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Catherine Swift

@bewattled.bsky.social

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Medievalist based in Limerick with interests in Ireland and the Irish church in a European context - St Patrick through to King John and all folk in between.

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Catherine Swift @bewattled.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

For those interested in earliest days of Christian church in Ireland, I’m speaking on the baptism of the king of Tara’s daughters at the site symbolising Queen Medb’s authority over Connacht (Rathcroghan) at TCD Long Hub 28th Jan at 6:30 as part of St Brigit celebrations.

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Catherine Swift @bewattled.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Lecture in TCD 6th Feb at 7:30 on Brigit’s early female followers and how they may have reconciled their Christian ideals with the prevailing norms of Irish society (and what that says about adoption and adaption of wider European ideas).

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Catherine Swift @bewattled.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Other scholars have understood it as Norse name AKI I think -check Barnes in the Nat Museum series (am in Bologna admiring 13thC monuments to university professors at the moment… 😂)

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