CAMPS Galway
@campsgalway.bsky.social
Centre for Antique, Medieval, and Pre-Modern Studies, University of Galway.
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
https://www.universityofgalway.ie/camps/
🚨 Announcing our second CAMPS event of the semester!
Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha"
Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon!
🗓️21st Nov
🕒12pm
📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building
Lunch to follow.
Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha"
Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon!
🗓️21st Nov
🕒12pm
📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building
Lunch to follow.
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🚨 Announcing our second CAMPS event of the semester!
Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha"
Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon!
🗓️21st Nov
🕒12pm
📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building
Lunch to follow.
Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha"
Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon!
🗓️21st Nov
🕒12pm
📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building
Lunch to follow.
🔔🔔 Our first CAMPS event of the semester!
Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."
Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize.
🗓️ 12th Nov
🕐 1pm
Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."
Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize.
🗓️ 12th Nov
🕐 1pm
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🔔🔔 Our first CAMPS event of the semester!
Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."
Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize.
🗓️ 12th Nov
🕐 1pm
Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."
Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize.
🗓️ 12th Nov
🕐 1pm
The final plenary on The Last Voices of a Pre-Modern Tradition was given by Galway Celtic Studies alumnus Diarmuid Johnson, now a successful writer and musician.
(7/7)
(7/7)
August 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The final plenary on The Last Voices of a Pre-Modern Tradition was given by Galway Celtic Studies alumnus Diarmuid Johnson, now a successful writer and musician.
(7/7)
(7/7)
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
(6/7)
(6/7)
August 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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
(6/7)
(6/7)
@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
(5/7)
(5/7)
August 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@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
(5/7)
(5/7)
Mark David L. Gibbard, who holds an MA in Old and Middle Irish from Galway and now pursues a PhD at the CMS Toronto, talked about Euhemerism and History in Medieval Irish Classicsl Adaptations (4/7)
August 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Mark David L. Gibbard, who holds an MA in Old and Middle Irish from Galway and now pursues a PhD at the CMS Toronto, talked about Euhemerism and History in Medieval Irish Classicsl Adaptations (4/7)
Alumna, former CAMPS PG Representative and Communications Officer Ciaran McDonough
@metamedievalist.bsky.social, now @clic-erc.bsky.social, gave a paper on Classical Allusions in the Poetry of Antoine Ó Raifteraí
(3/7)
@metamedievalist.bsky.social, now @clic-erc.bsky.social, gave a paper on Classical Allusions in the Poetry of Antoine Ó Raifteraí
(3/7)
August 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Alumna, former CAMPS PG Representative and Communications Officer Ciaran McDonough
@metamedievalist.bsky.social, now @clic-erc.bsky.social, gave a paper on Classical Allusions in the Poetry of Antoine Ó Raifteraí
(3/7)
@metamedievalist.bsky.social, now @clic-erc.bsky.social, gave a paper on Classical Allusions in the Poetry of Antoine Ó Raifteraí
(3/7)
It was a special treat to launch the English translation of Chiara Mattozzi’s book “The Raven and The Rose - The Witch”
May 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It was a special treat to launch the English translation of Chiara Mattozzi’s book “The Raven and The Rose - The Witch”
We are very proud of our MA in Medieval and Antiquity students, who presented their fascinating research projects at our symposium
May 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We are very proud of our MA in Medieval and Antiquity students, who presented their fascinating research projects at our symposium
The piece is the "Quinte estampie real" from the Chansonnier du Roi (Paris, BnF, Fr. 844) played on a set of medieval bagpipes made by Gabriel Desbiolles. The use of the feet to beat the rhythm is based on a technique practiced to this day by traditional pipers in central France.
March 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The piece is the "Quinte estampie real" from the Chansonnier du Roi (Paris, BnF, Fr. 844) played on a set of medieval bagpipes made by Gabriel Desbiolles. The use of the feet to beat the rhythm is based on a technique practiced to this day by traditional pipers in central France.
Here is a video of one of the highlights of yesterday’s CAMPS Lab: Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social is playing medieval bagpipes in a demonstration accompanying Simone Marcenaro’s paper ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’
March 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Here is a video of one of the highlights of yesterday’s CAMPS Lab: Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social is playing medieval bagpipes in a demonstration accompanying Simone Marcenaro’s paper ‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’
You are most welcome to our next lab:
Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise)
‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’,
with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social on medieval recorders and bagpipes!
Friday, 7 March
12pm
THB G010
Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise)
‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’,
with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social on medieval recorders and bagpipes!
Friday, 7 March
12pm
THB G010
March 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
You are most welcome to our next lab:
Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise)
‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’,
with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social on medieval recorders and bagpipes!
Friday, 7 March
12pm
THB G010
Prof Simone Marcenaro (University of Molise)
‘Poetry in Music: Medieval Troubadour Songs, From Manuscripts to Performance’,
with live performances by Jacopo Bisagni @galwayclassics.bsky.social on medieval recorders and bagpipes!
Friday, 7 March
12pm
THB G010
We are pleased to announce our upcoming CAMPS Lab:
Anthony Candon
Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages
Friday 28 February
12 noon
THB G011
@uniofgalway.bsky.social
@historyatgalway.bsky.social
@galwayclassics.bsky.social
Anthony Candon
Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages
Friday 28 February
12 noon
THB G011
@uniofgalway.bsky.social
@historyatgalway.bsky.social
@galwayclassics.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We are pleased to announce our upcoming CAMPS Lab:
Anthony Candon
Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages
Friday 28 February
12 noon
THB G011
@uniofgalway.bsky.social
@historyatgalway.bsky.social
@galwayclassics.bsky.social
Anthony Candon
Women in the Irish Annals in the Early Middle Ages
Friday 28 February
12 noon
THB G011
@uniofgalway.bsky.social
@historyatgalway.bsky.social
@galwayclassics.bsky.social
We are looking forward to a great lineup of speakers for our CAMPS labs this term:
January 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We are looking forward to a great lineup of speakers for our CAMPS labs this term:
We are happy to announce the first CAMPS lab of the new year:
Millie Randall @millie-ran.bsky.social
@stemma.bsky.social
Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies
Friday 31 January
12 noon
THB G010
Millie Randall @millie-ran.bsky.social
@stemma.bsky.social
Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies
Friday 31 January
12 noon
THB G010
January 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We are happy to announce the first CAMPS lab of the new year:
Millie Randall @millie-ran.bsky.social
@stemma.bsky.social
Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies
Friday 31 January
12 noon
THB G010
Millie Randall @millie-ran.bsky.social
@stemma.bsky.social
Flirting and Predicting the Future in Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies
Friday 31 January
12 noon
THB G010
Themes were as diverse as heraldry, architecture, anachronism, representation and identity, and intertextuality.
January 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Themes were as diverse as heraldry, architecture, anachronism, representation and identity, and intertextuality.
Ethan Toner, Kiera Fitzsimmons, and Chiara Mazzotti were among those presenting on sources as diverse as BBC's Merlin and Disney films.
January 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Ethan Toner, Kiera Fitzsimmons, and Chiara Mazzotti were among those presenting on sources as diverse as BBC's Merlin and Disney films.
Today, students on the MA in Medieval and Antiquity presented in class on representations of the periods that drew them towards their field of study.
January 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today, students on the MA in Medieval and Antiquity presented in class on representations of the periods that drew them towards their field of study.
We are inviting you to a CAMPS Lab:
This Friday, 29/11, at 12 noon
THB G0.10 (in person only), followed by free lunch.
Brian Walsh (County Museum, Dundalk)
"Emphasising the story in history - the work of the curator".
This is in addition to tomorrow's special collaboration with the History Seminar.
This Friday, 29/11, at 12 noon
THB G0.10 (in person only), followed by free lunch.
Brian Walsh (County Museum, Dundalk)
"Emphasising the story in history - the work of the curator".
This is in addition to tomorrow's special collaboration with the History Seminar.
November 26, 2024 at 3:38 PM
We are inviting you to a CAMPS Lab:
This Friday, 29/11, at 12 noon
THB G0.10 (in person only), followed by free lunch.
Brian Walsh (County Museum, Dundalk)
"Emphasising the story in history - the work of the curator".
This is in addition to tomorrow's special collaboration with the History Seminar.
This Friday, 29/11, at 12 noon
THB G0.10 (in person only), followed by free lunch.
Brian Walsh (County Museum, Dundalk)
"Emphasising the story in history - the work of the curator".
This is in addition to tomorrow's special collaboration with the History Seminar.
Tomorrow at noon!
November 7, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Tomorrow at noon!
In our first CAMPS Lab of the academic year, Michael Clarke will speak on “Echoes of the Theban Legend in a Late Medieval Irish King-Tale”
08/11/24, 12:00 noon
THB G0-10
This talk is also available via ZOOM. Please sign up for the link by filling in this form here:
forms.office.com/e/WCrXXM8wzw
08/11/24, 12:00 noon
THB G0-10
This talk is also available via ZOOM. Please sign up for the link by filling in this form here:
forms.office.com/e/WCrXXM8wzw
October 24, 2024 at 7:36 PM
In our first CAMPS Lab of the academic year, Michael Clarke will speak on “Echoes of the Theban Legend in a Late Medieval Irish King-Tale”
08/11/24, 12:00 noon
THB G0-10
This talk is also available via ZOOM. Please sign up for the link by filling in this form here:
forms.office.com/e/WCrXXM8wzw
08/11/24, 12:00 noon
THB G0-10
This talk is also available via ZOOM. Please sign up for the link by filling in this form here:
forms.office.com/e/WCrXXM8wzw
We are looking forward to the next CAMPS LAB; Frances McCormack will be speaking on
'AI, Art, and Assessment: Constructing in the Old English Classroom'
On 17 May 2024 at 12 noon in the Hardiman Research Building, G0.10. Free lunch as always!
'AI, Art, and Assessment: Constructing in the Old English Classroom'
On 17 May 2024 at 12 noon in the Hardiman Research Building, G0.10. Free lunch as always!
May 8, 2024 at 2:41 PM
We are looking forward to the next CAMPS LAB; Frances McCormack will be speaking on
'AI, Art, and Assessment: Constructing in the Old English Classroom'
On 17 May 2024 at 12 noon in the Hardiman Research Building, G0.10. Free lunch as always!
'AI, Art, and Assessment: Constructing in the Old English Classroom'
On 17 May 2024 at 12 noon in the Hardiman Research Building, G0.10. Free lunch as always!
Our next CAMPS Lab will be
Jessica Cooke (CAMPS, University of Galway)
"Knockma of the Great Kings" - a Forgotten Royal and Ritual landscape in County Galway, Ireland
19 April 2024, 12 noon
THB-G010
Followed by free lunch
Everybody welcome!
Jessica Cooke (CAMPS, University of Galway)
"Knockma of the Great Kings" - a Forgotten Royal and Ritual landscape in County Galway, Ireland
19 April 2024, 12 noon
THB-G010
Followed by free lunch
Everybody welcome!
April 5, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Our next CAMPS Lab will be
Jessica Cooke (CAMPS, University of Galway)
"Knockma of the Great Kings" - a Forgotten Royal and Ritual landscape in County Galway, Ireland
19 April 2024, 12 noon
THB-G010
Followed by free lunch
Everybody welcome!
Jessica Cooke (CAMPS, University of Galway)
"Knockma of the Great Kings" - a Forgotten Royal and Ritual landscape in County Galway, Ireland
19 April 2024, 12 noon
THB-G010
Followed by free lunch
Everybody welcome!
We have a slightly updated CAMPS Labs programme. Next up is Jessica Cooke on 19 April
March 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM
We have a slightly updated CAMPS Labs programme. Next up is Jessica Cooke on 19 April