Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

Such a fantastic week last week when we had 16 transition year students with us for our TY Week 📚 We had a really amazing group for the week who truly made the most of every opportunity and we wish them all the best in the future 🔭✨ @dias.ie #DIASDunsinkObservatory #TransitionYear #TYWeek

Join us this Thursday, 29 October 2026 for our third Samhain agus Science talk with Dr Seán Ó Hoirebhárd discussing "Grisly Tales from the Angle-Norman Advance: Horrors from the Twelfth-Centry". Tickets available from Eventbrite - www.eventbrite.ie/e/grisly-tal...

Our second Samhain agus Science talk of 2026 takes place next Wednesday, 28 Oct with DIAS Prof. Tom Ray discussing "The Dark Forces In the Universe". Tickets are available via Eventbrite -- www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-dark-f...

DIAS' School of Celtic Studies is pleased to announced its 2026-2027 lecture series beginning this Wednesday, 28 October at 5pm with a talk by John Gillis (TCD) on the Fadden More Psalter. Tickets can be purchased via our Eventbrite -- www.eventbrite.ie/e/lecture-th...

Excited for our first Samhain agus Science talk of 2026 tonight! There are two more events next Wednesday and Thursday. Find all the details and book your tickets on Eventbrite -- www.eventbrite.ie/o/dublin-ins...

The @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social 'Samhain agus Science' Lecture takes place on October 29 at 7pm. Tickets below: Grisly tales from the Anglo-Norman advance: horrors of the twelfth century Tickets, Thursday 29 October  •  7 PM - 8 PM | Eventbrite share.google/UiHzUNyMP4fa...

Monday is a crucial day for DIAS Dunsink Observatory as Fingal County Council votes on the Dunsink Area Plan. We have asked all 40 councillors to support measures protecting the Observatory’s heritage, scientific future and our UNESCO World Heritage bid. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

DIAS #SamhainAgusScience 2026 is starting to take shape! 2 events live and more to follow. Check out our Eventbrite collection for the festival, now in it's 9th year! www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...

The wonderful Prof. Barry Lewis @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie delivering the 22nd John V. Kelleher Lecture @harvard.edu this evening on medieval Welsh poets & poetry - an absolutely brilliant start to this year’s Celtic Colloquium! 😀

This is beautiful. Please do click on the youtube link below. Heard this gorgeous 5 minute piece on the special day to launch the new translation of the Navigatio at @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social in #Dublin on 24th Sept. #medievalsky

DIAS is currently seeking to recruit a Research Support and Development Officer. Full details can be found on www.dias.ie/research-sup... Closing date for applications is 28 October 2026.

We are delighted to announced the winners of our AOI #ObserveTheMoonNight colouring competition 2026 🎨 In Dunsink we had Radu as our winner, with winners Anna in Armagh Observatory and Planetarium and Maci in Birr Castle 🔭 Thanks to all who entered, we will be in touch with the winners shortly!

For those of you (still) on FB, @dias.ie's account on that platform has a number of images and soundbites connected with the launch of Nauigatio St Brendani and our reception by Uachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly. www.facebook.com/DIASDublin

We were delighted to welcome Sharon Arbuthnot on Thursday for our Festival Of History Event 🔭 She presented a wonderful talk on Ireland's history with the stars, which was greatly enjoyed by all. Huge thanks to Sharon and our colleagues in @scs-dias.bsky.social for collaborating with us ✨ @dias.ie

DIAS was delighted to visit President Catherine Connolly at Áras an Uachtaráin this week. Dr Eucharia Meehan, Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Professor Ruairí Ó hUigínn, & Professor @davidstifter.bsky.social presented the President with a copy of Navigatio Sancti Brendani. @scs-dias.bsky.social

The @irishexaminer.bsky.social had an article by me about the new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani on the weekend.

It is hard to imagine it has already been a week since #CultureNight We had a fantastic night and a great kick off to our new season of events 🔭 Huge thanks to all our staff volunteers and visitors for making it such an amazing event! @culturenightdub.bsky.social @dias.ie

Lovely few days in Dublin for the launch of the new "Navigatio Sancti Brendani" at @dias.ie A great range of papers (in English & Irish). And exciting to see the conference get a write-up in the @irishtimes.com after the President gave Trump a copy of the book! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Mícheál Ó Maoilchiaráin and his Liffey curach in front of the entrance to @dias.ie, rowed in for the day in celebration of Nauigatio St Brendani.

Og(h)am of the day: Taoiseach Mícheál Martin exchanged ogham version of their names with the Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani.

The big day is coming up today: at @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie: "The Voyage of St Brendan: A European Odyssee". www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-voyage... My day will start at 8.30 with an interview at RTÉ's Morning Ireland... It will be a long day.

An obscure academic curio, or if you prefer, the most famous book by an Irish author before Yeats, will be launched this Thursday at DIAS. www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-voyage...

What do Catherine Connolly, Donald Trump and myself have in common? We are all mentioned in this article in the Irish Times by Ronan McGreevy: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie

Last week, Dr Corinna Salomon @lexiconleponticum.bsky.social and Dr Pietro Giusteri started as O'Donovan scholars at @scs-dias.bsky.social. With them, @dias.ie will be the global epicenter of Cisalpine Celtic Studies in the coming year (DIAS of course has many other claims to fame as well). /1

Fun fact: one of the gifts that An tUachtarán gave to her visitor this morning was the new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani "The Voyage of St Brendan" (ed. Rossana Guglielmetti & Giovanni Orlandi) that was recently published by @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie. More info: shop.dias.ie/product/navi...

A full day will be devoted at @dias.ie to celebrating the publication of this book. Here's the exciting programme of the day. The event is free, but we ask you kindly to register at www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-voyage.... See also: bsky.app/profile/davi... /2

Newly published by @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie: Liam Breatnach, Fíngein mac Flaind’s poem on the Fir Arda: An early medieval Irish reflection on the limitations of satire, DIAS 2026 Available at: shop.dias.ie/product/fing...

...by Cian Grant voxaeternastudio.com. The piece will be premièred in @dias.ie Thursday next week at the launch of the new edition of Nauigatio St Brendani. The rehearsal took place in the beautiful St. George's and St. Thomas's Parish Church in North Dublin.

M'áit oibre nua. Tá caibidil nua i mo shaol ag tosú inniu, tar éis 15 bliana mar Ollamh na Sean- agus Mheán-Ghaeilge in Ollscoil Má Nuad, tar éis 7 mbliana mar Cheann na Roinn agus 2 bhliain mar Cheann na Scoile, is í Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social...

My new workplace. A new chapter in my life after 15 years as Professor of Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University, almost 7 years Head of the Department of Early Irish, 2 years Head of the School of Celtic Studies, I am Senior Professor of Celtic Studies at the Dublin Institute for Advanced...

The programme for the @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie Tionól 2026 is out (26-28 November). An exciting, three-day programme.

2/2 📜Chronicon Scotorum joins the AIHS collection on ISOS. Described in 1980 by Pádraig de Brún and Nessa Ní Shéaghdha, with additional notes from AIHS. Explore the manuscript: www.isos.dias.ie/AIHS/AIHS_Ch... #DIASdiscovers #MedievalManuscripts #IrishManuscripts @dias.ie @dias-isos.bsky.social

🚨Applications for our TY Week are now OPEN! 🚨 More information and the link to the application form are available on our website at www.dunsink.dias.ie/education/se...

Looking forward to taking part in this symposium at @dias.ie in a few weeks. Open to all (but spaces limited) – so register now! (I'll be speaking about medieval navigation, of course ⛵ ) www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-voyage...

What a lovely article from @meathchronicle.bsky.social on our own Sadhbh Leahy of @diasdunsink.bsky.social 👏 It's always fantastic to read the stories behind our people. #DIASdiscovers www.meathchronicle.ie/2026/08/23/t...

One for the diary: Symposium "The Voyage of St Brendan: A European Odyssey" in celebration of the new edition & translation of Nauigatio St Brendani published by @scs-dias.bsky.social Where: @dias.ie 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 2 When: 24 Sept 2026 registration: www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-voyage...

Thanks to these lads and lassies from the Irish Air Corps, DIAS, TCD, TU Dublin and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. Hope you enjoyed it!

Fantastic shots of the eclipse from DIAS Professor @petertgallagher.bsky.social aboard the Irish Air Corps flight into the eclipse. Invaluable data was harvested during this mission. Thanks to all of our mission partners! #DIASdiscovers #SolarEclipse2026

A group of Irish scientists are preparing for an aerial mission during tomorrow's solar eclipse that will gather new information about the Sun