…Elizabeth Boyle, Deborah Hayden, Chantal Kobel, Mairéad Finnegan, myself, etc. Niamh was also chair of the first Young Academy Ireland ( https://t.co/vIZvJf0dwI). Early 2025, Niamh became a joint staff member of @EarlyIrishMU & @MaynoothHist at @MaynoothUni. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

The two have so far produced 47 episodes that have been downloaded 130.000+ times by listeners in 110 countries. For his work, Tiago was awarded the 2025 Maynooth Postgraduate Research Community Impact Award. Many members of the Dept. of Early Irish have been guests, e.g.,… 🔖

…Medieval Irish History podcast in 2023 https://t.co/dDR5VmbsIX. The podcast covers all aspects of the history and culture of medieval Ireland & illustrates the huge international reach of its heritage. Tiago Veloso Silva, PhD researcher in Niamh’s project, is the producer. 👩‍💻

🌲2️⃣3️⃣🎁 Medieval Irish History Podcast The staff at @EarlyIrishMU @MaynoothUni 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 @Researchirel Pathway Grant, she started the… 📖

…successful with an infrastructure grant for a hyperspectral camera. Something else to look forward to: Chantal is currently editing the proceedings of the 1st conference dedicated to obscurity in medieval Celtic literature (held 2019). 🌐: https://t.co/pC5ffAJWbT 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

…grant for SCRÍBHINN: Scribal Culture in Medieval Irish Schools of Law & Medicine’, to explore medieval Ir. writing practices & scribal training through the lens of vernacular Irish medical & legal manuscripts. Together with Prof Karen Desmond (@MusicMaynooth), Chantal was… 🔖

…codicology for @EarlyIrishMU @MaynoothUni since 2015. For the conference on the RIA manuscript 23 N 10 (‘Book of Ballycummin’), Chantal came up with a new assessment of the order of folios, which had been mis-bound in the past. In 2025, she was awarded a Maynooth seed fund… 👩‍💻

🌲2️⃣2️⃣🎁 Irish manuscript culture Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval & early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @SCSLibrary for 7 years, she's been teaching Irish palaeography &… 📖

…in the Irish Times by Frank McNally @FrankmcnallyIT ( https://t.co/d5EfMt01kM). One other project deliverable of OPal+ is still in the works: ‘The Great Book of Ogham’, a collaboration with the award-winning illustrator Chris Judge, will introduce ogam to young readers. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

Prof Deborah Hayden commissioned an artwork from the Irish-Scottish graffiti artist/calligrapher Thomas Keyes for the Royal Irish Academy. It combines MS ogam in the Book of Ballymote with motifs from medieval Irish literature & graffiti art. Its launch merited a report… 🔖

…in the appropriately called ‘Ogham Palaeography+’ project. Together with Katherine, Dr Nora White was working on a digital platform & theoretical framework for the description of ogam palaeography, & she was able to digitise further ogams for the Ogham in 3D website. 👩‍💻

🌲2️⃣1️⃣🎁 OPal+ As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured @ahrcpress follow-on funding for the neglected study of ogam palaeography. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central role… 📖

…& has added to the corpus and the understanding of the tradition. Corinna organised 2 conferences on the topic in Maynooth (2022, 2025). The 1st conference proceedings appeared recently ( https://t.co/5OfOE1AAQh), & she is currently working on those of the 2nd conference. 🕯️🕯️🕯️

…Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship of the ERC @ERC_Research to come to @MaynoothUni to do research with me on Cisalpine Celtic literacy. In numerous fieldtrips to Italy & Switzerland, Corinna has meticulously expanded the multimodal documentation of the objects & the texts,… 🔖

Corinna has been collaborating with me on Cisalpine Celtic (Lepontic & Cisalpine Gaulish) since my time in Vienna. She is the main person to keep the online resource Lexicon Leponticum ( https://t.co/X9jNMUyXqi), created by me in 2010, alive & online. In 2023, she received a… 👩‍💻

🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁 Cisalpine Celtic literacy Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., https://t.co/F8lEWz5St3). She investigated the origin of the runes & contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum ( https://t.co/cECYNKdfmO). 📖

📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley @EarlyIrishMU was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄 https://t.co/FfN6OkFLcf

… https://t.co/bA312uQ05K), which will allow us to quantify variation between Early Irish texts. I am regularly posting updates about the project as DiⒶgnostic News items on Bluesky. In 2023, I received a Commendation for Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year. 🕯️🕯️🕯️

…is made up of the postdocs Dr Truc Ha Nguyen, Dr Adrian Doyle & Dr Francesco Felici, the PhD researcher Paul Le Meur-Bouthemy, & currently the intern Ruben Lester. An important resource is the variational tagging in the annotated database CorPH (Corpus PalaeoHibernicum… 🔖

Its primary objective is to answer the century-old vexed question if Old Irish had dialects or if it was a uniform language (and why). For this, we are developing methodologies to investigate how to detect regional variation in a closed, historical corpus. The project team… 👨‍💻