Happy New Year! New episode out now. Dr Sparky Booker @tcddublin shares some wonderful, instructive, insights into how we can explore gender, class, ethnicity & community through an exam of individual legal cases in a fascinating period of Irish history. https://t.co/6v0ffsxACb
Presenting recent graduate of @MaynoothHist & winner of @NUIMerrionSq Mansion House prize, Emily Little! Women exercising influence/power were not rare in history — we chat about two such women in the 16th century, Gráinne Ní Mháille & Joan Fitzgerald. https://t.co/NVfP9sQhIC
Did 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. @MaynoothUni
https://t.co/DY6f2Bkj5o
Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh! Our ethereal expert @HMacAuliffe@MaynoothUni guides us through the darkness of #samhain, a time for feasting, mischief & terror in Irish literature, when the veil between worlds is thin, & ghastly ghouls abound! #Halloween https://t.co/vM9yuj22Ex
Last ep. of season 2 out now! We chat to the erudite @FarrellPereira re the Penitentials, some of the earliest surviving texts from the so-called 'Insular' world. Thanks @EarlyIrishMU@IrishResearch & guests & listeners! Back in Sept, have a lovely summer.
https://t.co/MBzYfEIFen
Nearing the end of season 2 & we have 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 @MaynoothUni@EarlyIrishMU@IrishResearch
https://t.co/cWQq1Haofp
The much anticipated, incredible, 'Words on the Wave' exhibition opens in @NMIreland today! FREE TO ALL. Can't make it? Listen to Matt Seaver & Dr Diarmuid Ó Riain on what makes it so special & about Irish connections w/Switzerland going back 1,400 years. https://t.co/I2fWydkXYi
New ep w/Royal Irish Academy Librarian Barbara McCormack about @RIAdawson's collection incl. many of Ireland's oldest manuscripts e.g. the Cathach, the Stowe Missal, Leabhar Breac & The Book of the Dun Cow. @Library_RIA is FREE & runs brill public events.
https://t.co/mm3h1wgB8b
ICYMI! A chatty overview/intro to Irish castles from the brilliant historian/archaeologist Dr Victoria McAlister @TowsonU. Bar from being cool to look at/explore we discuss how new technology can reveal there is much more to castles than meets the eye.
https://t.co/UR1M3XWQk2
Why Sitric Silkenbeard is the greatest Dubliner of all time. He 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, writes @NiamhWycherley@MaynoothUni@Researchirel https://t.co/pXMNuwMcmq
Have you ever wondered how a medieval scholar applied for grants (of horses)? This week Dr @CGSchweizer gives all the deets about the political and academic life of Dicuil and other Irish scholars at the Carolingian courts in our podcast!
https://t.co/TVHxHcVRhU
In this week's episode we are very grateful to Dr Janel Fontaine for her patience w/the technical difficulties we experienced & for chatting with us about how best to interpret the huge amount of evidence for slavery in medieval Ireland.
https://t.co/AfraKGSeHb
☘️New ep: Dr Elizabeth Dawson (Carlow College) expertly guides us through the stories celebrating St Patrick. Come for the snakes/shamrocks/parades but stay for the articulation of centuries old literary/historical/community development! #StPatricksDay2025 https://t.co/pyCx73M8mf
This week we bring you our very own @TiagoOVSilva@EarlyIrishMU! On ‘soft power’, what is patronage, the #nuntastic Agnes, ‘An Caillech Mór’ (d.1196), St Mary’s monastery, Clonard, & the study of medieval Ireland. Tiago's work is funded by @Researchirel https://t.co/kbQuZV9irJ
Finally going to be interviewing @TiagoOVSilva for the podcast! On the role of medieval women as political & ecclesiastical patrons, incl. Agnes of Clonard (d.1196), Sárnat of Kildare (fl. 7th century), & reflections on the study of medieval Irish history. Send us your questions!
Job alert!! Come work with us in @EarlyIrishMU! 18 month postdoctoral researcher position on our @Researchirel Pathway project 'Power and patronage in medieval Ireland: Clonard from the sixth to twelfth centuries'. https://t.co/ya8BDcnkho