This is a very special day.
After 5⅔ years, 68 months, 2069 days, this is the officially last day of my @ERC_Research funded project "Chronologicon Hibernicum –
A Probabilistic Chronological Framework for Dating Early Irish Language Developments and Literature" at @MaynoothUni.

Thanks to ERC & the fantastic support by @MU_Research & the HEA Covid Relief Fund, it has been possible to extend the project until now, 8 months over its original end date. A strange way to end like this - due to the predicament we're all in, I haven't met the @chronHib team...

...since beginning March 2020, more than a year (altho I have seen most of them individually once or twice since). Life at @EarlyIrishMU will feel very different now.
I want to use the opportunity to name & fame my incredible team who, under my less than adequate direction,...

...have made enormous work and huge progress for the study of Old Irish. I am glad to say that many of them have been able to advance in their career through & after ChronHib.
1. Dr Marco Aquino López who brought Bayesian statistics to the description of Old Irish linguistic...

...changes. Marco is now researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Guanajuato (Mexico).
2. Dr Bernhard Bauer @Bernhard_Baver had the most diverse and glossy career. He started as a research assistant, then had his own @IrishResearch-funded project "Languages in...

...Exchange: Ireland and her Neighbours", and then returned as postdoc researcher to ChronHib where his expertise has been central and indispensable. From September, he will be a @MSCActions fellow at @UniGraz (Austria) to create a digital edition of the Vienna Bede MS.

3. Romanas Bulatovas MA: His PhD on the "Monastery of Tallaght" is still on-going, but due to be completed soon. In the meantime he is working on speech recognition for Apple Barcelona.
4. Francesco Felici MA has been research assistant & will continue his @EarlyIrishMU PhD...

...about the teaching of Old Irish with interactive learning devices.
5. Dr Ellen Ganly was a research assistant, she finished her PhD (under @thecelticist) about St Abbán last year.
6. Tianbo Ji (the only one of who I have no photo), PhD student at DCU, started building our...

...project database.
7. Dr Elliott Lash was central in adding the so-called Minor Glosses to the database and in looking after the syntactic side of things. He is now conducting a @dfg_public project for a "Typological Study of Ellipsis and Information Structure in Old Irish"...

...at @uniGoettingen (Germany).
8. Truc Ha Nguyen MA has been a research assistant, adding data to the database, and she will continue her PhD on aspects of Airec Menman Uraird Meic Coisse with @dhaydenceltic and myself.
9. Dr Lars Nooij @LarsNooij finished his PhD on the...

...Stowe Missal earlier this year and successfully defended his thesis at a Viva two days ago.
10. Godstime Osarobo @Gozi101 has been essential over the past year to get our project database Corpus PalaeoHibernicum going, despite a personally difficult time.

11. Dr Fangzhe Qiu did fantastic work as postdoctoral researcher, not only in creating a database of the Annals of Ulster up to 950, but for any conceptual work in the project. Fangzhe is now Ad Astra Fellow at @UCDIrishStudies.

12. Dr Nora White has been postdoctoral researcher concentrating on bringing the data in the database into shape and applying variational tagging to the data. She will start a new project - tomorrow! A @RIAdawson Nowlan Grant funded project with me on the digitisation...

...of Old Irish inscriptions in the Latin script.

What a fantastic team! Almost a small company! A huge thank you to you all who contributed to the work, and I hope success, of Chronologicon Hibernicum since 2015.

PS: Sorry, in the case of @FCaoimh and @NdeFaoite I forgot to add their Twitter addresses.

PPS: I forgot to mention one other colleague. At the beginning of ChronHib, Dr Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic was hired to cover some of my teaching. In the meantime, not only has Deborah managed to be successful with her own project application "Medieval Irish medicine...

...in its north-western European context: a case study of two unpublished texts (MIMNEC)" funded by @IrishResearch, she has also become a permanent colleague of mine in @EarlyIrishMU @MaynoothUni.

And of course, many thanks to my colleague Dr Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist who took it upon her to bear the burden of Head of Department while I was "away" doing project research. This is greatly appreciated!