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Designing sustainable Digital Editions
This is a lightly revised version of a talk I gave at the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in Maynooth on 26 May 2025. What will Digital Editions look like in 2045? Or 2138?
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Latin’s legacy in the Irish language
Latin was the language of the Romans. But it was also much more. It was the language of the elites and eventually also the ordinary people of the entire western Roman Empire. Latin also had a significant impact on the Irish language as well.
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Advice for research presentations
When I was a PhD student, I came across a web page with some very practical advice from Danuta Shanzer for presenters at conferences. I read it many times and found it very useful. Here is my own version of ‘Advice for lecturers’.
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A beginner’s guide to XML and TEI
This is a very short and simple guide for people who want to start working on digital editions, but are completely unfamiliar with XML and TEI.
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Major funding success in medieval Irish studies
Ground-breaking research into the history and culture of medieval Ireland has recently been undergoing a huge expansion, with significant investment coming from funding agencies in Ireland and the EU.
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A guide to finding manuscript images online
Research on early medieval Latin manuscripts has been utterly transformed in the past 15 years or so by the ever-increasing availability of high-quality digital images online.
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The impact of epidemics in ancient Greece and early Ireland
The Covid-19 crisis is a unique event in all of our lives, but it is by no means unique in human history.
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Did a medieval Irish manuscript uncover a new word of Old Dutch?
It’s not often that medieval Irish manuscripts make the news – and it’s all the more unusual when they feature on Dutch national media.
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Some online bibliographies
A few online bibliographical resources for early medieval philology (with an Irish focus).
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A second research trip on East Asian glossing
In 2024 I had the great fortune to make a return visit to Japan, where we had the opportunity to see more precious manuscripts.