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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · Nov 9

By way of 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮:
In the last days huge numbers have started to follow me. So maybe it is appropriate to say something about myself.
I teach Old Irish at @maynoothuni.bsky.social and propagate it world-wide via my introduction to the language, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐨í𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐜: www.siopaleabhar.com/en/tairgi/se....
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Sengoidelc - An Siopa Leabhar

David Stifter’s Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, ...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1m

shop.universitybooks.ie/Books/OGAM_9...

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OGAM - universitybooks.ie

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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 5m

The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for October 2025 is Dublin, TCD MS 1323 (H.3.4), containing materia medica, texts on the medicinal virtues of feverfew and whiskey, marginal notes in ogham and this very cool letter ‘H’:

leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1m

A box of goodies just arrived: reprints of my book on ogam and other ancient Celtic languages (bsky.app/profile/pren...). A long waiting; the book on ogam had to be reprinted because of the demand.

Soon available again in @nmireland.bsky.social and Maynooth Bookshop (universitybooks.ie).

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 17h

This incredibly rich volume, "Écrire sur la pierre en langue gauloise", edited by Coline Ruiz-Darasse, just came through the letter box late this evening. (It's incredible €19, if you are interested). It's the main printed output of the RIIG project (riig.huma-num.fr).

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 19h

Bréaga a chreideann ríomhchláraitheoirí faoi teangacha, le samplaí. Ó @lexiconista.bsky.social

www.lexiconista.com/falsehoods-a...

Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

This is what we have to put up with in the software localisation industry.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 19h

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Fintan @fintan-galway.bsky.social · 1d

Sleamhnán spéisiúil goidte ó chur i láthair @davidstifter.bsky.social. Cathal ag bronnadh Duais Christofides ar Roseanna. Oscailt súl ó @ciaraegan.bsky.social. Rachel ag cinntiú go bhfillfeadh an lucht éisteachta.

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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie · 1d

🌙 Get ready for Samhain agus Science 2025 — Halloween fun with a scientific spark! 🔬

Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌

🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!

#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10(ii), the Book of O’Lees. It contains a 15th C translation from Latin into Irish of a highly organised medical treatise, with 44 tables outlining details of diseases, each divided into 99 compartments, across, aslant, and vertical.

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Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie · 1d

Translators of medieval romances reshaped stories to portray Irish women as more independent and proactive than their English counterparts, writes Benedetta d’Antuono, PhD researcher at the Department of Early Irish. 💘

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Medieval illustration depicting two figures in elaborate clothing, possibly embracing. One holds a hawk perched on the wrist, while the scene is framed with decorative floral patterns and a striped border. The colors are vivid, including reds and greens.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · Aug 11

⚠️ Seminar announcement: in semester 2 of the new academic year (Feb-May 2026), I will be teaching a

𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 (SG648)

in the Dept. of Early Irish (@ceilteachomn.bsky.social) at Maynooth University.
Guests from outside are very welcome.

More info ⬇️

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

Dóchas - i gcónaí an chéad chéim chun díomá.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

Tagann sé ó SG _da ḟichit_ (níos déanaí _da ḟichet_) le _a_ gairid, ní ón leagan níos óige _dá_ le _á_ fada.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

...his analysis in an excel spreadsheet.
His first text is commonly known as ‘West Munster Synod’. Two facts make it an ideal text to analyse for the DiⒶgnostic project: Its origin is very obviously in Munster and it can be quite confidently assigned to the middle of the 9th century.
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

Francesco has joined as a postdoctoral researcher. His task is to annotate Old Irish texts with an origin clearly outside of the north-east of Ireland and to add the data to the CorPH database. Since the structure of the database is currently being revised, Francesco is starting by entering...
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

...(@ceilteachomn.bsky.social) last year (see: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...) & will be conferred later this month. Francesco has been teaching OIr. in Maynooth for several years and he has been creating radically new learning tools for OIr. (e.g., www.evertype.com/books/primer...).
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Now You’re Talking... Old Irish Towards a conversational approach to teaching Old Irish - MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 1d

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 17
A lot has happened since the last news bulletin. Here’s the most important news item from the DiⒶgnostic project. Two new researchers joined the project at the beginning of October.
I start with Dr Francesco Felici. He completed his PhD in Medieval Irish in Maynooth...
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an duine deas @duinedeas.bsky.social · 1d

An-imeacht. 'Ceathracha' is fearr liom ar 40 ach beidh glacadh agam le 'daichead' freisin feasta ó mhínigh @davidstifter.bsky.social gur ó dhá fhichead a thagann sé, rud nárbh eol dom.

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Tonton Alberto @tontonalberto.bsky.social · 2d

Bon dimanche

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dwmalone.bsky.social @dwmalone.bsky.social · 2d

As part of #mathsweek, there is a special Lá na Mata organised in Galway, including @davidstifter.bsky.social, @cathal.bsky.social and others. So, I have a few as Gaeilge maths jokes...

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💙 MaryH 💙 @maryh58.bsky.social · 3d

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 2d

No.

e-grade: sit < *sede-
o-grade: set < *sodei̯e-

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 3d

The Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available Online

If you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart ...

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe a loan from Scandinavian?

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 3d

Amárach!

Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 5d

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Dé Domhnaigh beag seo, sa Ghaillimh agus san cíbear Ghaeltacht - Matamatic á phlé trí Ghaeilge. Fáilte roimh chách.
Nasc cláraithe thuas.

Lá na Matamaitice as Gaeilge

Lá na Matamaitice as Gaeilge 12 Deireadh Fómhair Ollscoil na Gaillimhe English Mar chuid de Seachtain Mhatamaitice 2025, beidh Lá Matamaitice as Gaeilge in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, ar an 12 Deireadh …

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