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On January 16th, Professor Michael Clarke will present on 'The History of the Irish Book: The Handwritten Book in Ireland' at an Éigse Cholm Cille event on Columban Landscapes and Irish Manuscripts #celticstudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Everyone is welcome to attend the Inaugural Lecture by An tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil, Personal Professor in Modern Irish this Thursday, Oct. 23 @ 5 pm in the O'Donoghue Theatre.

What is the role of poetry in times of war or in the face of systemic violence? This lecture will be in Irish.
October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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...
June 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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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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June 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Congratulations to Professor Anne O'Connor who has been newly elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA).
Anne O’Connor is Established Professor in the University of Galway School of Languages Literatures and Cultures.
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
May 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Huge congrats to our three professors elected as members The Royal Irish Academy for their exceptional contribution to sciences, humanities and social sciences. 🏅

The University of Galway new members of the RIA are:
Kieran Conboy, Anne O'Connor and Abhay Pandit.
May 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We are proud to continue to be ranked in the 2025 QS World University Rankings for Modern Languages (251-300)!
May 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM