🔔 Up next, a collaboration between CAMPS and the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM):
"Historical and Contemporary Multilingualism in Ireland"
Lectures from Chiara Corongiu, Jasmim Drigo, and Cassie Smith-Christmas.
🗓️13/3/2026
🕑12pm
📍THB-G010
Lunch provided and all welcome!
🚨Another brilliant CAMPS lecture incoming:
Join us this Friday as Marilena Carabellese (UoG) will give a paper entitled:
'Ars Inussitata: the case of the XI epitome of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus'
🗓️ Friday 6th March
⏰ 12pm
📍 THB-G010
As ever, lunch will be provided and all are welcome!
Delighted to share the latest edition of Western Classics, which includes research updates and articles from the Galway Classics community:
doi.org/10.13025/30223
@uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social #AncientClassics #medieval
🚨 Announcing our next CAMPS Lecture!
Luke McDermott will present 'Divine Words and Royal Narratives: Viewing Neo-Assyrian King Esarhaddon's Reign Through the Prism of Prophecy'
🗓 Friday, 27th February
🕐 12pm
📍 THB-G010, Hardiman Building
Lunch will be provided and everyone is welcome!
Edward Herring has a new article on Magna Graecia's red-figure pottery, which appears in the latest issue of Ancient History magazine. @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social @campsgalway.bsky.social
#AncientHistory #Archaeology
🔔 Announcing our next CAMPS Lecture!
Come along this Friday as Alexander Cupples (TCD) will treat us to a lecture entitled 'The Eucharistic Liturgy in the Antiphonary of Bangor.'
🗓️ Friday, 30th January
🕒 12:00
📍 TBHG-010, Hardiman Building
Lunch provided afterwards. Everyone is very welcome!
🔔 Come along to our next CAMPS Lab!
Dr Eleanor Giraud (@eleanorgiraud.bsky.social) from University of Limerick will be treating us to a lecture entitled:
'Making Dominican Chant: Choices and Changes.'
🗓️ Friday 23rd January
⏰ 12pm
📍THB-G010, Hardiman Building
Lunch will be provided afterwards!
🔔 Come along to our next CAMPS Lab!
Dr Eleanor Giraud (@eleanorgiraud.bsky.social) from University of Limerick will be treating us to a lecture entitled:
'Making Dominican Chant: Choices and Changes.'
🗓️ Friday 23rd January
⏰ 12pm
📍THB-G010, Hardiman Building
Lunch will be provided afterwards!
🚨UPDATE!
See below our new, even fuller schedule for CAMPS lectures this semester!
All lectures will begin at 12pm on their respective Fridays.
Specific details will be circulated before each lecture.
Lunch will be provided afterwards, and everyone is very welcome!
🔔What a great semester we have in store for you all!
Over the course of six exciting events, we will be treated to a diverse and fascinating array of lectures.
Check out our Spring 2026 schedule!
🗓️Fridays at 12pm
🍴Lunch will be provided afterwards
Everyone welcome!
🚨 CAMPS 2026 is getting off to a strong start!
Dr Michael Meere, Assoc. Professor of French and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University presents '"The prologue presentit him selff…" : William Drummond and Theatrical Performances in Bourges, 1607’.
🗓 16 January
🕐 12pm
📍 The Bridge Room
Come along!
Lovely to see my review of Brian Lacey's Cenél nEógain and the Donegal Kingdoms, AD800-1200 (Four Courts Press) make The Irish Times last book review for 2025. @campsgalway.bsky.social
epaper.irishtimes.com/titles/irish...
On January 16th, Professor Michael Clarke will present on 'The History of the Irish Book: The Handwritten Book in Ireland' at an Éigse Cholm Cille event on Columban Landscapes and Irish Manuscripts #celticstudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
🐝 Come along tomorrow for what promises to be an illuminating afternoon!
Dr Chris Doyle (@gollygee2004.bsky.social) will be treating us to a lecture on "Beekeeping and the medieval Irish community in the Bechbretha."
Afterwards, there will be the opportunity for discussion, and, of course, lunch!
At Tionól 2025, Michael Clarke will speak on Togail Troí, Jasmim Drigo on Priscian glosses, and Conor McDonough on early medieval Pauline exegesis. #CelticStudies #medievalsky @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social
Poster announcing CAMPS lecture. Text reads: "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the medieval Irish community in the Bechbretha" by Chris Doyle. 21st November 2025, 12pm. Bridge Room, Hardiman Building. Lunch to follow and all welcome. Image displays three hand-drawn beehives surrounded by a swarm of bees. Right side of poster is patterned with an orange honeycomb of hexagons, with three images of bees.
🚨 Announcing our second CAMPS event of the semester!
Dr Chris Doyle will deliver a lecture entitled "Following the Swarm: Beekeeping and the Medieval Irish Community in the Bechbretha"
Come along for a fascinating Friday afternoon!
🗓️21st Nov
🕒12pm
📍Bridge Room, Hardiman Building
Lunch to follow.
Congratulations to Diarmuid on this fantastic success!👏👏
Dr Johnson will be delivering our first CAMPS Galway lecture of the semester at 1pm on the 12th November in the Bridge Room.
Make sure to come along for what promises to be a stimulating event!
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Poster for Lecture by Dr Diarmuid Johnson. Lecture Entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension." 12th November. 1pm Bridge Room, Hardiman Research Building Lunch to follow and all welcome!
🔔🔔 Our first CAMPS event of the semester!
Dr Diarmuid Johnson will deliver a talk entitled "Why the Cambro-Normans Invaded Ireland: The Novel as a Vehicule of Comprehension."
Dr Johnson's latest novel, An Cláirseoir, has recently been awarded the prestigious Oireachtas Prize.
🗓️ 12th Nov
🕐 1pm
The Societas Celtologica Europaea is now on Bluesky!
➡️ Our goal is to support the scholarly study of Celtic languages, literatures, and cultures in research and teaching and to promote cooperation among Celtic scholars.
👋 Follow us for updates on our student prizes, conferences & more!
2. Many thanks to Chiara Corongiu and Luke McDermott @galwayclassics.bsky.social for taking over from @cgschweizer.bsky.social (yours truly) as Communications Officers. It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve in this role for the last two years and to bring CAMPS to Bluesky early on. Bye!👋🙋🏼♂️
We are excited to announce some changes to the CAMPS committee:
1. @jasmimdrigo.bsky.social is joining Brenda Luies and sharing the position of Research Events Coordinator. Many thanks to both, and to @darcyireland.bsky.social for his fantastic work last year!
Der aktualisierte Call for Papers für unser Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter ist jetzt da! Die Frist für Bewerbungen endet am 30.11.2025. Bitte weitersagen oder selbst bewerben! #medievalsky #mediävistik #skystorians
CFP: Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158084
Innsbruck, 19.03.2026-20.03.2026, Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.11.2025
On Saturday, September 27, Jacopo Bisagni will give a live demonstration and public talk on weapons and combat in the Late Middle Ages. Tickets available through eventbrite: tinyurl.com/mtex6mk9 @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
It was a tremendous honour to give a keynote on The Legacy of the Irish Scholar Dicuil at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies in Bonn last Wednesday. I can’t thank @elenaparina.bsky.social and her team enough for the invitation, welcome, and the perfect organisation of the conference!
The final plenary on The Last Voices of a Pre-Modern Tradition was given by Galway Celtic Studies alumnus Diarmuid Johnson, now a successful writer and musician.
(7/7)
Recent @galwayclassics.bsky.social PhD alumna Francesca Guido presented her work in the ERC project GlossIT as part of the team of @bernhardbaver.bsky.social
(6/7)
@jasmimdrigo.bsky.social, also a current @researchireland.ie GOI Postdoctoral Fellow @galwayclassics.bsky.social, like Christian working with @padraicmoran.bsky.social, spoke on Latin Borrowings into Old Irish: Religious and Grammatical Terms
(5/7)
Mark David L. Gibbard, who holds an MA in Old and Middle Irish from Galway and now pursues a PhD at the CMS Toronto, talked about Euhemerism and History in Medieval Irish Classicsl Adaptations (4/7)
