Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDavid Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Want to study medieval Irish literature, history and language at @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie? @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social and myself will be at the MU Open Day today to answer your questions. 0128
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaCeltic Hagiography Network @celtichagiography.bsky.social · 30/01/2026We are pleased and excited to be sponsoring the following sessions (and a round table) at @imc-leeds.bsky.social this summer, some co-sponsored/organised with @networknorse.bsky.social! 176
Tiago Veloso Silva @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Our special bonus episode just dropped and I'm very happy to have been part of this recording with @davidstifter.bsky.social and @niamhwycherley.bsky.social. If you ever wanted to listen to some early Irish poetry and prose being read out loud in their original, here's your chance!open.spotify.comSpotify – Web Player 12512
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Happy St Brigid's weekend! To celebrate we bring you a journey through Europe w/Prof. Jean-Michel Picard, UCD. He has unreal stories of hunting down manuscripts (incl. Napoleon & nazis!) & helps us understand the appeal of Brigid in lands far from Kildare! #brigid open.spotify.com/episode/0Bl4...open.spotify.comSt Brigit in Continental Europe with Prof. Jean-Michel Picard 36732
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaMaynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · 30/01/2026How Brigit continues to inspire poets, writers and artists 🎨 An Irish woman who has been dead for over 1,500 years continues to inspire extraordinary creative expression, write MU's Dr Niamh Wycherley, Prof David Stifter and Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo... 02811
Tiago Veloso Silva @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Have you listened to The Medieval Irish History Podcast's latest episode yet? In this episode, Dr Niamh Wycherley interviews Dr Sarah Waidler (NYU), a specialist on medieval Irish hagiographies and the various texts that can broadly be understood within the spectrum of holy writings.open.spotify.comHagiography with Dr Sarah Waidler 1308
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 28/11/2025The brilliant Prof. Alex Woolf @standrewshist.bsky.social is back on the podcast to tell us what the Scandinavian diaspora got up to in the Middle Ages & why 'The Vikings' is a problematic concept. @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3ljZ...open.spotify.comSpotify – Web Player 12411
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Did an Irish 'nation' ever exist? Who were the Scotti? The Féni? The Gaels? Dr Patrick Wadden, DCU & Belmont Abbey College, provides a masterclass on the written sources and how Irish authors conceptualised Irishness in the early Middle Ages. @maynoothuniversity.ie open.spotify.com/episode/40rP...open.spotify.comIrish national identity in the early Middle Ages with Dr Patrick Wadden 29226
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh! Our ethereal expert Dr Hannah Mac Auliffe @maynoothuniversity.ie guides us through the darkness of #samhain a time for feasting, mischief & terror in medieval Irish literature, when the veil between worlds is thin, & ghastly ghouls abound. open.spotify.com/episode/6gQ6...open.spotify.comSpooky Samhain with Dr Hannah Mac Auliffe 24114
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDavid Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025...Irish History podcast of his supervisor Dr Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social. The star of the event was Benedetta d'Antuono who won no less than three awards for her thesis "Ireland and Europe: cultural intersections and literary transitions in a late-medieval manuscript"... /2 271
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDavid Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Huge success for Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social today: our PhD students won 4 Graduate Research Academy 2025 Awards of @maynoothuniversity.ie @muresearch.bsky.social. Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva received the Postgraduate Research Community Impact Award for his work for the Medieval... /1 2226
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 17/10/2025How would be treated for a broken heart, menstrual cramps or infertility in medieval Ireland? Expert @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social takes us through the vast array of medical texts, the 11th c surge in scientific writing & evidence for drs & doctoring in the Middle Ages. open.spotify.com/episode/34oG...open.spotify.comMedieval Medicine with Prof. Deborah Hayden 23314
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2open.spotify.comPoets and Poetry with Dr Elizabeth Boyle 16625
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaLydia Hursh @lydiahursh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Hello everyone! See the new conference here @maynoothuniversity.ie with the @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! The google link below is our registration form, we look forward to seeing you here!! forms.gle/8katSS8HZSuf... 094
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025* @hoireabhard.bsky.social who has been our postdoctoral researcher on the project since May, and PhD candidate @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing some of the results of our work! 2/2 032
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaRoyal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 05/09/2025Join us for a two-day conference on the Book of Lecan. A collaboration between RIA, @maynoothuniversity.ie and the @dias.ie this is a wonderful opportunity to explore one of the the great treasures of Ireland's literary heritage. Book your tickets now shop.maynoothuniversity.ie/index.php?ap... 097
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Anyone in the Meath area: the @researchireland.ie 'Power & Patronage...' team* will be giving a talk on Thursday September 18th, 7.30pm, St Finnian's Parish Centre, Clonard, titled 'Clonard: residence of kings, school of saints'. Free entry. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie 1/2 2147
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Last ep season 2! We chat to the erudite @elainepf.bsky.social re the Penitentials, some of the earliest written texts from the 'Insular world'. Back in Sept, have a lovely summer! Thanks all esp @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @researchireland.ie open.spotify.com/episode/3I9T...open.spotify.comSin and Penance with Dr Elaine Pereira FarrellThe Medieval Irish History Podcast · Episode 0166
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Nearing the end of season 2 & we've hit over 100K listens on the podcast 🥂. Thanks to all of our guests for sharing their time & expertise! Thoroughly enjoyed talking medieval Ireland over the last 38 episodes, more anon! @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie open.spotify.com/show/1Gq9yIx...open.spotify.comThe Medieval Irish History PodcastPodcast · The Medieval Irish History Podcast · Hosted by Dr Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engagin... 3477
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNational Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog 122173
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaSchool of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Extended 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...dias.ieApplications open for Research Ireland Pathway PhD Studentship. – DIAS 01312
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaScoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Síneadh ar an #CfP! Tá comhdháil á heagrú ag mic léinn sa Scoil dar teideal *Widame (Próta-Cheiltis "d'fhionnamar"). Cuirtear fáilte roimh thaighdeoirí iarchéime achoimre 200 focal agus beathaisnéis ghearr a chur chuig widame.maynooth@gmail.com roimh 18 Bealtaine 2025. 023
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaScoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025#CfP extended! Students in the School are organising a conference titled *Widame (Proto-Celtic "we found out"). Postgraduate researchers are invited to submit a 200 word abstract and short biography to widame.maynooth@gmail.com by 18 May 2025. 143
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaSeán Ó Hoireabhárd @hoireabhard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I am very excited to be joining the 'Power and Patronage in Medieval Ireland' project at @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social as of today! I will be working with PI @niamhwycherley.bsky.social & PhD candidate @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social to help explain Clonard's place in the medieval Irish landscape. 2304
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaScoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Don't miss the ‘Medical Words/Medical Worlds’ workshop in the University of Cambridge on 5-6 June 2025! 🩻 Speakers will explore medieval medical lexicography and translation in a range of European linguistic traditions. 🌍 More info: buff.ly/r77QWCA 1107
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Another topical #nuntastic RTÉ Brainstorm article from @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social: How Agnes of Clonard, Co. Meath, won protection from the Pope c.1195 & defended her monastery during the English conquest of Ireland. @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...rte.ieMeet 'The Great Nun' who won papal protection in Medieval IrelandAgnetha Ní Máelshechlainn was a clever political negotiator who defended her monastery from expropriation during the English conquest of Ireland 01910
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou @ninacnock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025🚨 LESS THAN A WEEK left to register!! Bígí linn! Everyone's welcome 🤗 🗓️ (Re)Creating Stories Conference, 23–24 May, DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin. FREE registration **by 13th May** 🔗 www.dias.ie/2025/04/16/r... #Conferences #AcademicSky #Gaeilge #EarlyModern 086
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaSchool of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 29/04/2025PhD studentship available ‘The Lives and Miracles of St. Laurence O’Toole’. To work on Latin texts of miracles of St Laurence under Dr Jesse Harrington (DIAS) and Dr Niamh Wycherley (Maynooth University). Deadline: 23 May 2025 Deis mhaith do laidneoirí! #DIASdiscovers @celticstudiesmu.bsky.socialdias.ieApplications open for Research Ireland Pathway PhD Studentship. – DIAS 02620
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaAssociation of Celtic Students @celticstudents.bsky.social · 04/05/2025The Association of Celtic Students will be holding its twelfth annual conference from 12 to 14 June 2025. This year’s conference will be a hybrid event. Guests are warmly invited to attend in-person presentations at Aberystwyth University, or to attend online if they prefer. 22011
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaChantal Kobel @chantalkobel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025In the last years of her life, the outstanding Celticist Cecile O'Rahilly was working on her final project, a synthesis of the development of Táin Bó Cúailnge. Although at an advanced stage, it was misplaced for some 40 years but was recently rediscovered! I'll be talking about this & more tomorrow 24913
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaSchool of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 22/04/2025DÉARDAOIN - THURSDAY Bígí linn do léacht Chantal Kobel: Join us for Chantal Kobel's lecture: The Recovery of Cecile O'Rahilly's lost work on Táin Bó Cúailnge DIAS Dublin 5.30 Thursday 24 April www.dias.ie/2025/02/10/l...dias.ieLecture series 2025 – DIAS 3183
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Easter is always a good time to reflect on the majesty of Sitric Silkenbeard, King of Dublin, d.1042 (amongst other things of course — happy holidays to all those who celebrate! 🍫🐣🐰✝️) @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social 02610
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaRTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Forget the Battle of Clontarf, Sitric Silkenbeard is still the greatest Dubliner of all time, writes @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...rte.ieWhy Sitric Silkenbeard is the greatest Dubliner of all timeHe 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 2137
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This week on the pod we are joined by @cgschweizer.bsky.social who is conducting some brilliant @researchireland.bsky.social funded research in @galwayclassics.bsky.social on Irish scholar Dicuil & the craic had at the Carolingian Court in Aachen, early 9th century. open.spotify.com/episode/3bLL...open.spotify.comDicuil and Irish scholars at the Carolingian Court with Dr Christian SchweizerThe Medieval Irish History Podcast · Episode 24516
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaScoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025🚨 Tá comhdháil á heagrú ag mic léinn iarchéime na Scoile dar teideal *Widame (Próta-Cheiltis "d'fhionnamar"). Cuirtear fáilte roimh thaighdeoirí iarchéime achoimre 200 focal agus beathaisnéis ghearr a chur chuig widame.maynooth@gmail.com roimh 25 Aibreán 2025. #CfP 043
Tiago Veloso Silva @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Consider submitting an abstract for the new conference *Widame for Postgraduate Scholars in Celtic Studies! #medieval #CfP #medievalsky 020
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDeborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The website for the new Research Cluster 'Mind and Material in the Middle Ages' @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is now live! Check it out to learn about all the cool Medieval Studies research happening at Maynooth: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia... 0145
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDylan Bailey (he/him) @djbirishhistory.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Honoured to see my work published in the 42nd Proceedings of the @harvard.edu Celtic Colloquium! Thank you for the opportunity to broadcast my research, looking forward to reading the other contributions! 081
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDeborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Two of my awesome PhD students, Benedetta D'Antuono and @djbirishhistory.bsky.social, have had their research on medieval Irish literature published in the latest Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 😊 Well done both! 🎉 @scs-dias.bsky.social 0184
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaScoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Congratulations to Dr Chantal Kobel (@chantalkobel.bsky.social), who has been awarded a Maynooth University Seed Funding Grant for her project ‘SCRÍBHINN: Scribal Culture in Medieval Irish Schools of Law and Medicine’. @maynoothuniversity.ie More info: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/early-irish-... 6294
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaDavid Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Very proud of and many congratulations to my PhD student Paul Le Meur-Bouthemy who won the all-France prize for best Master thesis 2023/4 in the English Middle Ages. HIs thesis has the title "Le sermon vieil anglais De Falsis Diis et sa version norroise du Hauksbók: textes, traductions,... /1 3252
Reposted by Tiago Veloso SilvaNiamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 30/01/2025In honour of the upcoming long weekend in honour of St Brigit/Feb 1st, see below a great article by Tiago Veloso Silva on some of the great Irish women who came after Brigit in Kildare @maynoothuni.bsky.social @celticstudiesmu.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...rte.ieThe other Brigids: the forgotten mighty women of Medieval IrelandSt Brigid may have led the way, but there were other powerful, inspiring and influential women who blazed a trail in Medieval Kildare 05119
