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Deborah Hayden
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Professor of Celtic Studies & Head of the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. History of medicine & linguistics; early Irish literature; manuscripts; #Gaeilge
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-humanities/our-people/deborah-hayden
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Such a joy to see this out in the world at last - and now available fully #OpenAccess from @brepols.net!

Huge thanks to my co-editor @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, all our contributors, & @researchireland.ie for making this project possible against all odds 🎉🥂

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A lovely job opportunity for an ECR, a temporary lecturing position but it has built in research time too. Come work with us in Maynooth for a year! #medievalsky You can email/message me if you've any questions & I can point you in the right direction.
🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!

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February 7, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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📯 Job claxon: Assistant Professor in Celtic, University of Cambridge (ending soon)

@department-asnc.bsky.social wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 Sept 2026. Details for the post can be found at www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista....

Closing date for applications: Wed 11 Feb 2026.
Assistant Professor in Celtic
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, within the Faculty of English wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Celtic from 1 September 2026. We seek applicants who have research and
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February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Celtica XXXVII foilsithe / published!

Seolfar Celtica XXXVII (2025) ar 19 Feabhra in DIAS
Beidh an iris ar fáil ar líne as sin amach.

Celtica XXXVII (2025) will be launched on 19 February at DIAS
It will be available online from that date.
www.dias.ie/celt/
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Tar ag obair linn! Come work with us!

#JobsFairy #SíógnabPost
🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!

my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
February 6, 2026 at 11:32 AM
🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!

my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
February 6, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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✨#24 of #85 Things About DIAS

The ADH was the brainchild of Harvard Observatory Director, Harlow Shapley who fortuitously met Taoiseach Eamon de Valera at Shannon Airport in 1948. Shapley introduced himself and discussed ideas for the reopening of Dunsink and the ADH joint telescope project.
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Acallam talk alert! 🔔 Register at celtic@uni-bonn.de to get the link to Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's talk, next Monday 9th February at 18:00 CET.
@ninacnock.bsky.social will discuss some of the Disappearing Text project's work so far, and the (many) different versions of Acallam na Senórach..!
🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET.
💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social
To get the link, please contact celtic@uni-bonn.de 🔗
February 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Harvard's Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures seeks applications for a lecturer (to begin 1 July 2026). 3-year position. Field of Celtic Languages and Literatures broadly conceived (e.g. language, literature, history, manuscript studies, etc.).
🚨 Application deadline: 28 February 2026.
January 22, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Another year, another series of Irish medical manuscripts! The LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month for January 2026 is Dublin, TCD 1357 (H.4.16), written in Co. Mayo in 1563 and containing several texts on uroscopy:

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January 20, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done!
#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge

Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture

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January 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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Comhaltachtaí PhD á lorg ag Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge

🗓️ Spriocdháta: Aibr 3
📬 Teangmháil: gearoidin.uilaighleis@dcu.ie | padraig.oliathain@dcu.ie

Taighde: Cúrsaí teanga & aistriúcháin, bainistíocht & fiontraíocht, daonnachtaí digiteacha & teangeolaíocht chorpais, litríocht chomhaimseartha & eile!
January 18, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Research Ireland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have launched a new research programme that will deliver transformational impact on creative economy research between the UK and Ireland. Deadline to apply is 24th March 2026. For more visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/crea...
January 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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The annual Leyerle-CARA Prize supports the doctoral research of a Medieval Academy member who needs to consult materials available at the University of Toronto collections and libraries.
Deadline: January 31
www.medievalacademy.org/page/Leyerle...
www.medievalacademy.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Studia Celtica 2025 has arrived! - a substantial issue, produced jointly by the Ganolfan and @uniwalespress.bsky.social @collen105.bsky.social. Further information is given here: www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Tá forbairt á déanamh againn ar Gharraí na Gaeilge chun cultúr Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, idir sean agus nua, a chur in iúl.

Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge.

Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Ringing in 2026 with another lovely snowfall. Athbhliain faoi shéan agus faoi mhaise daoibh! ❄️🥳
January 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Christmas Eve on the island ☺️ Nollaig shona daoibh go léir! 🎄⭐️
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Rétglu etir rind

We, the staff of Maynooth’s Department of Early Irish, want to bring the relevance of medieval Ireland and its culture closer to audiences in Ireland (and beyond) by disseminating our work beyond academia, for example through appearances in TV documentaries and radio shows.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Irish manuscript culture

Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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OPal+

As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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December 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk

It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Cisalpine Celtic literacy

Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/).
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December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh
2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies
Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026
Deadline: 5 January 2026
www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...
@dias.ie
December 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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DiⒶgnostic

On 31 August 2023, the very last day of my sabbatical year 2022/3, I was informed by the IRC (@researchireland.ie) of the award of an Advanced Laureate Award for ‘DiⒶgnostic – Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish’. This four-year project started in December 2023.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM