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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Apr 2

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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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · 22d

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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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 23d

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)

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · 23d

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)

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · Sep 5

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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Christian Schweizer @cgschweizer.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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Christian Schweizer @cgschweizer.bsky.social · Sep 3

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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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · Aug 31

@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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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · Aug 31

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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CAMPS Galway @campsgalway.bsky.social · Aug 31

@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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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · Jul 29

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!

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Aug 18

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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Colleen Curran @ccurran.bsky.social · Jul 18

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.

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Jul 18

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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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · Jul 9

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

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Darcy Ireland @darcyireland.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Classics, University of Galway @galwayclassics.bsky.social · Jun 25

Jacopo Bisagni's new article on the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan) has just been published in JML. This narrative is found in De cursu solis in nocte, a text which Jacopo discovered in the ninth-century manuscript Laon MS 422.

Where is the Sun at Night? New Evidence from Laon, Médiathèque Suzanne Martinet, MS 422: The Journal of Medieval Latin: Vol 35

The article explores early medieval cosmological narratives concerning the Sun’s night journey and its cosmic battle with a tide-making sea monster (sometimes called Leviathan), focussing on a text di...

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Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations to Francesca Guido and Paula Harrison, who were conferred with their PhDs in Classics yesterday.

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