Vox Hiberionacum
@voxhib.bsky.social
Archaeology, History, Hagiography, Folklore & Landscapes of Early Irish Christianity & Early Medieval Ireland. Includes thinly veiled but good-natured irreverence, outrageous puns and irregular posts.
Random thought on Dublin Pro-Cathedral/Cathedral in the news (Its far too modern for my interest)... I remember, c. 2013, an awful dose of a Irish Catholic Twitter Account tweeting on the two COI Dublin Cathredrals and saying "You wouldnt get Catholics building two cathedrals that close in a city...
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Random thought on Dublin Pro-Cathedral/Cathedral in the news (Its far too modern for my interest)... I remember, c. 2013, an awful dose of a Irish Catholic Twitter Account tweeting on the two COI Dublin Cathredrals and saying "You wouldnt get Catholics building two cathedrals that close in a city...
Arrived up this evening to Pops Hiberionacum and he hadn't gone shopping so not much for the dinner, so am making do in the ancient ways of my people...
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Arrived up this evening to Pops Hiberionacum and he hadn't gone shopping so not much for the dinner, so am making do in the ancient ways of my people...
The fucking druid cat that I didnt own and who didn't live with me for a few years and who then fecked off to another house but still comes back sometimes has just turned up, eaten half a burger, drank 2 bowls of milk, nuzzled me for a few minutes, before heading upstairs for a kip. Gaslit. By a cat
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The fucking druid cat that I didnt own and who didn't live with me for a few years and who then fecked off to another house but still comes back sometimes has just turned up, eaten half a burger, drank 2 bowls of milk, nuzzled me for a few minutes, before heading upstairs for a kip. Gaslit. By a cat
All of ye banded together and paid for this just to get me twitching. Didn't you. Ye fuckos.
October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
All of ye banded together and paid for this just to get me twitching. Didn't you. Ye fuckos.
"The Northumbrian monks are known to have mentored the Picts".
If only we knew who mentored the Northumbrians...
If only we knew who mentored the Northumbrians...
September 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
"The Northumbrian monks are known to have mentored the Picts".
If only we knew who mentored the Northumbrians...
If only we knew who mentored the Northumbrians...
Gentle reminder that in and around 500AD, the Britons were the Welsh, the Welsh were British, the Irish were the Scots, and the Scots were the Irish. The Picts were the Picts, but they weren't that picky.
This is interesting - a thorough Wikipedia explanation of the terminology used to denote “these islands”…
I tend to use “Britain and Ireland”, but accept thats problematical (eg the Isle of Man issue”)
Never in a month of Sundays would I say “the British Isles”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termino...
I tend to use “Britain and Ireland”, but accept thats problematical (eg the Isle of Man issue”)
Never in a month of Sundays would I say “the British Isles”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termino...
Terminology of the British Isles - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Gentle reminder that in and around 500AD, the Britons were the Welsh, the Welsh were British, the Irish were the Scots, and the Scots were the Irish. The Picts were the Picts, but they weren't that picky.
Dál Riada is more Donegal. I blame Colmcille.
There are lots of patches of Ireland that are nominally County/Province A but their vibes are profoundly County/Province B.
Arklow is far more Wexfordy than Wicklowish.
Louth feels more Ulster than Leinster.
And there are certain parts of Westmeath that are to the east of certain parts of Meath.
Arklow is far more Wexfordy than Wicklowish.
Louth feels more Ulster than Leinster.
And there are certain parts of Westmeath that are to the east of certain parts of Meath.
Where I live is definitely in Kilkenny but spiritually it’s part of Laois
September 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Dál Riada is more Donegal. I blame Colmcille.
Ah jaysis, tis yourself....
July 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Ah jaysis, tis yourself....
Of course, it's not widely known that flying ant day was originally a pagan colony...
July 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Of course, it's not widely known that flying ant day was originally a pagan colony...
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The much anticipated, incredible, 'Words on the Wave' exhibition opens in @nmireland.bsky.social today! FREE TO ALL. Can't make it? Listen to Matt Seaver & Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain on what makes it so special & about Irish connections w/Switzerland going back 1,400 years. open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
May 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The much anticipated, incredible, 'Words on the Wave' exhibition opens in @nmireland.bsky.social today! FREE TO ALL. Can't make it? Listen to Matt Seaver & Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain on what makes it so special & about Irish connections w/Switzerland going back 1,400 years. open.spotify.com/episode/3o3x...
Very sorry to hear this. Never met him, but he single handedly invented modern day geo/ textual criticism identification of Tírechán sites by correctly identifying Tobar Finnmhuighe. In 1967. It was the 1990s before anyone else did.
So sorry to hear of the death of the wonderful, groundbreaking historian Kenneth Nicholls. He was so unbelievably generous to me. We have lost not just a lovely man but someone with an irreplaceable knowledge of mediaeval & #earlyModern #Ireland. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
May 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Very sorry to hear this. Never met him, but he single handedly invented modern day geo/ textual criticism identification of Tírechán sites by correctly identifying Tobar Finnmhuighe. In 1967. It was the 1990s before anyone else did.
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Armageddon. There’s probably a line about this in an apocryphal Revelation that no one reads anymore as a woman wrote it.
“And the magpies will rattle the earth”
“And the magpies will rattle the earth”
May 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Armageddon. There’s probably a line about this in an apocryphal Revelation that no one reads anymore as a woman wrote it.
“And the magpies will rattle the earth”
“And the magpies will rattle the earth”
3rd c No Celts
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19th c. Celtic revival
20th c. Enya
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19th c. Celtic revival
20th c. Enya
May 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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18th c Celts invented
19th c. Celtic revival
20th c. Enya
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19th c. Celtic revival
20th c. Enya
Paul Durcan RIP.
No longer are you to be named Forsaken,
nor your land Abandoned,
but you shall be called My Delight
and your land The Wedded.
No longer are you to be named Forsaken,
nor your land Abandoned,
but you shall be called My Delight
and your land The Wedded.
May 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Paul Durcan RIP.
No longer are you to be named Forsaken,
nor your land Abandoned,
but you shall be called My Delight
and your land The Wedded.
No longer are you to be named Forsaken,
nor your land Abandoned,
but you shall be called My Delight
and your land The Wedded.
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April 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Discount Codes for Island Endurance - get 30% off
For US shipping: Order from Indiana University Press with code ULASH25
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For Ireland, UK, and Europe: Order from Combined Academic Publishers with code IUP30
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For US shipping: Order from Indiana University Press with code ULASH25
iupress.org/978025307248...
For Ireland, UK, and Europe: Order from Combined Academic Publishers with code IUP30
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Cork Luas?
More like South Mall.
More like South Mall.
April 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Cork Luas?
More like South Mall.
More like South Mall.
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This week on the podcast we thank Dr Janel Fontaine for sharing her research on slavery in the Middle Ages. From the accounts of Patrick in the 5th century to Gerald of Wales in the 12th she explains how slavery was built into the fabric of medieval Irish society. open.spotify.com/episode/048Y...
Slavery in Medieval Ireland with Dr Janel Fontaine
The Medieval Irish History Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This week on the podcast we thank Dr Janel Fontaine for sharing her research on slavery in the Middle Ages. From the accounts of Patrick in the 5th century to Gerald of Wales in the 12th she explains how slavery was built into the fabric of medieval Irish society. open.spotify.com/episode/048Y...
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Some thoughts on St Patrick & his writings for the day that’s in it - products of pragmatism
& trauma www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
& trauma www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Slavery, wealth and trauma: the controversial life of St Patrick
If the Patrick of legend is implacable and authoritative, the historical Patrick was a fascinatingly flawed man who was mired in conflict
www.rte.ie
March 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Some thoughts on St Patrick & his writings for the day that’s in it - products of pragmatism
& trauma www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
& trauma www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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So pleased that my article on Irish saints & their places has appeared in Peritia: I don't have a free-to-read link but am happy to share my pdf via email; this is the result of an accidental project that began with tweeting Irish saints on their feastdays, back in the days when Twitter was fun
March 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
So pleased that my article on Irish saints & their places has appeared in Peritia: I don't have a free-to-read link but am happy to share my pdf via email; this is the result of an accidental project that began with tweeting Irish saints on their feastdays, back in the days when Twitter was fun
This is absolutely fantastic.
Sharing my article on Erskine Nicol’s fascinating painting of a St Patrick’s Day celebration in nineteenth-century Ireland, & why Irish Catholic devotion was depicted in a certain way! Painting in the National Gallery of Ireland. #SpeirGorm #OpenAccess #StPatricksDay academic.oup.com/jvc/article/...
Erskine Nicol and the representation of national and religious identities in nineteenth-century Ireland
Abstract. This article investigates the visual representation of Irish Catholicism in mid-nineteenth century genre painting through a close analysis of St
academic.oup.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This is absolutely fantastic.
