Tionól 2020: Due to the uncertainty caused by the outbreak of Covid19, the restrictions attached to international travel and the ongoing requirement for social distancing, arrangements for the forthcoming Tionól are of necessity provisional and will be kept under review. If there is a likelihood that it will proceed in November, a paper call will issue later in the summer.
To protect the welfare of students, scholars and staff at DIAS and in the public interest, DIAS is closed to non-DIAS personnel until further notice. This includes closure of the libraries at the School of Celtic Studies and at the School of Theoretical Physics. All public events scheduled until the end of April have been postponed. This includes open Nights at DIAS Dunsink Observatory.
DIAS staff, students and scholars are still contactable by email and by phone. If you are making a delivery or conducting a service please adhere to the on site policies in terms of signing in and out.
The School of Celtic Studies is dedicated to the study of Irish and the other Celtic languages, both written and spoken, throughout their history, as well as related areas of cultural, social and legal history. Employing both academic staff and post-doctoral scholars, we publish books and other online resources, issue our journal Celtica, and host events such as our annual conference, Tionól.
We also host important online resources in our field.
Monasticon Hibernicum, a database of early Christian ecclesiastical settlements in
Ireland, produced by Ailbhe MacShamhráin with Nora White and Aidan Breen at Maynooth University
The Bardic Poetry Database, by Dr Katharine Simms of the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin.
We are delighted to announce the publication of the Hughes Lecture 2019: Jacopo Bisagni, From the Atoms to the Cosmos: the Irish Tradition of the Divisions of Time in the Early Middle Ages. We are pleased to make it available to download at asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications/. @NUIGClassicsRetweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
Delighted to announce this year's Johann-Kaspar-Zeuss-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies:
Dr. Daniel J Watson for "Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierarchy & Inspiration"
Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Boyle @MaynoothUni
Many congratulations! Retweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
Today's new addition to ISOS, TCD, H.2.15b, MS 1317, Glossaries and Miscellanea, includes, A copy of the historical and topographical work called the Dinnseanchus, A short anecdote of Adamnan, 8th Abbot of Iona, A glossary of the artificial language called Ogham... Retweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
Today's addition on ISOS, from TCD, H.5.15, MS 1387, Brehon Law Tracts, comes from one of the law-schools kept by the Mac Egans. You can find Rules as to letting land, trespasses of cattle, Property of women...to the right of a brehon to consider his judgment; and of his fee.... Retweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
Only 4 of the 40 marginalia are noted in Gwynn & Abbott's catalogue (1921). All are included in full in my analytic catalogue in the forthcoming Celtica 2020, published later this year #BrehonLawMSS#medievaltwitter#DIASDiscoversRetweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
The margins of Máel Íosa’s book, an early 16th cent. MS, are reserved solely for verses, couplets and citations, of which there are 40, whereas scribal notes and colophons are only ever written within the main text block at the end of a text #medievalmanuscriptsRetweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
👆Here are 2 visually striking quatrains on bride-price written in a zig-zag fashion & surrounded by a decorative frame. 10 hens are given as part of the value of the tochra (dil.ie/41091). It triggered the illustrator to draw a hen at the end & serves as a visual aid. Retweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
#BrehonlawMSS contain numerous marginal verses & citations, excerpted from longer poems & texts from the Old, Middle & Early Modern Irish periods. In some cases, they form part of the planned layout of the MS, as in Máel Íosa's book (TCD MS 1337/2-4/1-87) #DIASDiscoversRetweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
It's coffee break time and our @natlibscotmaps colleagues have made a lovely online jigsaw from 'Edenburgum, Scotiae Metropolis' (a plan of Edinburgh from c.1582). See if you can beat this tweeter's time of 6.20 > jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=1…Retweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
The second #palaeographynugget is the abbreviation s with a suspension stroke above it, i.e. Latin sed 'but'. This is used for the Ir. conjunction acht 'but' by itself & also for the syllabe -acht and simply -cht in the middle of a word, as in the example no fuachtnaiged here! Retweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
Today is a 2-for-1 #palaeographynugget! First, the Latin uel-compendium, which can stand for uel, the Ir. conj. nó or the preverbal particle no, depending on the context. Here, it is the particle no!
.i. no fuachtnaiged fria cholaind 'he used to injure his flesh'
LB p. 238(b) Retweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
Sometimes you're happily transcribing an Early Irish text when you're suddenly met with a Latin abbr. for a Latin phrase in the middle of the sentence! Here's a pretty simple ex. that crops up in the Leabhar Breac, p. 238(d)b: a quo.
#palaeographynuggets#manuscriptsRetweeted by
DIAS_SCS Library
School of Celtic Studies
Tionól 2020: Due to the uncertainty caused by the outbreak of Covid19, the restrictions attached to international travel and the ongoing requirement for social distancing, arrangements for the forthcoming Tionól are of necessity provisional and will be kept under review. If there is a likelihood that it will proceed in November, a paper call will issue later in the summer.
To protect the welfare of students, scholars and staff at DIAS and in the public interest, DIAS is closed to non-DIAS personnel until further notice. This includes closure of the libraries at the School of Celtic Studies and at the School of Theoretical Physics. All public events scheduled until the end of April have been postponed. This includes open Nights at DIAS Dunsink Observatory.
DIAS staff, students and scholars are still contactable by email and by phone. If you are making a delivery or conducting a service please adhere to the on site policies in terms of signing in and out.
The School of Celtic Studies is dedicated to the study of Irish and the other Celtic languages, both written and spoken, throughout their history, as well as related areas of cultural, social and legal history. Employing both academic staff and post-doctoral scholars, we publish books and other online resources, issue our journal Celtica, and host events such as our annual conference, Tionól.
Major projects of the School include:
We also host important online resources in our field.
Ireland, produced by Ailbhe MacShamhráin with Nora White and Aidan Breen at Maynooth University
School of Celtic Studies
We are delighted to announce the publication of the Hughes Lecture 2019: Jacopo Bisagni, From the Atoms to the Cosmos: the Irish Tradition of the Divisions of Time in the Early Middle Ages. We are pleased to make it available to download at asnc.cam.ac.uk/publications/. @NUIGClassics Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Delighted to announce this year's Johann-Kaspar-Zeuss-Prize for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies: Dr. Daniel J Watson for "Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierarchy & Inspiration" Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Boyle @MaynoothUni Many congratulations! Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
We know quite a few people who will be delighted with this news 👏 twitter.com/Library_RIA/st…
The School of Celtic Studies is able to offer a scholarship to be taken up in October 2020. #CelticStudies #LoveIrishresearch #Scholarships #DIASdiscovers #DIASscholars Application details here: dias.ie/2020/07/22/vac…
Today's new addition to ISOS, TCD, H.2.15b, MS 1317, Glossaries and Miscellanea, includes, A copy of the historical and topographical work called the Dinnseanchus, A short anecdote of Adamnan, 8th Abbot of Iona, A glossary of the artificial language called Ogham... Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Today's addition on ISOS, from TCD, H.5.15, MS 1387, Brehon Law Tracts, comes from one of the law-schools kept by the Mac Egans. You can find Rules as to letting land, trespasses of cattle, Property of women...to the right of a brehon to consider his judgment; and of his fee.... Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
For more on the significance of marginal verses in medieval Irish manuscripts, you can listen to the excellent statutory lecture by Prof. Liam Breatnach @DIAS_Dublin , available online: youtube.com/watch?v=1SXlSf… #DIASDiscovers Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Only 4 of the 40 marginalia are noted in Gwynn & Abbott's catalogue (1921). All are included in full in my analytic catalogue in the forthcoming Celtica 2020, published later this year #BrehonLawMSS #medievaltwitter #DIASDiscovers Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
The margins of Máel Íosa’s book, an early 16th cent. MS, are reserved solely for verses, couplets and citations, of which there are 40, whereas scribal notes and colophons are only ever written within the main text block at the end of a text #medievalmanuscripts Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
👆Here are 2 visually striking quatrains on bride-price written in a zig-zag fashion & surrounded by a decorative frame. 10 hens are given as part of the value of the tochra (dil.ie/41091). It triggered the illustrator to draw a hen at the end & serves as a visual aid. Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
#BrehonlawMSS contain numerous marginal verses & citations, excerpted from longer poems & texts from the Old, Middle & Early Modern Irish periods. In some cases, they form part of the planned layout of the MS, as in Máel Íosa's book (TCD MS 1337/2-4/1-87) #DIASDiscovers Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
It's coffee break time and our @natlibscotmaps colleagues have made a lovely online jigsaw from 'Edenburgum, Scotiae Metropolis' (a plan of Edinburgh from c.1582). See if you can beat this tweeter's time of 6.20 > jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=1… Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
The second #palaeographynugget is the abbreviation s with a suspension stroke above it, i.e. Latin sed 'but'. This is used for the Ir. conjunction acht 'but' by itself & also for the syllabe -acht and simply -cht in the middle of a word, as in the example no fuachtnaiged here! Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Today is a 2-for-1 #palaeographynugget! First, the Latin uel-compendium, which can stand for uel, the Ir. conj. nó or the preverbal particle no, depending on the context. Here, it is the particle no! .i. no fuachtnaiged fria cholaind 'he used to injure his flesh' LB p. 238(b) Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Sometimes you're happily transcribing an Early Irish text when you're suddenly met with a Latin abbr. for a Latin phrase in the middle of the sentence! Here's a pretty simple ex. that crops up in the Leabhar Breac, p. 238(d)b: a quo. #palaeographynuggets #manuscripts Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
More fantastic #medievalmanuscripts tweets from @ChantalKobel Follow Chantal for updates on her intricate work #celticstudies twitter.com/ChantalKobel/s…