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Chantal Kobel
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Lecturer in Irish Cultural Heritage & Early Irish, Maynooth University.
Early Irish language, literature & the Irish manuscript tradition.
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-humanities/our-people/chantal-kobel
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The latest volume of the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie is now available

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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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 😊 🎉👏

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November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Just published in Studia Celtica Fennica is Fangzhe Qiu's (@ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social) review of K. Carella's 'The Ideological Foundations of Early Irish Law and Their Reception in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600 — c. 900'. Available, open access, here: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Review of K. Carella,  The Ideological Foundations of Early Irish Law and Their Reception in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600 — c. 900.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Join us for the @cemslimerick.bsky.social 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills and Book History on 2-3 December in the University of Limerick. Programme and registration here: emslimerick.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/4...
4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2-3 December 2025
Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick 4th Winter School in Archival Research Skills & Book History, 2–3 December 2025 Special Collections & Archives Training Room, Glucksman Library (GL…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Lecture alert @celticuu.bsky.social!
🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December
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Lecture Seán Ó Hoireabhard: Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
Seán Ó Hoireabhard discusses whether the medieval Irish Lebor na Cert ‘The Book of Rights’, with its many flaws, can be regarded as a reliable historical source.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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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!
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac. Written in Irish by Murchadh Riabach Ó Cuindlis, at Cluain Lethan and Lothra (Lorrha) in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary, it is the largest Irish vellum manuscript by one scribe.
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?

3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

#Medieval #Manuscript
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...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
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Binn gotha na dtéad
The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry
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November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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✨ #9 & #10 of 85 Things About DIAS -

The first Directors of the School of Celtic Studies and the School of Theoretical Physics

#DIASdiscovers #85ThingsaboutDIAS #DIAS85
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Job advert:

The Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social advertises a permanent, full time position for research support and consultancy. The successful candidate will support the digital research and technical development of the Institute and of funded research projects.
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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1/4📜 New on ISOS: RIA MS 24 B 1, a Táin Bó Cuailnge manuscript by Peadar Ó Longáin. Digitised with @dias.ie @ria.ie & @unimelb.bsky.social for @anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS 2025. Thanks to Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social for underscoring its importance to Irish scribal tradition and the Táin.
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The first year students taking Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social enjoyed a visit to the gorgeous Russell Library this morning @maynoothuniversity.ie 📚📜
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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🚨 FOLÚNTAS: Post mar Fhoclóirí Cúnta le Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann).
🗓️ Spriocdháta: 19 Samhain 2025
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais: www.ria.ie/about/career...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for November 2025 is Maynooth, @mulibrary.bsky.social MS C110, containing an Irish translation of Arnaldus de Villanova’s Speculum medicinae completed in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork on 15 May 1414:

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November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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In the past two days, the Maynooth Early Irish postgraduate students organised the *Widame Conference for Postgraduate Scholars in Celtic Studies @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social. We had the pleasure to welcome speakers from universities in six countries.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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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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...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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The MS of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow. Written in Irish at Clonmacnoise before AD 1106, it contains the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, the Voyage of Bran, the Feast of Bricriú, and other material from the Irish literary tradition.
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The upcoming postgrad conference *Widame in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie has a very interesting & diverse programme ⬇️. Two of my students, Paul Le Meur-Bouthemy & Olly Dorgan-Hughes will be speaking.

Registration at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I went to say goodbye to these beauties today.There's still time this weekend to see the amazing Word on the Wave exhibition.
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Huge success for Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social today: our PhD students won 4 Graduate Research Academy 2025 Awards of @maynoothuniversity.ie @muresearch.bsky.social.
Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva received the Postgraduate Research Community Impact Award for his work for the Medieval...
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October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 D 17, the Ó Cléirigh Genealogies. The scribe of this mid-17th C genealogical manuscript was Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, one of the compilers of the Annals of the Four Masters.
October 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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This was a fantastic paper. Fascinating window on Irish scribes' relationships with their texts and with the manuscript as material object.

#MedievalSky #Spéirghorm

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I enjoyed presenting my research on Irish legal manuscripts & their scribal notes yesterday in UCD!
The notes are often stylistically quite difficult & omitted from printed catalogues. My favourites are those of the manuscript addressing the text, & in some instances, the text responding in return!
🚨 Tabharfaidh @chantalkobel.bsky.social seimineár in @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social Déardaoin 16 Deireadh Fómhair.

Dr Chantal Kobel will present a seminar in UCD Thursday 16 October.

'"Come hither!": Guiding the medieval reader in Irish legal vellum manuscripts'.📜

Fáilte roimh chách!
October 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I enjoyed presenting my research on Irish legal manuscripts & their scribal notes yesterday in UCD!
The notes are often stylistically quite difficult & omitted from printed catalogues. My favourites are those of the manuscript addressing the text, & in some instances, the text responding in return!
🚨 Tabharfaidh @chantalkobel.bsky.social seimineár in @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social Déardaoin 16 Deireadh Fómhair.

Dr Chantal Kobel will present a seminar in UCD Thursday 16 October.

'"Come hither!": Guiding the medieval reader in Irish legal vellum manuscripts'.📜

Fáilte roimh chách!
October 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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How would be treated for a broken heart, menstrual cramps or infertility in medieval Ireland? Expert @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social takes us through the vast array of medical texts, the 11th c surge in scientific writing & evidence for drs & doctoring in the Middle Ages. open.spotify.com/episode/34oG...
Medieval Medicine with Prof. Deborah Hayden
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October 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM