Chantal Kobel
@chantalkobel.bsky.social
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
Early Irish language, literature & the Irish manuscript tradition.
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-humanities/our-people/chantal-kobel
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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
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
Binn gotha na dtéad
The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry
www.nli.ie
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...
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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
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
✨ #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
The first Directors of the School of Celtic Studies and the School of Theoretical Physics
#DIASdiscovers #85ThingsaboutDIAS #DIAS85
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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.
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
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.
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.
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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
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.
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
The first year students taking Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social enjoyed a visit to the gorgeous Russell Library this morning @maynoothuniversity.ie 📚📜
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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...
🗓️ Spriocdháta: 19 Samhain 2025
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais: www.ria.ie/about/career...
www.ria.ie
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨 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...
🗓️ Spriocdháta: 19 Samhain 2025
🔗 Tuilleadh eolais: www.ria.ie/about/career...
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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:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
November 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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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
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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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
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
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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
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.
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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...
Registration at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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...
Registration at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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
I went to say goodbye to these beauties today.There's still time this weekend to see the amazing Word on the Wave exhibition.
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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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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
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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Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva received the Postgraduate Research Community Impact Award for his work for the Medieval...
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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
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.
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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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#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!
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!
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
This was a fantastic paper. Fascinating window on Irish scribes' relationships with their texts and with the manuscript as material object.
#MedievalSky #Spéirghorm
👇🏻
#MedievalSky #Spéirghorm
👇🏻
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!
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!
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
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!
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!
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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
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...
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The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for October 2025 is Dublin, TCD MS 1323 (H.3.4), containing materia medica, texts on the medicinal virtues of feverfew and whiskey, marginal notes in ogham and this very cool letter ‘H’:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for October 2025 is Dublin, TCD MS 1323 (H.3.4), containing materia medica, texts on the medicinal virtues of feverfew and whiskey, marginal notes in ogham and this very cool letter ‘H’:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
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Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts, writes Benedetta d’Antuono, PhD researcher at the Department of Early Irish. 💘
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
October 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts, writes Benedetta d’Antuono, PhD researcher at the Department of Early Irish. 💘
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
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Samhain agus Science 2025
Sraith léachtaí poiblí de chuid na hInstitiúide
DIAS public lecture series
#DIASdiscovers
Sraith léachtaí poiblí de chuid na hInstitiúide
DIAS public lecture series
#DIASdiscovers
🌙 Get ready for Samhain agus Science 2025 — Halloween fun with a scientific spark! 🔬
Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌
🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!
#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers
Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌
🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!
#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers
October 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Samhain agus Science 2025
Sraith léachtaí poiblí de chuid na hInstitiúide
DIAS public lecture series
#DIASdiscovers
Sraith léachtaí poiblí de chuid na hInstitiúide
DIAS public lecture series
#DIASdiscovers
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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
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Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
October 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Next Thursday, 16 October, 2-5 p.m. ORB G.27
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
The McCarthy MSI project & The Department of Modern Irish @ucc.ie present:
The Quire and the Medieval manuscript
a seminar on how manuscripts are made
Fáilte roimh chách / All welcome
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Beidh an Léacht Bergin Bhliantúil ar siúl i mbliana ar 5 i.n., 6ú Mí na Samhna, i Léachtlann NTh1, Foirgneamh Newman, UCD. Beidh an Dr Pádraic Moran ag tabhairt léachta dar teideal ‘The Origin and Influence of the St Gall Priscian’. Ba mhór againn tú a bheith i láthair ansin. Fáilte roimh chách!
October 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Beidh an Léacht Bergin Bhliantúil ar siúl i mbliana ar 5 i.n., 6ú Mí na Samhna, i Léachtlann NTh1, Foirgneamh Newman, UCD. Beidh an Dr Pádraic Moran ag tabhairt léachta dar teideal ‘The Origin and Influence of the St Gall Priscian’. Ba mhór againn tú a bheith i láthair ansin. Fáilte roimh chách!
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Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
October 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
#MedievalSky
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Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm
www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm
www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...
The Book of Lecan Conference - Royal Irish Academy
During this two-day event in October 2025, speakers explored the production of the Book of Lecan or Leabhar Mór Lecain, its scribes and patrons, and the texts contained within the manuscript.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Papers from the @ria.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social conference on the Book of Lecan, which took place last week, are now available to listen to on SoundCloud. Enjoy!
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm
www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...
#MedievalSky
#SpéirGhorm
www.ria.ie/audio/the-bo...