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Delighted to share that Ancient Classics at the University of Galway is now ranked among the top 51-150 universities worldwide for Classics and Ancient History in the QS World University Rankings 2025! 🎉📜 #Classics #AncientHistory @campsgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social
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🚨 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.
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.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🚨 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.
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
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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
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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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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
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
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
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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
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🔔🔔 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
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
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🔔🔔 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
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
September 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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
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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)
(New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115)
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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)
(New York, Public Library, MS De Ricci 115)
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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)
(formerly Oslo, Schøyen 2036)
September 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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)
(formerly Oslo, Schøyen 2036)
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In honour of today's final BretPal workshop, please enjoy the palaeographical nightmare/dream that is Angers 477
September 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In honour of today's final BretPal workshop, please enjoy the palaeographical nightmare/dream that is Angers 477
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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
September 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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
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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!
September 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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!
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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
September 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
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@cgschweizer.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie fellow at @galwayclassics.bsky.social gave a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil
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August 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
@cgschweizer.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie fellow at @galwayclassics.bsky.social gave a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil
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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
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August 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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)
(6/7)
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@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
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August 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@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)
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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!
July 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
Project MUSE - Muses and Cicadas: The Puzzle of the Lilied-Voice from Homer to Plato
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August 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
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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.
July 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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.
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,
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“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
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July 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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,
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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
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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
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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
July 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
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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
July 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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
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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
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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