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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for July 2026 is London, British Library MS 15403, containing a tract on the properties of 167 ingredients. It's one of several Irish medical MSS recently digitised for the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project! leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 3, the Stowe Missal. Written in Latin between A.D. 792-803, the Stowe Missal is a Mass-book of the early Irish Church, small enough to be carried around for the use of a priest on his travels.

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 A 4, containing texts on uroscopy copied in the 16th century by Aodh Ó Cendamháin, physician to the O’Flahertys in Co. Mayo: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for May 2026 is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G453, written primarily by Cathal Ó Duinnshléibhe in 1592/3 and containing this Irish translation of a popular versified work on health regimen: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Siobhán Barrett @siobhbar.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I am looking forward to speaking about Irish medical scribes from Co Mayo at the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar on Monday next 27th April. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2026 is London, British Library MS Egerton 159, written in 1592 by the Leinster physician Tadhg Mac Caisín and recently digitised for the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project! Read more about it here: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done! #LámhscríbhinníGaeilge Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Another year, another series of Irish medical manuscripts! The LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month for January 2026 is Dublin, TCD 1357 (H.4.16), written in Co. Mayo in 1563 and containing several texts on uroscopy: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Tá forbairt á déanamh againn ar Gharraí na Gaeilge chun cultúr Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, idir sean agus nua, a chur in iúl. Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge. Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa

Ogham stone inscribed with 'Ollscoil Mhá Nuad' in ogham script (foreground) with traditional currach (background) in Garraí na Gaeilge in the Arts Building, Maynooth University

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

🌲2️⃣3️⃣🎁 Medieval Irish History Podcast The staff in the @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of Early Irish have a lot of experience when it comes to the public dissemination of their research, but none more so than Dr Niamh Wycherley. As part of her @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant, she started… 📖

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026 Deadline: 5 January 2026 www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v... @dias.ie

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Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · 19/12/2025

📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄 www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...

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206. Christmas before Christians

This week the wonderful Dr Niamh Wycherly from Maynooth University joins us to discuss what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🌲1️⃣9️⃣🎁 DiⒶgnostic On 31 August 2023, the very last day of my sabbatical year 2022/3, I was informed by the IRC (@researchireland.ie) of the award of an Advanced Laureate Award for ‘DiⒶgnostic – Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish’. This four-year project started in December 2023. 📖

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁 Cisalpine Celtic literacy Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/). 📖

Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum, © Stefan Schumacher et al.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

🌲2️⃣1️⃣🎁 OPal+ As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central… 📖

Ogham Palaeography+: Katherine Forsyth creating an ogam stick.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

🌲2️⃣2️⃣🎁 Irish manuscript culture Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and… 📖

Examples of Chantal Kobel’s penmanship from the workshop with Thomas Keyes March 2024.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 22/12/2025

The MS of the week is RIA MS D ii 1, the Book of Uí Mhaine. This late 14th century manuscript contains a late Middle Irish versified form of the 17 Wonders of the Night of Christ’s Birth. This apocryphal tradition includes miracles such as fruiting vines in the middle of winter🍇

The image shows a close-up of old manuscript pages with handwritten Gaelic text in dark ink. The text is presented with a decorative capital letter.

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for December 2025 is TCD MS 1435 (E.3.30), containing Irish versions of works by Petrus de Argellata, Bernard of Gordon & John of Gaddesden, as well as this diagram of the 7 tunics of the eye: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🌲1️⃣6️⃣🎁 Power and Patronage Dr Niamh Wycherley interests lie in the church history, the history of women in medieval Ireland, & patterns of patronage. After having received the @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social Publication Prize in History 2017 for ‘The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland’, Niamh won… 📖

cover of Niamh Wycherley, The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland [=
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

🌲1️⃣7️⃣🎁 LEIGHEAS Prof Deborah Hayden’s research into the history of medieval and early modern Irish medicine continues with her second @researchireland.ie Laureate Award ‘LEIGHEAS – Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World’ 2022. The aim of LEIGHEAS (Irish for ‘remedy’… 📖

Sketch of phlebotomy man in London, British Library MS Add. 15582, fo. 61v; MS digitised by the LEIGHEAS project.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🌲1️⃣1️⃣🎁 Digital Gaelic Early 2020, Prof Deborah Hayden, Dr Nora White and I were awarded a UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Grant by the AHRC (@ukri.org) and IRC (@researchireland.ie) for ‘Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World’ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/ael/.... 📖

website of ‘Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World’

UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities poster

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

🌲1️⃣2️⃣🎁 Ancient Celtic languages The Maynooth Department of Early Irish is not only known for its academic expertise in the cultural heritage of medieval Ireland. My other huge interest for more than 30 years has been the ancient Celtic languages of the Continent (Lepontic, Gaulish, Celtiberian). 📖

Ancient Celtic languages and writing © David Stifter after Uderzo & Goscinny

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

🌲1️⃣3️⃣🎁 OG(H)AM The next major international project, short title OG(H)AM, resulted directly from the Digital Gaelic project, again jointly funded by @ukri.org and the IRC (@researchireland.ie). Starting from a collaboration between Dr Nora White (Maynooth) and Prof Katherine Forsyth (Glasgow),… 📖

OG(H)AM – Harnessing Digital Technologies to Transform Understanding of Ogham Writing, from the 4ᵗʰ Century to the 21ˢᵗ project website

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

🌲1️⃣5️⃣🎁 Latinate Inscriptions Following her 2006 PhD in Maynooth (an edition of the tales about Mongán mac Fíachnai), Dr Nora White became one of the leading scholar in Ireland for ogam inscriptions. She was the main person behind the development of the Ogham in 3D website (ogham.celt.dias.ie/)... 📖

Nora White, Compert Mongáin and Three Other Early Mongán tales: A Critical Edition with Introduction, Translation, Textual Notes, Bibliography and Vocabulary [= Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts 5], Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish 2006.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🌲🔟🎁 Codices Eximii Hibernenses When he was Ollamh na Nua-Ghaeilge at @maynoothuniversity.ie, Ruairí Ó hUiginn initiated a conference series dedicated to the most important medieval and early modern manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Irish Academy (@ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social). 📖

Meeting Room Royal Irish Aacademy, © KarenRIA - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76382878

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Ba ag Imbolc 2016, agus é ag caint ar an dtogra seo a chur mé aithne ar @davidstifter.bsky.social agus thosaigh á leanúint i Ríocht an Éin vimeo.com/179032429?tu...

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Sa chaint seo tugann David Stifter, Ollamh leis an tSean-Ghaeilge i gColáiste Mhaigh Nuad, cur síos dúinn ar thionscadal úrnua atá…

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Tá cáil air i measc na nGael do éacht lasmuigh den Acadamh, i. Iallach a chur ar an Roinn Dlí agus cirt an foirm iarratais ar shaoránacht a chur ar fáil as Gaeilge. Ní gan dua a rinne sé sin. tuairisc.ie/fearg-fos-ar...

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Fearg fós ar léachtóir sa tSean-Ghaeilge faoi dhearcadh na Roinne Dlí ar a iarratas saoránachta

Tá Dr Fangzhe Qiu míshásta go háirithe faoi aguisín a cuireadh le freagra a tugadh sa Dáil faoina chás le déanaí

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 22 The first feature that the DiⒶgnostic team investigated as an alleged marker of dialectal variation in Old Irish is the word(s) for ‘self’. The screenshot from eDIL (dil.ie/20990) gives an idea of the enormous proliferation of forms meaning ‘self’ in Old Irish sources. /1

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

🌲8️⃣🎁 Research seminars and conferences Dr Elizabeth Boyle established a series of three research seminars every semester in the Department of Early Irish as a forum for scholarly discourse and outreach in 2014. Since then, she and other colleagues have invited 66 scholars to speak in this series. 📖

A great crowd attending the Early Irish Research Seminar, 4 December 2025 © David Stifter.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

🌲9️⃣🎁 Medical learning Having originally studied the native grammatical tradition of medieval Ireland, Prof Deborah Hayden became intrigued by the overlap of grammar with medical learning in medieval Irish manuscripts. After joining the Department of Early Irish in 2015, Deborah received a @ria.ie… 📖

cover of Deborah Hayden and Paul Russell (eds.), Grammatica, Gramadach and Gramadeg: Vernacular Grammar and Grammarians in Medieval Ireland and Wales [= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 125], Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2016.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

🌲4️⃣🎁 PhDs Elizabeth Boyle’s research has attracted many talented postgraduate students to do their PhDs in Maynooth. Daniel Watson (Canada) wrote an extensive study of “Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland”. Daniel was a Hume Scholar at @maynoothuniversity.ie; after graduating in 2019, his PhD… 📖

Daniel Watson, Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierarchy and Inspiration, PhD thesis, Maynooth 2018.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🌲3️⃣🎁 Blathmac’s Poems In 2013, Siobhán Barrett started on a PhD, supported by a @maynoothuniversity.ie Hume Scholarship and then by an IRC GOI Scholarship (@researchireland.ie), with the aim of creating a lexical database of the Poems of Blathmac. This soon turned into something much bigger. 📖

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS G50, beginning of Blathmac’s Poems, p. 122. © Irish Script on Screen.

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National University of Ireland @nuimerrionsq.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

NUI Awards Alumna, Dr Niamh Wycherley, addresses all award recipients on the importance of NUI awards and funding.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🌲1️⃣🎁 Medieval Irish charms When asked for an inaugural lecture as Professor of Old and Middle Irish at @maynoothuniversity.ie (2012), I was desperately looking for a suitable topic. But after some deliberation, I chose one that I had already worked on before, namely Old Irish healing charms. 📖

The 3rd Stowe Missal Charm © David Stifter 2012, image © Royal Irish Academy and Irish Script on Screen

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

🌲2️⃣🎁 Church history and Christian learning In 2013, Dr Elizabeth Boyle joined the Department of Early Irish. One of her chief interests is the religious, cultural and literary history of early medieval Ireland (7ᵗʰ–12ᵗʰ centuries), that is the homilies, law, theological and philosophical texts,… 📖

© Royal Irish Academy, Irish Script on Screen, RIA MS 23 N 10, p. 90, a Middle Irish poem on idolatry.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

In the past two days, the Maynooth Early Irish postgraduate students organised the *Widame Conference for Postgraduate Scholars in Celtic Studies @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social. We had the pleasure to welcome speakers from universities in six countries. /1

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for November 2025 is Maynooth, @mulibrary.bsky.social MS C110, containing an Irish translation of Arnaldus de Villanova’s Speculum medicinae completed in Rosscarbery, Co. Cork on 15 May 1414: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland. A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe, writes @maireadfinnegan.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland

A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

For the September 2025 LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month, the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social looks at Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 P 10 iii, containing a compilation of texts on fevers and many beautiful illuminations. Read more here! 👇📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for August 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 24 P 15, containing Irish versions of Petrus de Argellata’s surgical text and the works of Bernard of Gordon. Read more here! 👇 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man... @siobhbar.bsky.social

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Nora White @ndefaoite.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

screenshot showing a map of ogham locations (more to add) with search filters and an index of ogham inscriptions below

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for July 2025 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 N 29. It consists of 23 paper fragments, one of which is a portion of the sole surviving prosimetrical remedy collection in Irish. Read more here! 👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for June 2025 is London, British Library MS Add. 15582, completed in Co. Mayo, Ireland in 1563 & then brought to Scotland. It contains texts on regimen, cautery & this image of a ‘Phlebotomy Man’: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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MURAL @mu-mural.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Hayden, Deborah and Baccianti, Sarah (2025) Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World. Vernacular Texts and Traditions. mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...

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Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World. Vernacular Texts and Traditions - MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for May 2025 is Edinburgh, NLS Adv. MS 72.1.4 (‘Neil MacBeath’s Psalter’), containing a copy of Psalm 118 followed by medical definitions and aphorisms in Latin with Irish translations: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Extended deadline: 6 June 2025 PhD studentship The Lives and Miracles of St Laurence O'Toole Work on Latin Miracula under Dr Jesse Harrington (DIAS) and Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth). www.dias.ie/applications... @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMW428/r...

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Applications open for Research Ireland Pathway PhD Studentship. – DIAS

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