Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth
The Arts and Humanities Institute is Maynooth’s flagship institute for groundbreaking, interdisciplinary research across the arts and humanities. The AHI leads research on one of the University’s five research beacons: Heritage, Language and Culture.
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 23 My News items from the DiⒶgnostic project come to a close for 2025 with a brief overview of other, practical things that happened recently. Stavros Angelis, who was the Senior Technical and Digital Officer at the Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social,... /1
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothBeidh *Widame (Prótai-Cheiltis “fuaireamar amach”), comhdháil scoláirí iarchéime sa Léann Ceilteach, ar siúl 7-8 Samhain 2025 i seomra 1.33 IONTAS in @maynoothuniversity.ie. Sceideal na comhdhála agus clárúchán ar fáil anseo: buff.ly/b3GjydF
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth*Widame (Proto-Celtic “we found out”), a conference of postgraduate scholars in Celtic Studies, will take place 7-8 November 2025 in 1.33 IONTAS in @maynoothuniversity.ie. Conference schedule and registration is available here: buff.ly/b3GjydF
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothA reminder to get there early on Thursdsy lest you be subject to the kinds of brawls over seating that @seroddy.bsky.social details in the book. No pew rents will be applied and there may even be some catering to get you in the door before the event.
- Join Dr Joanna Walsh for her book launch of 'Amateurs!' in conversation with Dr El Putnam, this Thurs, 6th Nov. in MUSSI Seminar Room, Iontas, from 1-3pm. Presentations by Prof. Triona Ni Shiochain (University of Galway) and Diaa Lagan (MU/IADT) chaired by Dr Jeneen Naji. All most welcome!
- New Yorker Lynne Marie Rosenberg is launching brand-new podcast, Different Together, co-created with artist/producer Dafe Pessu Orgubo this Thurs. 23rd Oct at 6:30 pm at IMMA Kilmainham. Support from @muahi.bsky.social, MU RDO & Dept. Media Studies. Details at www.eventbrite.com/e/different-...
- 'The Body Speaks: Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine in Action' takes place as part of MU Research Week, from 1 - 3pm, on Wed. 22 Oct in the AHI Lab 1.37. All most welcome, please register via the website link. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
- The Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledges Research Strength will be presenting a showcase of practice as part of MU's Research Week today Mon. 20 Oct, 2 - 4pm in AHI Seminar Room 1.33, Iontas. Full details via link below. ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/creative-pra...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth#ERC-BROKENSONG at the En plein air conference in Siena! Fascinating conference and especially great panel from the #ERC-SOUNDSPACE panel! @muahi.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothSome fascinating images of the involvement of Belgian colonial subjects in the East Africa campaign of the First World War. These and other images are available to consult here uurl.kbr.be/bib/16923934
- The MU Motherhood Project and the INFEDE research project led by Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow, Dr Jenny Säilävaara, marked National Breastfeeding Week with a symposium exploring contemporary challenges, cutting edge research and innovations in breastfeeding support across Europe.
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothWe are excited to publish the first blog in our Emerging Scholar series 'The Good, The Bad, and The Blemished: Disability Terminology in Medieval Ireland,' by @djbirishhistory.bsky.social who is conducting a @researchireland.ie funded PhD @muahi.bsky.social
- History Department Seminar Series taking place tomorrow, Thursday 9th of October in Rhetoric House from 5-6pm. All most welcome!
- We are delighted to welcome @susiedeedigan.bsky.social to Maynooth tomorrow evening for a research seminar entitled '"Hardly serious”: the detention of republican women in wartime Ireland, 1939-45'. The seminar is open to the public and will take place in Roque Lab, Rhetoric House 17:00-18:00.
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothNew publication out today with @marissawillcox.bsky.social : “Feminist fabulation as refusal: Christine Yahya’s @pink_bits”. We examine how her illustrations reclaim space for bodies often censored www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #mediastudies #algorithm #feminism #fabulation #digitalmedia
- 'Ireland: Land of 1,000 Welcomes?' will take place this Friday, 19th Sept. as part of Culture Night 2025 activities. It will be held in the AHI Seminar Rm 1.33, First floor of Iontas from 5:30 - 7pm. For any further information please contact edmund.chapman@mu.ie
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothRegistration closes 7 Sept. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 Sept. @maynoothuniversity.ie Please share widely. @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth@maynoothuniversity.ie & @kildarelibrary.bsky.social are thrilled to announce @aingealaflannery.bsky.social as Writer-in-Residence. Aingeala is an award-winning writer, journalist, & broadcaster. It is a great pleasure to welcome Aingeala back to Maynooth! @mu-alumni.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothResidency alert! In partnership w/ @artscouncilireland.bsky.social, we're seeking a Writer-in-Residence for 2026. Pls spread the word and consider applying to come and work with us! 🙏 @maynoothuniversity.ie @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynoothwww.con-telegraph.ie/2025/09/12/o... @ndefaoite.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothProf. Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social (Maynooth @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social) spoke about the long life of ogham in manuscripts up to the 19th century, e.g. in @rialibrary.bsky.social. Katherine & I concluded the programme of 1 1/2 hours with highlights from the MANY... /6
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothRegistration is now open for the IHA annual conference @ucdhumanities.bsky.social on 4-5th Sep 2025. Attendance is free - booking essential. Programme & further details 👇 www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothFinally, a huge thank you to Oisin Ralph (@oisinralph) for creating our incredible poster! [8/8]
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothWe are delighted to announce that the Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November 2025 in Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s. [1/8]
- Join Dr Francesca Placanica on Friday, 5th September for the 'Embodied Monologues Symposium: Cathy Berberian & Theatrical Imagination'. Celebrating the work of the American mezzo-soprano known as “the Callas of the Avant-Garde”. For full event details: www.embodiedmonologues.com/symposium/ca...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothI learnt so much from this talk, thanks so much for sharing your expertise, @egeertsphd.bsky.social - you made the @muahi.bsky.social summer school metaphysically and materially fantastic!
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothRecently I spent an intensive two weeks teaching a postgraduate summer school on intersectional humanities at @muahi.bsky.social - it was an amazing couple of weeks. Over the next few days I will share some student reflections on the learning experience #intersectionality #humanities #postgraduate
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothIn this short video, Rachael from @waynestateresearch.bsky.social offers her thoughts on our @muahi.bsky.social summer school. Rachael is completing her PhD in writing at the moment. #intersectionality #europe #postgraduate #maynooth
- The team at @muahi.bsky.social were very grateful to have Minister for Further and Higher Education, James Lawless TD, launch the inaugural Intersectional Humanities Summer School on Monday 14th July, along with Dr Mike O'Malley @maynoothuniversity.ie, and welcome our international participants.
- Maynooth's own Dr Oona Frawley recently published 'This Interim Time' featured in the Times' Best Books for Summer 2025. A well deserved acknowledgment! Get a copy & read.
- I was delighted to see This Interim Time in the @irishtimes.com's 'best books for summer 2025': www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...? Thank you @martindoyle.bsky.social & @jesstraynor.bsky.social 🙏🙏 @lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social
- Join Professor Dónal Hassett for 'The Veteran in the Colonial Archive' conference, as part of the COLVET ERC Project, taking place in the AHI on Wednesday, 25th June 2025. Schedule and details attached. Registration is required and please note, this is a hybrid conference.
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothSeven of the 20 contributors to the volume are present at the current workshop: Sharon Arbuthnot, Deborah Hayden, Joseph Flahive, Sarah Baccianti, David Stifter, Siobhán Barrett, Conan Doyle @conandoyle.bsky.social. /4
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth...edited by Deborah Hayden and Sarah Baccianti @sarahbaccianti.bsky.social, the proceedings of two conferences stretching from 2018-2021. More info at @brepols.net: www.brepolsonline.net/doi/book/10.... /3
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothSiobhán Barrett @siobhbar.bsky.social talked about "Máel Eachlainn Mac an Leagha's Concise and Beneficial Compendium", also part of LEIGHEAS. One of the highpoints of these two days in the evening: the launch "Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions",... /2
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth…from Dept. of Early Irish (@ceilteachomn.bsky.social) at @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social. Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social introduced her @researchireland.ie-funded Laureate project LEIGHEAS. I spoke about the "Lexicography and Etymology of Medieval Irish Medical Terminology. /2
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth⏰️ Final keynote of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social 🗣 Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social (University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social) 📜 Designing Sustainable Digital Editions 💻 Slides: pmoran.ie/maynooth2025.pdf
- A deeply personal research collaboration between Dr Declan Monaghan and PhD Scholar Jennifer Brady sees their project giving a space and a voice for adoptees' stories and a resource to learn about their early lives in a respectful, private way.
- A new project will look at the history of Dublin's Temple Hill and Bird's Nest children's homes through interviews with adoptees and employees, write Dr Declan Monaghan of the @muahi.bsky.social & PhD scholar Jennifer Brady. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo... @adoptionrights.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothSo grateful for this generous and thoughtful review of This Interim Time. 🙏🙏 @irishexaminer.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social @lilliputpress.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothDay 2 of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social. The facilitators @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and the crowd of students. Funded by @researchireland.ie... /1
- Announcing 5 Access Scholarships for the Intersectional Humanities Summer School 2025 running this July 14th- 25th. Scholarships are a full fee waiver, worth €3,000. All the details for each of the scholarship are available on the AHI website. 🗓️ Deadline this Friday, May 30th.
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothThe final preliminary programme for the 2nd Cisalpine Celtic Colloquium in @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social coming Thursday and Friday. More info: lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/Colloqu...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothAssistant Professor/Lecturer Post in any area of psychology in the Department of Psychology, Maynooth University (Fixed Term, 2 years). Sunday, 22nd June 2025. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth2nd Cisalpine Celtic Colloquium 29-30 May 2025 Room 1.33, Iontas Building @muahi.bsky.social Dept.of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social Maynooth University All welcome; zoom available More info: lexlep.univie.ac.at/wiki/Colloqu...
- This will be fantastic - saw them speak at Arts and Minds festival last week 👏🏽👏🏾👏🏼
- Our last event of the term sees our brilliant Writer-in-Residence Catherine Prasifka in conversation with novelist Naoise Dolan this Thursday 8 May. 🤩 @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothProf Elisa Roma (Uni Pavia) will be speaking on "Old Irish in the Pavia Verbs Database" 22 May, 16h DIAS Lecture Room Organisors: DiⒶgnostic Project (@researchireland.ie), @scs-dias.bsky.social, Dept. of Early Irish (@celticstudiesmu.bsky.social), Mind & Matter in Middle Ages @muahi.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothReally pleased that there's an extract of This Interim Time in today's @irishtimes.com weekend magazine: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothOur colleague @oonaf.bsky.social's new book has been published with @lilliputpress.bsky.social and an extract was in this weekend's Irish Times ⬇️😊
- Really pleased that there's an extract of This Interim Time in today's @irishtimes.com weekend magazine: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... @lilliputpress.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothenglish.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social
- MUAHI congratulates Dr Sarah Arnold, from our Department of Media Studies, for winning a Research Ireland New Foundations grant on “Ireland’s missing film heritage: Early animation and the work of Flora Kerrigan”. We can’t wait to hear more about Flora! #media #Ireland #animation #research
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth#CFP: International Conference “Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination” (26 – 27 February 2026, University of Tübingen). Deadline for abstracts soon aproaching: 30 April 2025! Full info here: www.asle.org/calls-for-pa... #envhum #envhist #ecocriticism #ecolit #planthum #ecology #queerstudies
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothSummer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/ #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth👥 Want to get out to more #GLAMA, #GIS, or #DigitalHumanities events in 2025? We keep a list of upcoming conferences here: humap.me/blog-community/eve... Have an event you'd like us to add? Comment, DM, or email us at support@humap.me and we'll add it to the list.
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothPlease order in this collection for your library! It’s out now with Edinburgh UP in the New Materialism series. #methods #feminism #philosophy #affirmation
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothNew Gist: Trans rights are Data rights An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act. (Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin) www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothThis week, the #BROKENSONG team enjoyed a very good time studying the medieval fragments and books preserved in the Worcester Cathedral Library. #medievalbluesky @erc.europa.eu @worcestercathedral.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth"Words on the Wave" in @nmireland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothThe LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2025, brought to you by the excellent @siobhbar.bsky.social, is Dublin, @nlireland.bsky.social MS G8, a ‘pocket-size medical encyclopaedia’ with a Kildare connection: 📜 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothIn the last years of her life, the outstanding Celticist Cecile O'Rahilly was working on her final project, a synthesis of the development of Táin Bó Cúailnge. Although at an advanced stage, it was misplaced for some 40 years but was recently rediscovered! I'll be talking about this & more tomorrow
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothDo most people understand how inflation works? That drops in the inflation rate don't mean drops in prices? 🤔 No. And misunderstanding is significantly associated with vote choice in 2024. Thanks to @verasight.bsky.social and @peterenns.bsky.social for letting me field this question 🙏
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth📢 Call for Abstracts I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in a special issue proposal of Citizenship Studies, tentatively titled “Posthumanism and Citizenship.” Deadline: 25 April 2025 For details: www.posthumanlab.org/cfa-citizens... #posthumanism #citizenship
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothThrilled (& a bit terrified!) that this will be out soon. Grateful to all @lilliputpress.bsky.social, to @brianlangan.bsky.social for all of the support & encouragement, and to @jackflag.bsky.social for the gorgeous cover. 🙏 @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothenglish.bsky.social
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothFor more on Irish medical manuscripts from Kildare, the home of the @researchireland.bsky.social LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social, see also our earlier blog here: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/irish-medica...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth35th Conference of Irish Historians. Hosted by @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of History. Theme 'Inner Lives and Outer Realities'. Call for papers closes 31 March @muahi.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @iaphistorians.bsky.social www.historians.ie/cfp-35th-iri...
- If you have not taken time to explore our research strengths, please do. There is some amazing work happening @muahi.bsky.social
- The website for the new Research Cluster 'Mind and Material in the Middle Ages' @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is now live! Check it out to learn about all the cool Medieval Studies research happening at Maynooth: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothOur brilliant colleague Paul Lynch has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the @unioflimerick.bsky.social. Paul is Distinguished Writing Fellow @maynoothuniversity.ie. Congratulations Paul! @muahi.bsky.social
- We were delighted to host you, @drannaloismckay.bsky.social and we look forward to watching your work come into the world
- ...before a week-long visiting fellowship at @muahi.bsky.social Maynooth University in March, which was SO excellent and another great chance to think about Irish convicts in Bermuda during the Famine
- The AHI are delighted to host the @erc.europa.eu project COLVERT. Today our building is buzzing with conference attendees thinking about colonial power in archives @donalh.bsky.social colvet.eu/tracing-the-... #disability #race #class #gender #sex
- ‘Joining hands in Medical Humanities: Rethinking health, disease and therapy in the 21st century’ will be held this Friday, 28th March in the MU Arts & Humanities Institute. For full details of this hybrid event, check out: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/arts-and-hum... To register email: muahi@mu.ie
- Congratulations to Professor Terence Dooley, Head of the History Department, on his appointment as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, the highest academic distinction in Ireland. This prestigious recognition is a testament to Professor Dooley’s outstanding contributions to historical scholarship👏👏
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothThe John & Pat Hume Doctoral Awards at Maynooth are about to open These prestigious four-year scholarships include: €25,000 annual stipend €2,000 annual research expenses EU tuition fees covered More details and research areas can be found here: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts...
- Reposted by Arts and Humanities Institute, MaynoothWe're looking forward to hosting award-winning author Mark O'Connell next Thursday 27 March 2pm. Come and join us! This event is free and open to the public. @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @oonaf.bsky.social @mrkocnnll.bsky.social @flordtk.bsky.social
- We love our creative writers 👏🏽👏🏼👏🏽👏🏼👏🏽👏🏼
- Novels by two of our brilliant colleagues, Paul Lynch and Belinda McKeon, are on this @irishtimes.com list of the best novels/ collections of short fiction of the 21st century. 😊 @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social
- We are delighted to invite you to @donalh.bsky.social’s symposium on veteran history. Funded by the @erc.europa.eu and hosted at @maynoothuniversity.ie it will be a fantastic day. #history #Europe #Veterans #colonial #Colvert
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