Classics, University of Galway

Congratulations to Final Year undergraduate student, Conor Greijmans, who was awarded the Dr HH Stewart Literary Prize in Latin at the NUI Awards as a result of his outstanding performance in Beginning Latin 1 and 2. @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social

Poster announcing CAMPS lecture. Text reads: "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the medieval Irish community in the Bechbretha" by Chris Doyle. 21st November 2025, 12pm. Bridge Room, Hardiman Building. Lunch to follow and all welcome. Image displays three hand-drawn beehives surrounded by a swarm of bees. Right side of poster is patterned with an orange honeycomb of hexagons, with three images of bees.

🚨 Announcing our second CAMPS event of the semester!

Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha"

Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon!

🗓️21st Nov
🕒12pm
📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building

Lunch to follow.

At Tionól 2025, Michael Clarke will speak on Togail Troí, Jasmim Drigo on Priscian glosses, and Conor McDonough on early medieval Pauline exegesis. #CelticStudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social

3-year postdoc position in medieval studies 3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...

3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!

Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️

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This afternoon, Dr Jasmim Drigo and Conor McDonough will present papers on Saltair na Rann at the Textual Intersections: Imagining Religion / Religious Imagining symposium held in DCU. For more information, see tinyurl.com/mrxd5fv4 @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

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

On Saturday, September 27, Jacopo Bisagni will give a live demonstration and public talk on weapons and combat in the Late Middle Ages. Tickets available through eventbrite: tinyurl.com/mtex6mk9 @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

So, anyway, here's to BretPal, and here's to (hopefully) BretPal 2.0, in which I hope to explore further scribal connections between Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland. If someone would like to fund me, that would be great.
(New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115)

I am incredibly grateful to the Marie Curie for funding BretPal and to the Classics Department at Galway (@galwayclassics.bsky.social) for being my home these past two years.
(formerly Oslo, Schøyen 2036)

In honour of today's final BretPal workshop, please enjoy the palaeographical nightmare/dream that is Angers 477

And now to end the BretPal workshop, we have @helenthev.bsky.social presenting on CCCC 221 and Gonville and Caius MS 144/194 with this excellent slide of the three scribes’ g letterforms

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!

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

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

Recent @galwayclassics.bsky.social PhD alumna Francesca Guido presented her work in the ERC project GlossIT as part of the team of @bernhardbaver.bsky.social
(6/7)

@jasmimdrigo.bsky.social, also a current @researchireland.ie GOI Postdoctoral Fellow @galwayclassics.bsky.social, like Christian working with @padraicmoran.bsky.social, spoke on Latin Borrowings into Old Irish: Religious and Grammatical Terms
(5/7)

Absolutely delighted that my article on the textual transmission of Aldhelm's Carmen de virginitate is now out in the most recent volume of Mittellateinische Jahrbuch!

Michael Clarke & Peter Kelly have a new article in the American Journal of Philology on the meaning of the adjective λειριόεις ('lilied'), which is first attested in the Iliad and Hesiod's Theogony. @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

It was an absolute honour to give the inaugural Roberta Frank Keynote Lecture at the 22nd Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf.

@campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

“A bane to the Iapygians” | 21 | Greek-indigenous relations in southea Both Diodorus Siculus (8.21) and Strabo (6.3.2) preserve an account of the Tarentine foundation Oracle in which it is foretold where the city would be

Edward Herring has a new article on Greek-indigenous relations in southeast Italy, spanning from the foundation of Tarentum to the Roman conquest in 272 BC. The article appears in the newly released collection 'The World of the Western Greeks' (ed. Kathryn Lomas,
@routledgehistory.bsky.social)

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

Secondly, in Session 1020, we have myself elucidating one manuscript of the ‘Irish Reference Bible’ in “‘Today, you will be with me in paradise’: Notes on Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 447 (376) and the Textual Transmission of ‘Pauca problesmata’”. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Finally, in wrapping Session 1320, we have Adrian Doyle (@andubhghailleach.bsky.social / @GalwayClassics.bsky.social) talking on the concept of ‘Using Data Science to Explore the Relationships between Glossed Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

Secondly, in Session 1320, we have my colleague Chiara Corongiu (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) delivering ‘A Survey of Glossing in Early Medieval Irish Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

First, in Session 1320 (Programme page 321), we have my colleague Pádraic Moran (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) elucidating ‘The Origins and Uses of Three Greek-Latin Bilingual Biblical Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025

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Congratulations to Dr Ciaran Arthur, who has been awarded funding from @researchireland.ie's Pathway Programme to re-examine interpretations of obscure texts in British and Irish communities during the medieval period. For more on his project, Connect 4, see www.universityofgalway.ie/classics/res...