Principal Investigator: Dr Chantal Kobel The central aim of SCRÍBHINN is to advance our understanding of the nature and scope of scribal culture and knowledge exchange intersecting medieval Irish schools of law and medicine, ca. 1350–1650. The vernacular Irish legal and medical manuscripts and their contents at the heart of this project will shed new…
Commissioned by the Office of Public Works (OPW) and directed by the late John Bradley (MU Department of History), the first phase of the Urban Archaeology Survey (UAS) was carried out between 1982 and 1995…
One of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland, Moynagh Lough in Co. Meath is an exceptional multi-period wetland site with rich artefactual assemblages from multiple levels and phases, most notably the early Middle Ages. It was excavated between 1980 and 1998 and the post-excavation phase of research recommenced at MU in 2018 under the directorship of Michael Potterton…
This is a 4-year history project funded by a Pathway award from Research Ireland. This project proposes a detailed case study of one medieval Irish institution of strategic importance, the Church of Clonard…
Ogham Palaeography+ (OPal+) is a collaborative project between researchers at the University of Glasgow and Maynooth University, funded by an Impact and Engagement Award from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project aims at enhancing the awareness of the unique medieval Gaelic ogham script and disseminating the results of the UK-Ireland collaborative project OG(H)AM (https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/) by broadening its social and cultural reach and impact.
The OG(H)AM project is funded by a Research Ireland and UK Arts and Humanities Research Council grant under the ‘UK–Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Research’ scheme (UK Grant number AH/W001985/1, Irish Grant number IRC/W001985/1). The project is digitally documenting all c. 640 examples of ogham writing in all media, from its origin (probably in the 4th century) until the mid-19th century, from Ireland, Britain and Man…
LEIGHEAS (the Irish word for ‘remedy’ or ‘the art of healing’) is a 4-year digital humanities project funded by a Consolidator Laureate Award from Research Ireland. Its central aim is to illuminate the social, pedagogical and manuscript context for the production and circulation of medical texts throughout the medieval Gaelic world…
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…
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…
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…