Past events
- 04December2025Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-century Petitions to the Irish Parliament
- 27November2025Three Women, Three Pregnancies, Three Punishments
- 07November2025*Widame (Proto-Celtic ‘we found out’) is a conference at Maynooth University exploring upcoming themes in postgraduate research in Celtic Studies, past and present. We would like to invite Master’s and PhD researchers to submit an abstract (c. 200 words) and short biography to widame.maynooth@gmail.com for a 15-20 minute presentation covering any research topic of their...
- 23October2025The Welsh Legendary Triads: Trioedd Ynys Prydain
- 02October2025On 2–3 October 2025, the Royal Irish Academy, in collaboration with Maynooth University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, will host a two-day conference dedicated to exploring one of Ireland’s most important medieval manuscripts, the Book of Lecan.
- 05June2025‘Medical Words/Medical Worlds’ is a workshop to be held in Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge on 5-6 June 2025, co-hosted by the projects LEIGHEAS: Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World (Maynooth University) and eDIL: A Dictionary of the Irish Language (University of Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast). Speakers will explore medieval...
- 30May2025SCRÍBHINN Job advert (PDF) The Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University is pleased to invite applications for a research assistant position in the project SCRÍBHINN: Scribal Culture in Medieval Irish Schools of Law and Medicine (2025-2026), led by Dr Chantal Kobel. The central aim of SCRÍBHINN is to advance our understanding of the nature...
- 26May2025This three-day, in-person workshop introduces several digital approaches to the study of epigraphy—reading and publishing historical texts inscribed on stone or other durable materials, and recording the objects on which they are inscribed. We will discuss and have the opportunity to practice two advanced imaging techniques: photogrammetry and reflectance transformation imaging, both of which use...
- 01May2025Maynooth Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminar by Dr Patrick Wadden (Belmont Abbey College)
- 03April2025Maynooth Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminar by Dr Colin Ireland (UCD/Arcadia University)