Avicenna in Ireland: A manuscript discovery with Padraig O'Machain

Published: March 20, 2019, 3:04 a.m.

This month, an exciting connection was made between Islamic and Irish medicine through the discovery of a medieval fragment of Avicenna\u2019s Canon of Medicine bound in a sixteenth-century printed book. In this episode, Dani\xe8le speaks with P\xe1draig O\u2019Mach\xe1in about his discovery of the very first physical evidence that Avicenna was translated and shared in Gaelic.