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Darcy Ireland
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BS Geography (@UOregon '11). MA Theology (@ProvidenceCol '13). MA Celtic (@UCC '14). MA History (PC '18). PhD Classics/Hardiman Scholar (@UniofGalway '27). https://tinyurl.com/NUI-Galway-Profile
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Another two sermons of St Augustine discovered: on the Witch of Endor
Another two sermons of St Augustine discovered: on the Witch of Endor
Excellent news from the University of Würzburg, where a researcher has discovered two unknown sermons by St Augustine in a Latin manuscript in Poland!   The reporting (by Martin Brandstätter) is unusually...
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June 16, 2026 at 3:15 AM
After a week working at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, on my way to Egypt, but first, Casablanca, my first time in Africa! 🤩🇩🇪✈️🇲🇦✈️🇪🇬
June 5, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Just had a paper accepted for a conference in Egypt this summer! 🤩🇪🇬
April 28, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I’m honoured to be one of this year’s recipients to help subsidize my upcoming trip to examine multiple manuscripts at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich! 🤩📜
🚨AMARC GRANTS: upcoming deadline🚨

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📅Deadline: 1 November

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AMARC awards small grants in support of initiatives that are in line with our objective of promoting the accessibility, preservation and study of manuscripts and archives of all periods. AMARC invi…
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April 17, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Harley MS 495 or Cotton MS Claudius B.II 🤩📜
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March 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌

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December 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Concluding Session 1715, we have Jack Roskilly (@Sorbonne-Universite.fr) virtually talking about ‘Knowing the Enemy: Bishops and the Circulation of Knowledge on Heresy between Constantinople and the Provinces’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Secondly, in Session 1715, we have Sophio Guliashvili (University of Georgia (Tbilisi 🇬🇪)) describing ‘Two Georgian Monks from Mount Athos and Their Remarkable Intellectual Legacy in Georgia and Byzantium’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
First, in Session 1715 (Programme page 397), we have Márton Rózsa (@UniVie.ac.at) elucidating ‘Spatial Movement and Knowledge Transfer in 11th-Century Hungary’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Concluding Session 1602 is Jianchang Liu (NENU, Changchun) presenting on ‘Between Openness and Closeness: The Spatial Narrative of the ‘Lives of St Ioannikios’ and the Making of Holiness’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Secondly, in Session 1602, we have Aleksandar Savić (University of Belgrade), ‘Even unto Bonds: Spaces of Confinement in South Slavic Hagiography, 13th-16th Centuries’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
First, in Session 1602 (Programme page 368), we have Sirun Grigoryan (@uahes.bsky.social) describing ‘Faith in Darkness: The Prison as a Space of Sanctification in the Life of St Shushanik’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Finally, in wrapping Session 1320, we have Adrian Doyle (@andubhghailleach.bsky.social / @GalwayClassics.bsky.social) talking on the concept of ‘Using Data Science to Explore the Relationships between Glossed Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Secondly, in Session 1320, we have my colleague Chiara Corongiu (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) delivering ‘A Survey of Glossing in Early Medieval Irish Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
First, in Session 1320 (Programme page 321), we have my colleague Pádraic Moran (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social) elucidating ‘The Origins and Uses of Three Greek-Latin Bilingual Biblical Manuscripts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Finally, in Session 1220, we have Joseph Flahive (@RIA.ie) speaking on ‘The Origins of the St Gall Gospels, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 51: A New Investigation’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Secondly, in Session 1220, we have Nicole Volmering (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) elucidating ‘Evidence for an Irish Scriptorium?: A Codicological and Palaeographical Assessment of St. Gallen, MS 904’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
First, in Session 1220, we have Peter Fraundorfer (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) delivering a detailed discussion on ‘A Private Library of One Irish Scholar?: A Collective Handwriting Comparison of a Group of 9th-Century Insular Manuscripts with Reichenau Provenance’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Finally, in Session 1120, we have Immo Warntjes (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) talking on ‘Móengal and Fáelán: Two Irish Schoolmasters and Their Influence at Early Medieval St Gall’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Secondly, in Session 1120, we have Mathew Clear (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) discussing ‘The Assimilation of Unusual Aspects of Irish Time Reckoning into Carolingian Paschal Tables’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
First, in Session 1120 (Programme page 273), we have my own supervisor, Jacopo Bisagni (@GalwayClassics.bsky.social), with Lise Carrel-Bisagni, virtually elucidating ‘Early Irish Learning in Brittany: How Did It Get There?’ (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Concluding Session 1020, we have Jiachun Xu (@TCDDublin.bsky.social) covering ‘The Insular Influence on Carolingian Understandings of Creation’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Secondly, in Session 1020, we have myself elucidating one manuscript of the ‘Irish Reference Bible’ in “‘Today, you will be with me in paradise’: Notes on Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 447 (376) and the Textual Transmission of ‘Pauca problesmata’”. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
First, in Session 1020 (Programme page 252), we have my own colleague Christian Schweizer (@CAMPSGalway.bsky.social) discussing ‘Dicuil’s Grammatical Texts’. (@IMC-Leeds.bsky.social) #IMC2025
July 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The conclusive talk for Session 515 is Janine Su (@theBIAAnkara.bsky.social), ‘Hanutçu, Then and Now: Navigating Place and Memory on a World Stage’. #IMC2025
July 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM