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"The SCS Research Podcast: Ní hansae/Not difficult" is the podcast of the School of Celtic Studies at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). https://www.dias.ie/series/ni-hansae/
Ní hansae is Old Irish for ‘not difficult’, which is precisely what you will think after having heard the researchers explaining their research in their own words on this podcast.
In each episode, O'Donovan Scholar Nike Stam will throw questions in Old Irish at her coworkers, but not to worry, they will answer in English!
Today we are talking to Dr Daniel Watson, who is a Bergin Fellow in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He tells us about philosophy in early medieval Ireland and that, contrary... Read More
Today we are talking to Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou who is an O’Donovan postdoctoral scholar in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. She gives us a mini-lecture on the text called Acallam na... Read More
Today we are talking to Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova who is an O’Donovan postdoctoral scholar in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. She tells us all about her research on medieval Irish philosophy... Read More
Today we are talking to Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, formerly an O’Donovan postdoctoral scholar in the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (and now at Maynooth University). We discuss his new book ‘Medieval... Read More
Today we are talking to Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn who is the Director of the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. He tells us about the long history of the School, starting with... Read More
Ní hansae, ‘Not Difficult’ in Old Irish, is the research podcast of the School of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, and it’s back for season 2! Tune in to new episodes to learn about... Read More
Past DIAS O’Donovan Scholar, Dr Nike Stam opened this years Samhain agus Science festival, describing the challenges of bringing Celtic Studies to new audiences. Interviewed by Prof. Barry Lewis, Nike goes through the intricacies of podcasting Celtic Studies.... Read More
Past DIAS O’Donovan Scholar, Dr Nike Stam opened this years Samhain agus Science festival, describing the challenges of bringing Celtic Studies to new audiences.
Interviewed by Prof. Barry Lewis, Nike goes through the intricacies of podcasting Celtic Studies.
Nike is currently Veni Postdoc at Utrecht University. Previously Nike completed both her BA in Celtic Studies and her RMA in Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. In 2012, she embarked on her PhD project ‘Language choice as part of intellectual culture’ at the same university. In this project, she analysed instances of Irish-Latin code-switching in the commentary to the Félire Óengusso (Bodleian, Rawlinson B505). She was awarded her doctorate with distinction in 2017, while also lecturing in the undergraduate program of Celtic Studies. In September 2018, she joined the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies as a post-doctoral scholar.
Profile page: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/NStam/and Twitter account @naoicea
Publications
A Typology of Code-switching in the Commentary to the Félire Óengusso. LOT Publications. 2017. (https://www.lotpublications.nl/a-typology-of-code-switching-in-the-commentary-to-the-f%c3%a9lire-%c3%b3engusso)
‘Strategy of Accident: Code-switching in the Commentary to the Félire Óengusso’. Conference proceedings of ‘Code-Switching in Medieval Ireland and England’ in: Münchener Forschungen zur historischen Sprachwissenschaft 18, Hempen Verlag. 71–94. 2018.
With Tom ter Horst: ‘Visual diamorphs: the importance of language neutrality in code-switching from medieval Ireland.’ Language Contact and Bilingualism 15, De Gruyter Mouton. 223–242. 2018.
‘Meertalige middeleeuwen: taalwisselingen in de marges’. Madoc 29/3, 139–147. 2015.
Stam, Nike. “Between Innovation and Tradition: Code-Switching in the Transmission of the Commentary to the Félire Óengusso.” Medieval Worlds, vol. 14, 2021, pp. 120–46, doi:10.1553/medievalworlds_no13_2021s120.
Episode 7. Jacopo Bisagni and Teresa Lynn - Celebrating Multilingualism!
Jacopo Bisagni Profile IrCaBriTT Project @IrCaBriTT Jacopo on RTÉ Brainstorm
Teresa Lynn Profile Teresa’s TEDx Talk Teresa on RTÉ Brainstorm Teresa’s article on code-switching, w. Kevin Scannell Jacopo’s book on the Amra Coluimb Chille in DIAS bookshop The glosses of which Jacopo spoke have been edited in the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus also available in DIAS bookshop
Nike’s thesis on code-switching in the Commentary to the Félire Óengusso is freely downloadable here:
Professor Barry Lewis Profile
Medieval Welsh Poems to Saints and Shrines, available in the DIAS bookshop
SCS Journal Celtica, edited by Barry Lewis and Ruairí Ó hUiginn
ASNAC Department in Cambridge
Celtic Students at the University of Aberystwyth
Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
Recent publications: Celtica – https://shop.dias.ie/product/celtica-journal-of-the-school-of-celtic-studies-vol-31/ Ériu - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/eriu.2019.69.5?seq=1 PhD - https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/6364 Podcast on MSS digitization - https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/andrea-palandri
On the Book of Lismore
- Ní hAnsae: Chantal Kobel
Education: Early Irish Program at TCD Archival Studies and Record Management at UCD
PhD - Kobel, Chantal, “A critical editon of Aided Chonchobair ‘The violent death of Conchobar’: with translation, textual notes and bibliography”, PhD thesis: Trinity College Dublin, Department of Irish and Celtic Studies, 2015.
Talk on Book of Ballycumin – ‘“A Few Trifling Exceptions”: Ignored Texts in RIA MS 23 N 10’, given at “A little remnant of the work of the ancients" 23 N 10: the Book of Ballycummin”, 8th April 2019
Catalogue - ‘A descriptive catalogue of TCD MS H 3. 18 (1337), vols 2-4, pp. 1-87: “Máel Íosa's Book”’, Celtica 32 (2020), 187-215.
Manuscript References
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (Book of Ballycummin) – on ISOS. Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, MS 1339 (Book of Leinster) – on ISOS. Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, MS Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.40 – on ISOS. Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 72.1.5 – on ISOS. The Faddan More Psalter
Other References:
Corthals, Johan [ed.], “The retoiric in Aided Chonchobuir”, Ériu 40 (1989): 41–59. Meyer, Kuno [ed. and tr.], The death-tales of the Ulster heroes, Todd Lecture Series 14, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1906. Talland Étair: Ó Dónaill, Caoimhín [ed. and tr.], Talland Étair, Maynooth Medieval Irish Texts 4, Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish, National University of Ireland, 2005. Read, Anthony, The Faddan More Psalter: Discovery, Conservation and Investigation, Dublin: National Museum of Ireland, 2011. Gillis, John, Online lecture on Faddan More Psalter
Inspiration outside of Academia:
Antoni Tàpies: https://fundaciotapies.org/en/biography/ (biography) https://fundaciotapies.org/en/blog/lobjecte/ (objects) "the emotion of opening a book, of gradually discovering its contents, what lives inside, has something of a ritual..."
DIAS Publications:
Bechbretha ‘Bee Judgements’ D. A. Binchy’s Corpus Iuris Hibernici Liam Breatnach’s Companion to the Corpus Iuris Hibernici
SCS’s Journal Celtica
DIAS Websites:
Irish Script on Screen, run by Anne Marie O’Brien: www.isos.dias.ie
Bibliography of Irish Linguistics and Literature (BILL) run by Alexandre Guilarte: https://bill.celt.dias.ie/
Podcast 3: Anne Marie O’Brien
Of course, ISOS is the most important reference for this podcast! Go and have a look at: www.isos.dias.ie
Anne Marie’s favourite manuscripts are:
- Stowe Missal, RIA MS D ii 3; shrine in National Museum of Ireland, nr. 8: https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/museums/archaeology/visitor-information/top-10-things-to-see
- Lebor na hUidre, RIA MS 23 E 25
- NLS Adv. MS 72.1.2
- The Farmleigh collection was recently donated to Marsh’s Library by the Guinness family. Although owned by Marsh's Library, it will continue to be held at Farmleigh and will remain in the care of the Office of Public Works. It can now be accessed on ISOS through Marsh's Library "Irish Primer" https://www.isos.dias.ie/libraries/MARSH/Irish_Primer/english/index.html
ISOS in the media:
- December 1999 “Ancient Manuscripts to go online”
- 2019 “Manuscripts of 17th-century Irish exiles will live on digitally”
Digital Manuscripts at Oxford University: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Shout out as well to Andrew McCarthy who is our one-man-IT-miracle!
School of Celtic Studies (SCS) Research Podcast - Ní hansae.
Ní hansae is Old Irish for ‘not difficult’, which is precisely what you will think after having heard the researchers explaining their research in their own words on this podcast.
In each episode, O’Donovan Scholar Nike Stam will throw questions in Old Irish at her coworkers, but not to worry, they will answer in English!
Jingle produced by Silvan van der Zwaag of Studio Galassasa; the Irish fragment of Annie Uí Annluain is taken from the DIAS Glór recordings, with thanks to Dr Andrea Palandri. Logo designed by Tim Leech-Cleary.
Production team: Christina Cleary, Margaret Irons, Nike Stam. Technical support: Andrew McCarthy.
With thanks the Director of the School of Celtic Studies for his support and to all the interviewees for taking part.
Our next guest is Mícheál Hoyne, Bergin Fellow at the School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.
You can watch Mícheál's introduction to Bardic Poetry here.
References from the podcast: The Bardic Poetry Database is the work of Dr Katharine Simms, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. It is currently being updated and expanded by Mícheál. Mícheál’s most recent book: Fuidheall Áir: Bardic poems on the Meic Dhiarmada of Magh Luirg c. 1377–c. 1637
Books on Bardic Poetry published by the School of Celtic Studies: An introduction to Irish syllabic poetry of the period 1200–1600, with selections, notes and glossary by Eleanor Knott Irish bardic poetry: texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture by Osborn Bergin, compiled and edited by David Greene and Fergus Kelly; with a foreword by D. A. Binchy The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I by Eoin Mac Cárthaigh Aon don Éigse: Essays Marking Osborn Bergin’s Centenary Lecture on Bardic Poetry (1912) eds. Caoimhín Breatnach and Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail The wedding poems of Dáibhí Ó Bruadair ed. Margo Griffin-Wilson
Damian McManus’ publication on Dogs in Bardic Poetry, ‘Celebrating the Canine I & II’: Celebrating the canine: An edition of Slán dona saoithibh sealga ‘Farewell to the masters of the hunt’, an elegy for Diarmaid Mág Carthaigh's († 1368) hound. Celebrating the canine II: the hunt in Medieval Ireland, with special reference to the evidence of Classical Irish poetry
Our very first guest is Christina Cleary, O'Donovan Scholar at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
You can find her on Twitter @cclearych
References from the podcast: Irish Script on Screen Project at DIAS: www.isos.dias.ie Jacopo Bisagni’s edition of the Amrae Coluimb Chille: https://shop.dias.ie/product/amrae-coluimb-chille-a-critical-edition/ Irish and Celtic Studies at Trinity College Dublin: https://www.tcd.ie/Irish/courses/undergraduate/early.php Dictionary of the Irish Language: www.dil.ie
Aislinge Óenguso ('The Dream of Óengus'; prose): Meid, Wolfgang, Die Suche nach der Traumfrau. Aislinge Óenguso: Oengus’ Traum. Eine altirische Sage, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, Neue Folge 14, Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2017. Fil súil nglais (poem): Murphy, Gerard, Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 64–65, 201–202. Fil duine (poem): Murphy, Gerard, Early Irish lyrics: eighth to twelfth century, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. 160–161, 236–237.