Dr Oisín Plumb MA (Hons), MSc, FHEA, FSAScot

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Lecturer

Institute for Northern Studies
UHI Perth 
Webster Building
Crieff Road, Perth
PH1 2NX

Biography

Dr Oisín Plumb is originally from Edinburgh. He completed a degree in Medieval Celtic Studies, followed by a masters degree in medieval history at the University of Edinburgh. His masters dissertation examined the engagement of the Iona community with astronomy, geography and unusual natural phenomena. He obtained his PhD on ‘Early Medieval Ecclesiastical migration from Northern Britain to Ireland’ from the University of Edinburgh in 2016. During this time, he also taught in both Celtic and Scottish Studies; and History Classics and Archaeology at Edinburgh. He joined the Institute for Northern Studies as a lecturer in 2017, based initially at UHI Orkney, then UHI Perth. He teaches a range of modules reflecting his research interests in the early medieval world as well as his active interest in Scotland's music and culture. His monograph Picts and Britons in the Early Medieval Irish Church: Travels west over the storm-swelled sea was published by Brepols in 2020.

Research interests

Oisín Plumb’s research focuses on Early medieval Northern Britain and Ireland. Particular issues of interest include the Picts, Dalriada, Ireland, the church, the early medieval north Atlantic, travel and exploration, the formation of local and national identities in the early medieval period, and maps and the understanding of the earth's lands and its place in the cosmos the early middle ages.

Current Project: Where were the Orcades? A study on the ‘Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi’  

 

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Academic Responsibilities

Academic Responsibilities

MLitt Modules:

Picts: Revealing the Painted Past

Celts and Vikings in Contact: the North Atlantic as a Shared Cultural Space

Scotland's Voice II: Music and Song

Gender in Viking Society

Vikings in Scotland and the Irish Sea Region


BA Modules:

Scotland's Music

Celtic and Celtic Revival Art in Scotland

Vikings and Valkeries: People and Society in the Viking Age

Interdisciplinary Project (Culture Studies)

Dissertation (Culture and Heritage)


Taught and Research Degree Supervision

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Publications

Publications

Monograph

  • Picts and Britons in the Early Medieval Irish Church: Travels west over the storm-swelled sea (Turnout: Brepols, 2020) further details

Edited Volumes

  • What is North? Imagining and representing the north from ancient times to the present day, ed. by Oisín Plumb, Alexandra Sanmark and Donna Heddle (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020) further details
  • Alternative facts and plausible fictions in the northern European past, ed. by Oisín Plumb and Alexandra Sanmark (Turnhaut: Brepols, 2024) further details

Articles

Newspaper and Blog Contributions

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External Memberships

External Memberships

  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
  • Member of the Scottish Medievalists
  • Member of the Royal Historical Society