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

Looking forward to a fantastic range of talks at the upcoming Classics Research Symposium! @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

Congratulations to Final Year undergraduate student, Conor Greijmans, who was awarded the Dr HH Stewart Literary Prize in Latin at the NUI Awards as a result of his outstanding performance in Beginning Latin 1 and 2. @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social

At Tionól 2025, Michael Clarke will speak on Togail Troí, Jasmim Drigo on Priscian glosses, and Conor McDonough on early medieval Pauline exegesis. #CelticStudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social

This afternoon, Dr Jasmim Drigo and Conor McDonough will present papers on Saltair na Rann at the Textual Intersections: Imagining Religion / Religious Imagining symposium held in DCU. For more information, see tinyurl.com/mrxd5fv4 @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

On Saturday, September 27, Jacopo Bisagni will give a live demonstration and public talk on weapons and combat in the Late Middle Ages. Tickets available through eventbrite: tinyurl.com/mtex6mk9 @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social

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...

Congratulations to Dr Francesca Guido and Dr Paula Harrison on their PhD conferrals yesterday! Dr Guido worked on embedded texts in Charisius’ Latin grammar and Dr Harrison focused on De diuisionibus temporum in Laon MS 422.

Congratulations to Jacopo Bisagni and Paula Harrison on the release of their new monograph on Laon, B.M., MS 422 written in collaboration with Isabelle Draelants @cnrs.fr. This comprehensive study focusses on the scientific, cosmological, and computational content of this manuscript from ca 815.

Jacopo Bisagni recently presented his research on the earliest known Western fencing manual at the 'En Garde: La scherma nella storia' event in the Museo Civico Etnografico, La Spezia 🇮🇹.🗡️📜 #HistoricalFencing #ManuscriptStudies #MedievalSky

Tomorrow in La Spezia 🇮🇹: Jacopo Bisagni will speak at a Fencing in History event in the Museo Civico Etnografico.
His talk explores violence and its rules in the Middle Ages with a focus on the earliest Western fencing manual! ⚔️ #MedievalStudies #MedievalSky #FencingHistory @campsgalway.bsky.social

Delighted to share that Ancient Classics at the University of Galway is now ranked among the top 51-150 universities worldwide for Classics and Ancient History in the QS World University Rankings 2025! 🎉📜 #Classics #AncientHistory @campsgalway.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Upcoming lecture on medieval poetry and Celtic spirituality at DIAS on March 20th @ 5.30pm! Join Michael Clarke for a discussion on the 'Song of Amairgen' in the Book of Invasions. #IrishHistory #medievalireland @diasdublin.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social

This week, Jacopo Bisagni and Pádraic Moran are presenting at the Karlsruhe Bede Conference in TCD. Jacopo is presenting on 'Auctoritas and the Use of Sources in the Karlsruhe Bede Glosses' and Pádraic on 'Palimpsests in the Early Irish Manuscript Tradition'. earlyirishhands.ie/karlsruhe-be...

Congratulations to Dr Paula Harrison, who passed her PhD viva yesterday! Her thesis, which was supervised by Dr Jacopo Bisagni, focussed on De diuisionibus temporum in Laon MS 422! @campsgalway.bsky.social

A new article by Michael Clarke examines the man-slaying Women of Lemnos in the Third Recension of Togail Troí (c. 1150–1250?), an episode that has received very little scholarly attention until now. muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...

Delighted to share Honor Faughnan's new article exploring the impact of the Aratean tradition on late Republican and Augustan poetry. This article stems from her undergraduate research at Galway Classics—a fantastic achievement! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Jacopo Bisagni delivered a lecture series this week at Harvard Celtic, which focussed on his research in three areas:

✨ The Old Irish Amrae Coluimb Chille

🌍 Networks of knowledge linking the Insular world, Brittany, and Francia during the Carolingian age

📜 Cosmological narratives in Laon MS 422