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EMISoS: Early Medieval Irish Scripts on Stone – The Origins and Early Development of Irish Epigraphic Culture

EMISoS is a 4-year research project funded by a Pathway Award from Research Ireland. The primary aim of the project is to advance our understanding and knowledge of early epigraphic writing in Ireland (both ogham and Insular Latin scripts) within the broader European context…

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DiⒶgnostic: Tracing Diatopic Variation in a Corpus of Old Irish

The DiⒶgnostic project, funded by an Advanced Laureate Award from Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland (project ID IRCLA/2023/2124; 2023–2027), aims at developing a new and more sophisticated corpus-based methodology to investigate the question if and to what extent Old Irish (7th–9th centuries) was internally differentiated by linguistic variation, be it diatopic or diastratic, and in what way this variation is reflected in the extant textual sources…

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BROKENSONG: Polyphonic Singing and Communities of Music Writing in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.1150-c.1350

Principal Investigator: Professor Karen Desmond To a great extent, historians of medieval cultures must learn to cope with a lot of loss. Humans through the ages endeavour to leave their mark on the world, yet inevitably time and events exact destruction on the material remnants of human activity. Studying medieval music entails dealing with significant…