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Ì Chaluim Chille

June 9, 2021 Thomas Clancy Project News

Thomas Owen Clancy On the Feast of St Columba (9th June), it seems appropriate to think a bit about the[…]

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How to arrange your Corpses

April 27, 2021 Gilbert Markus Project News

How to arrange your corpses: Saint Odrán and the replication of Iona’s Landscape Gilbert Márkus In the twelfth-century Irish ‘Life[…]

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Blàr Buidhe and other colours in Iona place-names

February 17, 2021 Sofia Evemalm-Graham Project News

A series of Advent Tweets in December last year by @ChronHib (find it here) sparked this investigation into how colours[…]

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Iona: A Map

February 2, 2021 Sofia Evemalm-Graham Project News

Mairi MacArthur writes: On 9th June 1928 – the feast of St Columba – Alec Ritchie wrote from Iona to his[…]

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Latin and Gaelic in the early monastery: detecting a dialect-shift?

December 18, 2020 Gilbert Markus Project News

There is a problem with looking at very early sources for evidence of Iona place-names.  Well there are several, but[…]

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The trouble with Cobhain Cuildich

December 7, 2020 Thomas Clancy Project News

Welcome to the first blog on the Iona’s Namescape website, which we are posting on 7th December, the traditional day[…]

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Map in background image: A & E Ritchie, The map of Iona. I Chaluim - Chille (1930) courtesy of National Library of Scotland, photo in background image: Shutterstock

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