David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
@davidstifter.bsky.social
Ollamh le Sean- ⁊ Meán-Ghaeilge, BARE
Ceann Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad 🇮🇪
Taighdeoir ar ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM ⁊ DiAgnostic
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https://maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/david-stifter
Ceann Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad 🇮🇪
Taighdeoir ar ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM ⁊ DiAgnostic
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https://maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/david-stifter
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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, ...
www.siopaleabhar.com
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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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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For a workshop in developing leadership skills that I attended today, I had to create a meme about what I think about "leading". I came up with this variation of a popular theme.
January 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
For a workshop in developing leadership skills that I attended today, I had to create a meme about what I think about "leading". I came up with this variation of a popular theme.
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
Happy Birthday @wikipedia.org!
On this day 25 years ago the first Wikipedia edit was made: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
You can donate to make Wikipedia last many quarter centuries more:
donate.wikipedia25.org
On this day 25 years ago the first Wikipedia edit was made: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
You can donate to make Wikipedia last many quarter centuries more:
donate.wikipedia25.org
Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Happy Birthday @wikipedia.org!
On this day 25 years ago the first Wikipedia edit was made: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
You can donate to make Wikipedia last many quarter centuries more:
donate.wikipedia25.org
On this day 25 years ago the first Wikipedia edit was made: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
You can donate to make Wikipedia last many quarter centuries more:
donate.wikipedia25.org
I started my seminar Ancient Celtic language two days ago with over 20 participants from literally around the world. If someone still wants to join, this is your chance: because some participants couldn't make it, I will repeat the first session in the coming days.
More info below.
More info below.
⚠️ 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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I started my seminar Ancient Celtic language two days ago with over 20 participants from literally around the world. If someone still wants to join, this is your chance: because some participants couldn't make it, I will repeat the first session in the coming days.
More info below.
More info below.
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Hello Bluesky!
January 14, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Hello Bluesky!
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Research Ireland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have launched a new research programme that will deliver transformational impact on creative economy research between the UK and Ireland. Deadline to apply is 24th March 2026. For more visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/crea...
January 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Research Ireland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have launched a new research programme that will deliver transformational impact on creative economy research between the UK and Ireland. Deadline to apply is 24th March 2026. For more visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/crea...
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Studia Celtica 2025 has arrived! - a substantial issue, produced jointly by the Ganolfan and @uniwalespress.bsky.social @collen105.bsky.social. Further information is given here: www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Studia Celtica 2025 has arrived! - a substantial issue, produced jointly by the Ganolfan and @uniwalespress.bsky.social @collen105.bsky.social. Further information is given here: www.uwp.co.uk/journal/stud...
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 26
A peculiar and honestly bizarre suggestion for dialectal variation in Old Irish is that of the treatment of the loan word for the ‘holy spirit’, borrowed from Lat. spiritus. It occurs in the Milan glosses as monosyllabic spiurt gen. sg. spiurto, and in the Würzburg glosses...
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A peculiar and honestly bizarre suggestion for dialectal variation in Old Irish is that of the treatment of the loan word for the ‘holy spirit’, borrowed from Lat. spiritus. It occurs in the Milan glosses as monosyllabic spiurt gen. sg. spiurto, and in the Würzburg glosses...
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January 13, 2026 at 6:55 AM
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 26
A peculiar and honestly bizarre suggestion for dialectal variation in Old Irish is that of the treatment of the loan word for the ‘holy spirit’, borrowed from Lat. spiritus. It occurs in the Milan glosses as monosyllabic spiurt gen. sg. spiurto, and in the Würzburg glosses...
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A peculiar and honestly bizarre suggestion for dialectal variation in Old Irish is that of the treatment of the loan word for the ‘holy spirit’, borrowed from Lat. spiritus. It occurs in the Milan glosses as monosyllabic spiurt gen. sg. spiurto, and in the Würzburg glosses...
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
The manuscript of the week is RIA MS C vi 1, the Book of Knockninny. This Irish manuscript was compiled in 1718 for Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, Co. Fermanagh.
January 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
The manuscript of the week is RIA MS C vi 1, the Book of Knockninny. This Irish manuscript was compiled in 1718 for Brian Mág Uidhir of Knockninny, Co. Fermanagh.
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
✨#17 - #20 of #85 Things About DIAS
Through its early international collaborations, DIAS strengthened Ireland’s academic standing by introducing expertise and methods that would have taken fair longer to develop domestically. The following slides highlight some of DIAS' collaborations.
#DIAS85
Through its early international collaborations, DIAS strengthened Ireland’s academic standing by introducing expertise and methods that would have taken fair longer to develop domestically. The following slides highlight some of DIAS' collaborations.
#DIAS85
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
✨#17 - #20 of #85 Things About DIAS
Through its early international collaborations, DIAS strengthened Ireland’s academic standing by introducing expertise and methods that would have taken fair longer to develop domestically. The following slides highlight some of DIAS' collaborations.
#DIAS85
Through its early international collaborations, DIAS strengthened Ireland’s academic standing by introducing expertise and methods that would have taken fair longer to develop domestically. The following slides highlight some of DIAS' collaborations.
#DIAS85
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
A little announcement to start the year: over the next few days all sites of the Van Hamel Foundation (CODECS included) will go offline for an upgrade and unless anything unforeseen happens, should be back up within a week or so.
January 8, 2026 at 12:41 PM
A little announcement to start the year: over the next few days all sites of the Van Hamel Foundation (CODECS included) will go offline for an upgrade and unless anything unforeseen happens, should be back up within a week or so.
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
A large cross-inscribed ogham stone at Kilcolman on the Dingle Peninsula.
The ogham inscription that runs from the bottom left, up over the top of the stone, reads:
ANM COLOLOLN ALILTIR
'The name of Colmán the Pilgrim'
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
The ogham inscription that runs from the bottom left, up over the top of the stone, reads:
ANM COLOLOLN ALILTIR
'The name of Colmán the Pilgrim'
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
January 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
A large cross-inscribed ogham stone at Kilcolman on the Dingle Peninsula.
The ogham inscription that runs from the bottom left, up over the top of the stone, reads:
ANM COLOLOLN ALILTIR
'The name of Colmán the Pilgrim'
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
The ogham inscription that runs from the bottom left, up over the top of the stone, reads:
ANM COLOLOLN ALILTIR
'The name of Colmán the Pilgrim'
#Ireland #SpéirGhorm
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
I spent Christmas thinking about Greco-Bactrian kings and Greek texts in Nubia, and now you can too!
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
Greek, the Asian and African Language
Just as the borders of Europe are geographically, politically and socially fuzzy, so too are its linguistic edges. Whatever lines of demarcation we care to draw, the many flavours of speech to be h…
dannybate.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:49 AM
I spent Christmas thinking about Greco-Bactrian kings and Greek texts in Nubia, and now you can too!
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
If you'd welcome some distraction from Armageddon, here's my January mega-post, all about the Greek language's life beyond Europe.
dannybate.com/2026/01/06/g...
Colmán (a borrowing from Lat. columba) and ferán eidinn "little ivy man" are the OIr. words for the "common wood pigeon".
Despite the noise from the nearby building site, I hear one cry right now. A sign of spring (only 25 days away according to Irish tradition)?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
Despite the noise from the nearby building site, I hear one cry right now. A sign of spring (only 25 days away according to Irish tradition)?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
Common wood pigeon - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 7, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Colmán (a borrowing from Lat. columba) and ferán eidinn "little ivy man" are the OIr. words for the "common wood pigeon".
Despite the noise from the nearby building site, I hear one cry right now. A sign of spring (only 25 days away according to Irish tradition)?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
Despite the noise from the nearby building site, I hear one cry right now. A sign of spring (only 25 days away according to Irish tradition)?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Tá forbairt á déanamh againn ar Gharraí na Gaeilge chun cultúr Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, idir sean agus nua, a chur in iúl.
Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge.
Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa
Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge.
Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Tá forbairt á déanamh againn ar Gharraí na Gaeilge chun cultúr Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, idir sean agus nua, a chur in iúl.
Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge.
Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa
Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge.
Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa
An instructive example that science and politics need to be kept separate.
From the 1920s until the early 1950s, Soviet linguistics was dominated by Nikolai Marr (1864–1934). His teachings, known as Marrism, were a linguistic adaptation of Marxist materialist principles and represented the official linguistic policy of the Soviet Union.
1/7 #Histlx
1/7 #Histlx
#OTD 161 years ago, Nikolai Marr (1865–1934) was born. An expert on Caucasian languages and the author of the speculative Japhetic theory of the origin of language, his ideas became Soviet linguistic dogma until 1950 and were often used against political opponents.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
January 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
An instructive example that science and politics need to be kept separate.
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Reception-related panels #CFP Celtic Conference in Classics (Maynooth, 14-17 July): Receptions of Homeric Scholarship in Antiquity; Lyric Forms, Modern Worlds; Classical Antiquity and Northern Ireland; Gramsci, Marx, and the Pre-Capitalist World. All panels: cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io/panels-full
CCC 2026 at Maynooth Uni.
Host site for the 2026 Celtic Conference in Classics, at Maynooth University
cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Reception-related panels #CFP Celtic Conference in Classics (Maynooth, 14-17 July): Receptions of Homeric Scholarship in Antiquity; Lyric Forms, Modern Worlds; Classical Antiquity and Northern Ireland; Gramsci, Marx, and the Pre-Capitalist World. All panels: cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io/panels-full
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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála or the Book of Invasions, an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in many variant versions, in poetry and prose: www.ria.ie/collections/...
This version was compiled for Brian Ruadh Mág Uidhir (Maguire), Baron of Enniskillen.
This version was compiled for Brian Ruadh Mág Uidhir (Maguire), Baron of Enniskillen.
January 5, 2026 at 10:52 AM
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 M 70, Leabhar Gabhála or the Book of Invasions, an origin legend of the Irish people that exists in many variant versions, in poetry and prose: www.ria.ie/collections/...
This version was compiled for Brian Ruadh Mág Uidhir (Maguire), Baron of Enniskillen.
This version was compiled for Brian Ruadh Mág Uidhir (Maguire), Baron of Enniskillen.
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Happy New Year! In our new episode Dr Sparky Booker @historytcd.bsky.social shares some wonderful, instructive, insights into how we can explore gender, class, ethnicity & community through an exam of individual legal cases in a fascinating period of Irish history. open.spotify.com/episode/38Aq...
Women, marriage and the law in later medieval Ireland with Dr Sparky Booker
open.spotify.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Happy New Year! In our new episode Dr Sparky Booker @historytcd.bsky.social shares some wonderful, instructive, insights into how we can explore gender, class, ethnicity & community through an exam of individual legal cases in a fascinating period of Irish history. open.spotify.com/episode/38Aq...
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 25
The DiⒶgnostic team wishes everyone a successful 2026!
We continue with proposed dialectal differences in Early Irish. The word for ‘house’ occurs in various forms in Irish sources. The nominative singular is simple: the oldest form was teg < *tegos, but it is most commonly...
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The DiⒶgnostic team wishes everyone a successful 2026!
We continue with proposed dialectal differences in Early Irish. The word for ‘house’ occurs in various forms in Irish sources. The nominative singular is simple: the oldest form was teg < *tegos, but it is most commonly...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 25
The DiⒶgnostic team wishes everyone a successful 2026!
We continue with proposed dialectal differences in Early Irish. The word for ‘house’ occurs in various forms in Irish sources. The nominative singular is simple: the oldest form was teg < *tegos, but it is most commonly...
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The DiⒶgnostic team wishes everyone a successful 2026!
We continue with proposed dialectal differences in Early Irish. The word for ‘house’ occurs in various forms in Irish sources. The nominative singular is simple: the oldest form was teg < *tegos, but it is most commonly...
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Ábhar neamhbheo leis an gcéad ghealach lán den bhliain agus Iúpatar sa spéir, agus trí aláram slándála ar an talamh.
January 3, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Ábhar neamhbheo leis an gcéad ghealach lán den bhliain agus Iúpatar sa spéir, agus trí aláram slándála ar an talamh.
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Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025.
Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH
Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once.
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Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH
Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once.
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DH Awards 2025 – Call For Nominations | Digital Humanities Awards
dhawards.org
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025.
Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH
Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once.
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH
Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once.
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
🎶 I wish everyone a successful and joyful New Year 2026 🥂🍾
Robad mellach, a meic mo Dé,
dingnaib réimenn
ascnam tar tuinn topur ndílenn
dochum nÉirenn.
Co Mag nÉolairg, sech Beinn Foibne,
tar Loch Febail,
airm i·cluinfinn cuibdius cubaid
ocna helaib.
Robad mellach, a meic mo Dé,
dingnaib réimenn
ascnam tar tuinn topur ndílenn
dochum nÉirenn.
Co Mag nÉolairg, sech Beinn Foibne,
tar Loch Febail,
airm i·cluinfinn cuibdius cubaid
ocna helaib.
January 1, 2026 at 1:23 PM
🎶 I wish everyone a successful and joyful New Year 2026 🥂🍾
Robad mellach, a meic mo Dé,
dingnaib réimenn
ascnam tar tuinn topur ndílenn
dochum nÉirenn.
Co Mag nÉolairg, sech Beinn Foibne,
tar Loch Febail,
airm i·cluinfinn cuibdius cubaid
ocna helaib.
Robad mellach, a meic mo Dé,
dingnaib réimenn
ascnam tar tuinn topur ndílenn
dochum nÉirenn.
Co Mag nÉolairg, sech Beinn Foibne,
tar Loch Febail,
airm i·cluinfinn cuibdius cubaid
ocna helaib.