The Arts and Humanities Institute is pleased to host ‘Medieval Irish Medicine in its North-western European Context: A Case Study of Two Unpublished Texts’. The project, funded by an inaugural Irish Research Council Laureate Award, will be completed by Dr. Deborah Hayden with the assistance of Dr Siobhán Barrett (Department of Early Irish). The project will focus on the contents and context of two interrelated Irish-language medical tracts that have remained almost entirely untouched by modern scholarship. One of these texts consists of questions and answers on fairly practical medical matters, mainly pertaining to anatomy, while the other is a large compendium of mostly herbal recipes and charms for various ailments. Both tracts provide a wealth of lexicographical information for the history of the Gaelic languages, and shed light on medieval Irish networks of learning and intellectual exchange. They also contain other intriguing features, such as allusions to early Irish mythological texts and numerous versified medical recipes that attest to a complex and dynamic relationship between inherited classical medical learning and medieval Ireland’s diverse and vibrant vernacular literary tradition. The project will take both a cross-disciplinary and a cross-linguistic approach to these and other Irish medical sources, considering, for example, their relationship to other contemporary genres of Irish-language technical or didactic writing, as well as to the extant medical texts of neighbouring regions, such as medieval Wales and Anglo-Saxon England. We would like to express our thanks to the Irish Script on Screen Project www.isos.dias.ie for supplying this image from one of the manuscripts that Dr Hayden and her team will examine.