Past events
- 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)
- 27February2025Maynooth Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminar by Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova (School of Celtic Studies, DIAS)
- 10February2025
Dr Bernhard Bauer (University of Graz) You are invited to a workshop covering automatic manuscript transcription methods and digital editing of medieval sources. The workshop will include brief introductions, hands-on tutorials, and a Q&A session. The topics to be discussed include: There will be a break with refreshments provided, and participants are welcome to bring...