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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 24/11/2025

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the O’Gara manuscript. Written in the Low Countries in the mid-17th C, this collection of poetry transmits important literary material from manuscript sources that have since been lost.

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Geraldine Parsons @gparsons.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... - Short-term research fellowships (1-4 weeks) available in the University of Glasgow Library, to work with our wonderful Archives and Special Collections. Do apply if this would suit you - a number of Celticists have been successful in the past.

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University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

GRMA @tuairisc.bsky.social ! "'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚 tuairisc.ie/an-leann-cei...

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An Léann Ceilteach san Ísiltír slán … mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla

Tá deireadh á chur leis Léann Ceilteach in Ollscoil Utrecht san Ísiltír mar chúrsa céime neamhspleách, ach mairfidh cuid de mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla

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Societas Celtologica Europaea @soccelteuropaea.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Lecture alert @celticuu.bsky.social! 🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source? 📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December 🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

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Lecture Seán Ó Hoireabhard: Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?

Seán Ó Hoireabhard discusses whether the medieval Irish Lebor na Cert ‘The Book of Rights’, with its many flaws, can be regarded as a reliable historical source.

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🎓 Symposium Alert! 31st of October, the workshop 'Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World' will take place. Satoko Tokunaga of Keio University Japan will give the keynote lecture entitled 'Shaping sacred landscapes and early printing in late medieval England' 📚 More 👉 www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...

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Workshop: Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World

Explore during this workshop the concepts of spatiality, landscape, and the sacred in the premodern world, from antiquity to the Renaissance.

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Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

IERSE VERHALEN | In de derde van in totaal vier afleveringen kijken we in de @ubleiden.bsky.social met dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) naar verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland! 🎧 De derde aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren 🧵 1/2 #podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland

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Verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland: meertalige geleerden in de glossen (1/2)

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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

About this. I've just received an email from a friend and associate of Maartje Draak saying Maartje would have been 'highly satisfied' with this article, and I'm, just, I can't even, what. This is probably the best peer review I'll ever get in my life.

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Je bent zelf een uil!! Luister nu naar de nieuwe september aflevering over Middeleeuws Ierland bij #MiddeleeuwenPodcast!

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Another hulloh! to our trusty followers: keep your eye out for new public lectures, podcasts, and events announced on this channel to satisfy all your Celtic Cravings! Amidst all the uncertainties in our Faculty, we'll make sure to make this an absolute banger of a year together with you 🎉

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Welcome to our 14 😍 first year *felmaic* (students), who will be embarking on the magical journey that is Old Irish on Thursday (insert epic music here). Also, of course, a big fáilte/croeso to our current students, who will return to learn more, do more, and write brilliant theses this year! 🔥1/2

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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Ken je die grap van een podcastmaker en een wetenschapper die een bieb binnen liepen om een tweeluik te maken? ... .... Tsja, dat werd een vierluik dus.

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy New Academic Year! Begin goed met deel één van een vierluik dat een tweeluik had moeten zijn over middeleeuws Ierland bij de onvolprezen Podcast Middeleeuwen! Van bronnentombola tot hanschriftenshuffle, ga mee op dit doldwaze avontuur 🔥

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In their series 'protest songs', Nike talks about the various ways in which Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile has been used as a protest - from the Jacobites to the feminists to our own Celtic students via Pádraig Mac Piarais. 2/2

Nike Stam in front of a microphone with headphones on in the radio studio with a banner stating her name and function (universitair docent Keltische talen en cultuur UU)

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Miss Celtic while you're enjoying the lovely summer? Then listen to our assistant-professor Nike on Dutch National Radio's history show OVT @omroepvpro and sing along to Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile! 🎤 🎼 1/2 www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...

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Historische protestsongs: Oró, sé do bheatha ‘bhaile

Het historische protestlied 'Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile' met keltoloog Nike Stam.

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Are you still basking in the after glow of the #MaartjeDraakSeminars2025? ☀️ Then bask some more in this wonderful #Aftermovie, produced by @veraortlep! 🙏 We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you again in september! 🐉💚☘️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFp...

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Maartje Draak Seminars 2025: The Aftermovie

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Registration for the Maartje Draak Seminars 2025 is now open! 🥳 🖌 Registration via: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/FyXYEyg5TJ... (closes on the 11th of June!) 🐉 Programma via: keltisch.sites.uu.nl/maar.../maar... 🔥 Let us know whether we'll see you there this year! 🔥

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Chantal Kobel @chantalkobel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Excellent work by all involved!

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Helen Davies @helsinhashtags.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I am so excited that this is live! @naoicea.bsky.social ’s article for which Dr. Katie Albers-Morris and I did the image processing and tech write up for is now live! Nike did an incredible pain-staking job with the translation and transcription. I am in awe of the effort she put into this edition.

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We are very delighted that dr. Jasper de Bruin of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden will speak at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars on the recently discovered Bunnik coin hoard, which contains both Celtic and Roman coins. Of course, we will be able to see the coins themselves on location @rmoudheden.bsky.social !

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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

You know you're studying a good language when there is a word specifically for *the neck of a decapitated body* Sometimes I forget how wonderfully graphic Fled Bricrenn is - why is there no film yet? eDIL s.v. méide or dil.ie/31755

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eDIL - Irish Language Dictionary

The electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) is a digital dictionary of medieval Irish. It is based on the ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY’S Dictionary of the Irish Language based mainly on Old and Midd...

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Many thanks to #HistorischCafeAmsterdam for their invitation to speak about Kneecap, #Gaeilge and #CelticStudies. And well done to the audience for their amazing questions 🔥 Keep up the good work!

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We greatly look forward to hearing Dr. Hunter speak at the Maartje Draak Seminars, 25-26 June 2025! Want to know who our second speaker is? Well, keep an eye on the socials ;-) (registration link will be available soon)

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We are delighted that dr. Fraser Hunter has agreed to be one of our speakers at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars 2025! He is the principal curator of prehistoric and Roman archaeology at the National Museums Scotland with a strong focus on ‘Celtic Art’ and the impact of the Romans on local populations.

PR image of the Maartje Draak Seminars 2025 which says 'sneak peek!' and which includes an image of dr. Fraser Hunter looking at a Roman arm guard

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

REJOYCE, the #MaartjeDraakSeminars will be back! 😍 #SaveTheDate: Wednesday 25 June and Thursday 26 June will see our second edition of the Maartje Draak Seminars, with the theme 'The Legacy of Celtic Culture in the Roman World'. More information to be released soon, so keep an eye on our socials 🔥

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Middeleeuwen Podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

MIDDELEEUWEN | Vanaf maandag 28 april gaan we naar de Middeleeuwen! Wetenschappers uit Nederland en België nemen je mee naar die zo boeiende periode uit de geschiedenis. Benieuwd? Luister naar de trailer en zorg dat je Middeleeuwen volgt in je eigen podcastapp 🎧 ➡️ linktr.ee/middeleeuwen

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Middeleeuwen

Podcast · Epping Productions · Een podcast over de Middeleeuwen. Van Hadewijch tot Clovis, vikingen tot kloosterleven… en heel veel meer!Iedere week praten wetenschappers ons een uurtje bij over hun o...

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

...and we thank you for that. Utrecht university has a record of excellence in Celtic studies going back a hundred years, and we will strive for this excellence for the next hundred years in new ways.

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

we can develop a beautiful new shape for this together with our colleagues in the English department. The fact that that this is possible at all, is entirely thanks to the large amount of support we have received nationally and internationally,.. (3/4)

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

..this means that we will stop to exist as an independent programme from 2030 onwards with a last intake of first-year BA students Celtic in the year '25/26. However, all these reports are based on the successful maintenance of a Celtic expertise at Utrecht University, and we're hopeful.. (2/3)

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Today, our faculty council brought out an advice on the closure of the BA-programme Celtic Studies @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social . Together with the positive advice brought forward by UNL and DLG, (...) 1/4

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#CeltsOnTour! Our Medieval Celtic Palaeography class was on excursion to Leiden University Library, and we saw some very cool manuscripts. Many thanks to Leiden, and to Vera for the wonderful video! Manuscripts in video are: BPL 67 BPL 67D VLF 96A VLQ 7 VL) 35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqNl...

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Excursion for Medieval Celtic Palaegraphy at Utrecht University

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

He was a pupil of Anton van Hamel and worked closely with Maartje Draak. He was incarcerated towards the end of the war, and his remains were never found. oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/personen/252...

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Theodor Max Chotzen

In Nederland zijn 180.000 mensen door de Oorlogsgravenstichting geregistreerd als oorlogsslachtoffer. Mannen, vrouwen en kinderen die hun leven verloren…

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Today, a Dutch book was launched on the Battle at the Grebbenberg, which took place during the invasion of the NLs in WOII. It includes the experiences of Dutch Celticist Th. Chotzen, who became part of the resistance movement 1/2 @nporadio1.bsky.social www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/s...

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De slag om Grebbeberg

85 jaar geleden vielen de Duitsers Nederland binnen. Het Nederlandse leger verzette zich vijf dagen maar moest zich toen overgeven. Eén van de zwaarste slagen vond plaats op de Grebbeberg, bij Wagenin...

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Did you know....... that a book is soon to come out on the connections between Scifi and Old Irish Travel Narratives? Leave it to dr. Natalia Petrovskaia to write 'Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives: From Gulliver to Star Trek' - soon to be out with Brill! 🛸🚀🌠

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

#CeltsOnTour! 🍀 Woensdag werd het @utrechtuniversity doe-boek 'Zoek het Uit!' gepresenteerd. Superfeestelijk natuurlijk, maar wist je dat er in dit boek ook een stukje over ~geheimtaal~ staat? 🤫 En niet zomaar een geheimtaal.... maar een geheimtaal met middeleeuws Ierse letters en Ierse woorden! 🖌😍

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Celts on Tour! Today, we offered our dossier with signatures, letters, and news articles to our Rector Magnificus. We had a good chat about the value of small subjects and expertises and how these may be safeguarded for the future. Keep your fingers crossed for us over the next few months!

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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Cú Chulainn is mad! #StopDeSloop

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dr. Nike @naoicea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Nír lessaigis in saíthe! You did not benefit learning!

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Count Cormacula @cormacos.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Solidarity from Ireland to those protesting cuts to education - including the awesome Celtic language programme - over in the Netherlands. ✊

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Chantal Kobel @chantalkobel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Very grateful to @celticuu.bsky.social & the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies for inviting me to give a palaeography seminar to the undergraduates, followed by a public lecture & a lengthy q&a afterwards. Really enjoyed it and it's great to see such wide interest in Irish manuscript culture!

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Next week - Lecture "Mercian Authors and the Celtic World"! Christine Rauer (University of St. Andrews) explore evidence from Irish, Breton, and Welsh literary trends which can be shown to have influenced Anglo-Saxon productions in characteristic ways. All welcome! www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

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Lecture Christine Rauer: Mercian Authors and the Celtic World

This Centre for Medieval Studies lecture, Christine Rauer will reveal the evidence of literary borrowings between Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Celtic cultures.

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

We did a happy photo and a serious photo, because really, the situation of Dutch Higher Education is quite serious 📚 Many thanks to Iris and her team for their time and support!

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Today we offered the Dean of Interdisciplinary Education (Iris van der Tuin) and her colleagues our dossier on Celtic Studies - with all your letters showing the incredible interdisciplinary support we receive 🍀 🐉

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Celtic Languages and Culture Utrecht University @celticuu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Next week on Valentine's Day, the brilliant Chantal Kobel of Maynooth University will host a public lecture as part of the The Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies series! Because, who ISN'T in love with medieval Irish manuscripts?! 😍 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

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