Today, September 23rd, is the feast of St Adomnán, one of the earliest real people from Irish history for whom we have loads of historical information & from whom we have many surviving texts. Find out more from Prof Thomas Clancy Iona Namescape on The Medieval Irish History Podcast! Tiago Veloso Silva

We're back! Season 2 kicks off with an intro to early Irish literature from @thecelticist. Sagas, 'Celtic' myths, heroic tales, whatever we call them, Dr Boyle guides us through these sophisticated stories. Deirdre, Cú Chulainn, Queen Medb, Samhain etc! open.spotify.com/episode/57ozs2…

The Medieval Irish History Podcast is back for a new season. In time for #halloween2024 there's a little chat on #Samhain tucked into @thecelticist's introduction to medieval Irish literature. Thanks Early Irish Maynooth We are now Research Ireland Maynooth University for continued support and to Tiago Veloso Silva for producing.

This week on the podcast we chat to Anthony Candon about Muirchertach Ua Briain (c.1050–1119), king of Munster, king of all Ireland, & great-grandson of Brian Bóru. We learn of his rise to power, his influence on the Church, his international status ... 1/ open.spotify.com/episode/06gi12…

Tionól 2024 Bígí linn 21-23 Samhain. Join us 21-23 November dias.ie/2024/10/25/tio… #DIASdiscovers

To celebrate the end of Research Week Maynooth University, check out the October 2024 blog for the We are now Research Ireland LEIGHEAS project Early Irish Maynooth Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute: this month, I take a look at medieval Irish lore concerning 'The First Physicians of Ireland’ 👇📖 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/the-first-phys…

🥳 I'm organising a conference! 🚨 #CfP (Re)Creating Stories, a conference on rewritings & adaptations of Old/Middle Irish narratives in Early Modern/ Modern Irish/Gaelic, up to & including 18th cy. More details 🔗dias.ie/2024/11/05/cal… Feel free to email me with any questions!

Thank you to Niamh Wycherley and Tiago Veloso Silva for having me on The Medieval Irish History Podcast to chat about Irish manuscripts, medieval alphabet soup, quills as weapons, belt-books and more!

Before/after watching Maynooth's own Paul Mescal in Gladiator II why not catch up on our episode from March with @ElvaBJohnston on Ireland in the Roman Empire!

Celebrating Columbanus's feast day (Nov 23rd, 615) expert Dr Alexander O'Hara tells us all about this intrepid aristocratic learned monastic founder! A visionary who preached European unity centuries ahead of his time, but was he zero craic? Find out now! open.spotify.com/episode/6TcCmY…

This week on the pod! Thanks so much to Sharon Greene @shazarch.bsky.social for chatting to us about the importance of historians & archaeologists working together to explore & understand the medieval world. Ringforts, Killeen Cormac, cattle, sheep, pollen, 'remote' islands etc! open.spotify.com/episode/2xtMk3…

A large delegation from Early Irish Maynooth (only a fraction pictured below) were at the première of the neo-Old Irish hymn "Rétglu etir rind" (lyrics David Stifter 🍵📄🦊, music Ryan Molloy) at Maynooth University's & St Patrick's Pontifical University's annual Christmas Carol Service on Tuesday. A splendid evening!

Meet the forgotten mighty women of Medieval Ireland. St Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail from Kildare, writes Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva Maynooth University Research Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

See below great article by Tiago Veloso Silva on a few of the many great Irish women who came after St Brigit in Kildare #nuntastic #queens We are now Research Ireland Maynooth University Early Irish Maynooth rte.ie/brainstorm/202… via RTÉ

Job alert!! Come work with us in Early Irish Maynooth! 18 month postdoctoral researcher position on our Research Ireland Pathway project 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the sixth to twelfth centuries'. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecrui…

Consider submitting an abstract for the new conference *Widame for Postgraduate Scholars in Celtic Studies! #medieval #CfP #callforpapers #nuntastic

Another amazing episode! Congratulations Christian Schweizer on your amazing research!

Why Sitric Silkenbeard is the greatest Dubliner of all time. He may be seen as one of the baddies of Irish history thanks to the Battle of Clontarf, but Silkenbeard built Dublin into a cosmopolitan city, writes Niamh Wycherley Maynooth University Research Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2025, brought to you by the excellent Siobhán Barrett, is Dublin, National Library of Ireland MS G8, a ‘pocket-size medical encyclopaedia’ with a Kildare connection: 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-manus…

Meet 'The Great Nun' who won papal protection in Medieval Ireland: Agnetha Ní Máelshechlainn was a clever political negotiator who defended her monastery from expropriation, writes Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva Maynooth University Research Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202…