Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆

Folúntais: Scoláireachtaí Uí Dhonnabháin @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie. Spriocdháta 5 Eanáir 2026

2 O’Donovan Scholarship vacancies at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline 5 January 2026:

www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...

website of ‘Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World’

UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities poster

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Digital Gaelic

Early 2020, Prof Deborah Hayden, Dr Nora White and I were awarded a UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Grant by the AHRC (@ukri.org) and IRC (@researchireland.ie) for ‘Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World’ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/....
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Ceardlann scríbhneoireachta Gaeilge le Dubhán Ó Longáin, 10 Nollaig 2025 11am-1pm, Seomra na Gaeilge, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad

Cláraigh don cheardlann trí ríomhphost a chur chuig dubhanolongain@gmail.com

Beidh ceardlann scríbhneoireachta á cur ar fáil ag ár Scríbhneoir Cónaithe, Dubhán Ó Longáin, i Seomra na Gaeilge amárach, 10 Nollaig 2025, idir 11rn agus 1in.

Déan teagmháil linn le clárú. ✍️

Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad 2025 díreach tagtha ó na clódóirí 👏🏻🍾 comhghairdeas (agus buíochas ó chroí) leis na scríbhneoirí a chuir ábhar ar fáil. Seolfar é Déardaoin 11 Nollaig i seomra 1.33, Iontas, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad i ndiaidh an tseimineáir roinne. Fáilte roimh chách 🙂

Déardaoin na seachtaine seo! Agus seolfar Irisleabhar Mhá Nuad 2025 (@irisleabharmn.bsky.social) i ndiaidh na cainte. Bígí linn!

cover of Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell (eds.), Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular Grammar and Grammarians in Medieval Ireland and Wales [= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 125], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2016.

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Medical learning

Having originally studied the native grammatical tradition of medieval Ireland, Prof Deborah Hayden became intrigued by the overlap of grammar with medical learning in medieval Irish manuscripts. After joining the Department of Early Irish in 2015, Deborah received a @ria.ie…
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A great crowd attending the Early Irish Research Seminar, 4 December 2025 © David Stifter.

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Research seminars and conferences

Dr Elizabeth Boyle established a series of three research seminars every semester in the Department of Early Irish as a forum for scholarly discourse and outreach in 2014. Since then, she and other colleagues have invited 66 scholars to speak in this series.
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Dr Sparky Booker of Trinity College Dublin giving her lecture on fifteenth-century petitions to the Irish parliament. Her PowerPoint slide visible on the screen to her right (left of photo) shows a map of Ireland and images pertaining to the Irish parliament in the later Middle Ages.

Last night in Maynooth, Dr Sparky Booker @tcddublin.bsky.social gave the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture on "Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament". An absolutely fascinating lecture, shedding light on late medieval Irish social history. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

A neglected glossary in a sixteenth-century Irish legal miscellany This article presents a study, edition and translation of an overlooked minor medieval Irish glossary. The Tindrum glossary’s brevity and obscure location in a sixteenth-century legal miscellany likel...

Two new articles in Studia Celtica Fennica! In her philological study of a minor late medieval Irish glossary @chantalkobel.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social presents the first edition and translation of the Tindrum glossary in TCD MS H 3.18 (1337). Available here: journal.fi/scf/article/...

Ag súil go mór leis an ócáid seo! The biggest Acallam na Senórach conference ever 🤩

*Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker - 4 December 2025 2.31 Iontas Maynooth University

Bígí linn | Join us for the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture, the final Early Irish research seminar this year, Thursday 4 December at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.

*Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament*
Dr Sparky Booker (Trinity College Dublin)

Fáilte roimh chách!

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G50, beginning of Blathmac’s Poems, p. 122. © Irish Script on Screen.

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Blathmac’s Poems

In 2013, Siobhán Barrett started on a PhD, supported by a @maynoothuniversity.ie Hume Scholarship and then by an IRC GOI Scholarship (@researchireland.ie), with the aim of creating a lexical database of the Poems of Blathmac. This soon turned into something much bigger.
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Daniel Watson, Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierarchy and Inspiration, PhD thesis, Maynooth 2018.

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PhDs

Elizabeth Boyle’s research has attracted many talented postgraduate students to do their PhDs in Maynooth. Daniel Watson (Canada) wrote an extensive study of “Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland”. Daniel was a Hume Scholar at @maynoothuniversity.ie; after graduating in 2019, his PhD…
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*Atlas nua do na canúintí pan-Ghaelacha sa ré dhigiteach: aidhmeanna, cur chuige agus dul chun cinn* Art Hughes - Déardaoin 11 Nollaig 2025 1.33 Iontas Ollscoil Mhá Nuad

Bígí linn le haghaidh an chéad seimineár taighde eile de chuid Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, 17:00 Déardaoin 11 Nollaig 2025 i Seomra 1.33 IONTAS.

*Atlas nua do na canúintí pan-Ghaelacha sa ré dhigiteach: aidhmeanna, cur chuige agus dul chun cinn*
Art Hughes (Ollscoil Uladh)

Fáilte roimh chách!

📣Déardaoin na seachtaine seo | This Thursday.

Sliocht as Auraicept na nÉces

Eagrán Anders Ahlqvist de Auraicept na nÉces. Gael is ea an duine a labhraíonn Gaeilge, beag beann ar a shinsir.

Tá sé thar a bheith spéisiúil go bhfuil daoine ag teacht ó ar fud na cruinne chun staidéar a dhéanamh ar stair, teanga agus cultúr na hÉireann.

Tá go leor le foghlaim againn uathu!

Day 2 of @davidstifter.bsky.social's advent calendar is ... me! 🧵👇🏻

Elizabeth Boyle et al, “Decolonizing Medieval Irish Studies”, Irish Journal of Sociology 32 (2024), 66–78.

Lizzie’s academic work has always been strongly informed by her social engagement in support of lesser-represented groups in academia and by the question of the colonial heritage of Celtic Studies and the decolonialisation of the discipline.
🌐: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts...
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© Royal Irish Academy, Irish Script on Screen, RIA MS 23 N 10, p. 90, a Middle Irish poem on idolatry.

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Church history and Christian learning

In 2013, Dr Elizabeth Boyle joined the Department of Early Irish. One of her chief interests is the religious, cultural and literary history of early medieval Ireland (7ᵗʰ–12ᵗʰ centuries), that is the homilies, law, theological and philosophical texts,…
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The 3rd Stowe Missal Charm © David Stifter 2012, image © Royal Irish Academy and Irish Script on Screen

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Medieval Irish charms

When asked for an inaugural lecture as Professor of Old and Middle Irish at @maynoothuniversity.ie (2012), I was desperately looking for a suitable topic. But after some deliberation, I chose one that I had already worked on before, namely Old Irish healing charms.
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Research in Early Irish Maynooth (c) Dept. of Early Irish

This research poster from 2023 offers a flavour of the research that has been done over the past decade.
At the outset, a huge celebratory shout-out is apt to everyone who, over the years, has made our work possible by their generous support: @maynoothuniversity.ie, the Maynooth Faculty...
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https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/early-irish-sean-ghaeilge

...Calendar, now in its 9ᵗʰ year, will start tomorrow, on the first Sunday of Advent, 30 November. There will be 25 windows to open.
The theme of this year’s Calendar is Medieval Irish Studies at the Maynooth University Department of Early Irish (@ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie).
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Muslin Bag Calendar, (c) Alice and Lois 2022

🎁 Gaimchorgus 2025 🌟

The darkness outside leaves no doubt: the time has come again to brighten up the end-of-year despair by the annual 𝐹é𝓁𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓈 𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓂𝓇𝒾𝒹 𝒾𝓈𝒾𝓃𝓉 Ṡ𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑜í𝒹𝒾𝓁𝒸 ‘Old Irish Advent Calendar’, on Bluesky (and, out of a nostalgic habit, still on Twitter). As is proper, the Advent...
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*Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker - 4 December 2025 2.31 Iontas Maynooth University

Bígí linn | Join us for the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture, the final Early Irish research seminar this year, Thursday 4 December at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.

*Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament*
Dr Sparky Booker (Trinity College Dublin)

Fáilte roimh chách!

*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments* Dr Riona Doolan - 17:00 Thursday 27 November 2025, 2.31 Iontas Maynooth University

Bígí linn | Join us for the next Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar. Thursday 27 November at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.

*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments*
Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University)

Fáilte roimh chách!

Lovely to see this piece about Benedetta D’Antuono @ceilteachomn.bsky.social, who received the Postgraduate Research Excellence Award for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities @maynoothuniversity.ie this year! It's such a joy to supervise her work 😊 🎉👏

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-res...

Déardaoin na seachtaine seo. Bígí ann! 🤰🤰🤰

This Thursday. All welcome! 🤰🤰🤰

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One more week to go
until the 1ˢᵗ Sunday of Advent,
the time for my annual
𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

A calendar devoted to
reflection and navel-gazing,
and to the fantastic research
of my colleagues in Early Irish Maynooth @ceilteachomn.bsky.social.
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📷: St Patrick's College Maynooth

*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments* Dr Riona Doolan - 17:00 Thursday 27 November 2025, 2.31 Iontas Maynooth University

Bígí linn | Join us for the next Early Irish & Celtic Studies research seminar. Thursday 27 November at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS.

*Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments*
Dr Riona Doolan (Maynooth University)

Fáilte roimh chách!