{"podcast":{"title":"The Medieval Irish History Podcast","slug":"the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519","podcast_index_feed_id":6716519,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ee5ac640/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/39889264/39889264-1701801575802-e4f9bcca653db.jpg","author":"The Medieval Irish History Podcast","episode_count":59,"summary":"Hosted by Dr Niamh Wycherley, this podcast shows that medieval Irish history is complex and dynamic — not at all stuffy or static. Via lively and engaging chats with leading experts, it explores aspects of a largely ignored, but commonly evoked, period, and shares new and exciting research on medieval Ireland. medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth University & Taighde Éireann. Views expressed are speakers' own. Production: Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva. Logo design: Matheus de Paula Costa Music: Lexin_Music","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519"},"episode":{"title":"St Brigid in Continental Europe with Prof. Jean-Michel Picard","slug":"st-brigid-in-continental-europe-with-prof-jean-michel-picard","published_at":"2026-01-29T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519/st-brigid-in-continental-europe-with-prof-jean-michel-picard","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/medievalirishhistory/episodes/St-Brigid-in-Continental-Europe-with-Prof--Jean-Michel-Picard-e3eat48","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ee5ac640/podcast/play/114700872/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-28%2F417028796-44100-2-a946eec0e0ee1.m4a","summary":"Happy St Brigit's day! This year's celebration of Ireland's most beloved female icon comes a bit earlier to the podcast, but keep tuned as we have prepared a surprise for you to be published this weekend! This week we are joined by the amazing linguist and historian Jean-Michel Picard, Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin, whose work has inspired generations of scholars studying medieval Ireland and Irish saints. In this episode, Prof. Picard tells us all about the transmission of the cult of St Brigit to the Continent, the various sources containing a wealth of information about the saint. Prof. Picard also shares the difficulties of tracking down manuscripts before the internet and offers us a glimpse of medieval Irish scholarship in Ireland in the 1980s. Suggested Readings: Connolly, Sean, and J.-M. Picard. 'Cogitosus’s ‘Life of St Brigit’ Content and Value', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland , 117 (1987), pp 5-27. Freely available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25508920. Picard, J.M. Aquitaine and Ireland in the Middle Ages (Dublin, 1995). Picard, J.-M. 'In platea monasterii: the layout of ecclesiastical settlements in early medieval Ireland (7th-9th C.)', in Flavia De Rubeis & Federico Marazzi (eds). Monasteri in Europa occidentale (secoli VIII-XI): topografia e strutture (Rome, 2008), pp.67-82. Picard, J.-M. ' Omnes sancti chori Hiberniae sanctorum orate pro nobis : Manuscript Evidence for the Cult of Irish Saints in Medieval Europe', in Ann Buckley Music, Liturgy, and the Veneration of Saints of the Medieval Irish Church in a European Context (2017), pp. 67-77. Regular episodes every two weeks (on a Friday) Email: medievalirishhistory@gmail.com Producer: Tiago Veloso Silva Supported by the Dept of Early Irish, Maynooth Uni…","meta_description":"Happy St Brigit's day! This year's celebration of Ireland's most beloved female icon comes a bit earlier to the podcast, but keep tuned as we have prepare…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3512,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519/episodes/st-brigid-in-continental-europe-with-prof-jean-michel-picard/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-medieval-irish-history-podcast-6716519/st-brigid-in-continental-europe-with-prof-jean-michel-picard.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}