manuscripts 19
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...
This features research conducted while still @scs-dias.bsky.social before joining @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social 🎉
Medical Words/Medical Worlds Workshop list of speakers.
Don't miss the ‘Medical Words/Medical Worlds’ workshop in the University of Cambridge on 5-6 June 2025! 🩻
Speakers will explore medieval medical lexicography and translation in a range of European linguistic traditions. 🌍
More info: buff.ly/r77QWCA
"Designing sustainable Digital Editions", Dr Pádraic Moran, University of Galway. 17.00-18.00, Tuesday 27 May 2025. Iontas seminar room 1.33, Maynooth University. All welcome - no booking required.
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The OG(H)AM project just about made it, on the last day of the month, to publish Katherine Forsyth's Og(h)am of the Month, about a - once - mysterious small object from Moynagh Lough (Meath) with og(h)am on it: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og...
While the object as such is mysterious no more...
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🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Research Assistantship in the Dept of Early Irish @maynoothuniversity.ie, working with the amazing @chantalkobel.bsky.social for the SCRÍBHINN project on medieval Irish legal & medical manuscripts. Deadline 30 May 2025. More details here:
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Digital Epigraphy Workshop coming soon in Dublin (TCD) and Maynooth (MU)! #Photogrammetry #RTI and #EpiDoc hands-on training over 3 days. Booking essential for workshop as limited places (note: keynotes do not require booking). Programme & Eventbrite link: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...
06.05.2025 07:26 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2Comhghairdeachas ó chroí a Deborah
06.05.2025 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tá an ceapachán déanta ag Uachtarán na hÉireann @president.ie arna moladh ag an Aire Ard-Oideachais, Breis-Oideachais agus Oiliúna, Nuálaíochta, Taighde ⁊ Eolaíochta, James Lawless TD. Breis eolais ag: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
06.05.2025 08:46 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Huge congratulations to Prof Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social (Early Irish
@celticstudiesmu.bsky.social)🎆 who has been appointed Chair of the Governing Board of the School of Celtic Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @diasdublin.bsky.social 🎉🎇🍾
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It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece
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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2025, brought to you by the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social, is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G8, a ‘pocket-size medical encyclopaedia’ with a Kildare connection: 📜
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Folúntas - Vacancy
Comhaltacht Uí Aimhirgín - Bergin Fellowship
Comhaltacht 5 bliana í seo do thaighdeoir i dtús a réime
This is a 5-year fellowship for an early-career researcher.
Tuilleadh eolais - Details:
www.dias.ie/bergin-fello...
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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.
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