Chantal Kobel

Still 2 weeks to apply for this position! It’s to provide cover for me while I work on a research project, so I have lots of teaching materials I'm happy to share & the department can offer some extra funding for attending conferences, etc. Come work with us in @ceilteachomn.bsky.social next year!

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies building in Dublin, Ireland

Scoláireacht bliana le fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh
1 Year scholarship available in SCS
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Sonraí / Details:
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Two new positions with the #ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow. This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest extant version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, a renowned Irish epic.

Happening one week from today! Please join Patrick Wadden, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, John McCafferty, Catherine McKenna, me, and bunch of your best Celticists friends for the virtual book launch of An Eoraip. Register at uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine An scéal neamhghnách faoin tslí ar tharla sleachta Gaeilge a bheith scríofa ar chnámha beithígh

An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine

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A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

Looking forward to speaking at this event in a few weeks time!

Hugely looking forward to hosting this one-day symposium on 'Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World' as part of the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie - join us @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social on Thursday 12th March!

Dublinia Spring Lecture Series 2026 From the Medieval period right up to the modern era, explore Ireland’s fascinating relationship with magic, belief and the sacred.

Free lunchtime lecture! I’ll be giving a talk at the Dublinia Museum next week on

‘𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜: 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’

Thursday 5th March, 1pm

Still a few tickets left on Eventbrite – all welcome!

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Ar 5 Márta beidh mé in @ria.ie ag caint ar chnámha (!) ón 19ú céad, agus go háirithe ar an gcnámh seo thíos atá anois i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh👇

Research-Creation in the early Middle Ages: the example of Hibernicus Exul : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne <p> The pivotal role played by Irish scholars in preserving and transmitting ancient learning during the early Middle Ages is well known even beyond the academy, thanks to popularising works such as ‘How the Irish Saved Civilization’. Yet a great deal of work remains to be done on individual Irish figures working in continental Europe during the eighth to tenth centuries in order to establish more rigorously the Irish contribution. The shadowy figure known as ‘Hibernicus Exul’ (‘the Irish exile’) provides an ideal test-case for this work: the author of thirty-eight Latin poems, on scholarly, political, and comic topics, his works appear in a single manuscript, Vatican Reg. Lat. 2078. This is an important and influential poetic anthology from the heart of the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of intense cultural and intellectual activity in eight- and ninth-century Europe during which the literature and learning of the ancient Graeco-Roman world was rediscovered and concerted efforts were made to standardise and widen access to educational systems, with significant consequences for the intellectual history of western Europe. The PhD student recruited will write the first monograph-length study of Hibernicus Exul, setting his work in the context of the manuscript, addressing the controversial question of his possible identification with the better- known Carolingian scholar Dúngal, and demonstrate how the poet exemplifies the nature of medieval Irish literature, which simultaneously aims to educate and to entertain, and can in many ways be seen as a predecessor of today’s Research-Creation. </p> <p> <strong>Please note below additional requirements when submitting your Expressions of Interest:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Additional requirements: <ul> <li> <strong>Statement of research interest [max. 1000 words]</strong> </li> <li> <strong>MA in a related field, or equivalent, to be completed by the programme start date.</strong> </li> <li> <strong>Evidence of at least six semesters of Latin, or equivalent, with grades of B+ or higher, or equivalent</strong> </li> </ul> </li> </ul>

#MEDIEVAL #LATIN #PHD OPPORTUNITY:
Co-supervised by myself and Cillian O'Hogan, University of Toronto

Project start: September 2027, with time in #Toronto, France, & @unimelb.edu.au. #Scholarship includes tuition fees, living allowance, health insurance, and relocation support.

Get in touch!

For the week that’s in it: the LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month for February 2026 is Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS Adv. 72.1.13, containing an Irish translation of Bernard of Gordon’s chapter on lovesickness:

leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙙𝙤𝙢𝙣𝙖́𝙣 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙙𝙤𝙢 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣
John Carey

More Info: bit.ly/3OyLT6A

#Eschatology #Translation #Irish #Apocrypha #Bible #Christianity

The spring Library newsletter is live! Take a look to discover more about our current exhibition, upcoming events, blogs, podcasts, and more!
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Nice to see some very cool images from my ‘Classicizing the Gaelic’ chapter on the visuality of Irish manuscripts included in this Irish Times write-up of the book Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity 👇

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!

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1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth
Two remarkable Irish-language manuscripts (18th & 19th c.).
Scribes include Pól Ó Longáin & Seán Ó Laochadh.
Dialogues, Ogham lore, heroic saga, poetry & genealogies.

🙏Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
@dias-isos.bsky.social

#DIASdiscovers

In our new blog post, Typographia, see how words literally took shape and communicated meaning through nearly 500-year-old books in the Library.


Read it on: mulibrarytreasures.wordpress.com

Hagiography with Dr Sarah Waidler

Have you listened to The Medieval Irish History Podcast's latest episode yet?

In this episode, Dr Niamh Wycherley interviews Dr Sarah Waidler (NYU), a specialist on medieval Irish hagiographies and the various texts that can broadly be understood within the spectrum of holy writings.

academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15745

PhD scholarship in History or Geography at Dublin City University - applicants with an interest in medieval Ireland are particularly encouraged to apply.

#MedievalSky

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Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done!
#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge

Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture

tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd

Drawing of a man in profile smoking a long pipe in the margins of a medieval manuscript

Here's a scribe who drew what he would rather be doing than working - smoking a pipe. In the @kingsinns.bsky.social we hold numerous Irish Manuscripts that discuss the history of Ireland, Greek Myths and Christianity

www.isos.dias.ie/collection/k...

View it online with @dias-isos.bsky.social

Studia Celtica 2025 has arrived! - a substantial issue, produced jointly by the Ganolfan and @uniwalespress.bsky.social @collen105.bsky.social. Further information is given here: www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...

Grants Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer (treasurer@oxbibsoc.org.uk) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…

Grants!

We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections.

Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026.

Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

MS NKS 261 b 4° (Det Kongelige Bibliotek)

Is sliocht dlí atá i gceist anseo ó lámhscríbhinn i gCóbanhávan www.isos.dias.ie/RLD/RLD_NKS_...

Examples of Chantal Kobel’s penmanship from the workshop with Thomas Keyes March 2024.

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Irish manuscript culture

Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and…
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Medieval Irish History Podcast

The staff in the @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of Early Irish have a lot of experience when it comes to the public dissemination of their research, but none more so than Dr Niamh Wycherley. As part of her @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant, she started…
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DIAS building, Dublin

2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh
2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies
Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026
Deadline: 5 January 2026
www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...
@dias.ie