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Des FitzGerald @fitzgeralddes.bsky.social · 15h

Don't miss Words on the Wave – Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe at the @nmireland.bsky.social - it ends next week. Congratulations to all who put together such a beautiful book to accompany the exhibition 👏

A photo of the catalogue from Words on the Wave – Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe. The exhibition ends next week at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St.

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

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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Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg | Langue bretonne @brezhoneg.bsky.social · 15h

📍 Emañ Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg o klask ur c'hargad pe ur gargadez diorren atebeg takad.
📍 L’Office public de la Langue Bretonn recherche un·e chargé·e de développement responsable secteur.
🔗 www.brezhoneg.bzh/.../3WsanwUT....
#bzhg #OffreEmploi

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 16h

The Madog story of a Welsh medieval Welsh prince who sailed to America is absolutely fascinating (my book has a chapter on it!) - but the "America" part doesn't seem to enter the story, on available evidence, until it was a useful justification for Tudor imperialism in North America

Chicago Tafia Welsh Society @chicagotafia.bsky.social · 3d

Prince Madoc (or Madog ab Owain Gwynedd) was a Welsh prince who, according to folklore, sailed across the Atlantic in 1170, more than 300 years before Columbus.

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 15h

See Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street before it closes on Friday 24th October.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 1d

Full circle... 🙄

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

In case you missed it ...

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Dec 13

"68% of Britons would now accept a return to free movement across borders in exchange for regaining access to the EU's single market. Among those who voted to Leave in 2016, the margin for Returning stands at 54-35%. Even 44% of Reform Party voters are in favour of it."
#RejoineU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss this article, #ModernCelts! 🇮🇪🤝🇫🇷 #CelticHistory

Síobhra Aiken @siobhraaiken.bsky.social · 1d

Today's most read on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social. Check out our new digital exhibition tracing the history of visual representations of the Irish revolution in France: @clairedubois.bsky.social
meshs-omekas.univ-lille.fr/omeka-s/s/im...

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How Irish revolutionaries used French language to secure support

The multilingual skills of the revolutionary generation helped them to amplify Ireland's cause on the world stage

www.rte.ie

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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️1 week warning⚠️
Want to pick up Cúpla Focal or learn more about the history of the Irish Language?
Join our Taster/History Session as part of #LIF2025
All welcome - no Irish required!
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🗓️6pm, 22 October 2025
🧭Rendall Building @liverpooluni.bsky.social
🎟️FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1753116200...

LIF 2025: Irish language taster session

Free Irish language taster session as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival 2025.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 1d

A formidable trio are in conversation at the Dublin Book Festival for what promises to be a provocative, challenging, and zesty bilingual event!

📕Ní chuireann sí fiacail ann | She tells it straight📕
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/ni-chuireann...

Ní chuireann sí fiacail ann | She tells it straight at the Dublin Book Festival - Books Ireland

Áine Ní Ghlinn, Rita Ann Higgins, and Laureate for Irish Fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne in bilingual conversation at the Dublin Book Festival this November.

booksirelandmagazine.com

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 6d

Next week, the @nlireland.bsky.social is honoured to host No Time to Wait 9. An essential gathering of experts and changemakers in the digital preservation and audio-visual archiving community, this international conference booked out almost immediately. @mediaarea.net

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The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 1d

Take care of yourselves and #StopSmoking today, #ModernCelts! 😉 You deserve to be healthy. Healthy Celts mean healthy Celtic nations! 🩻

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

Quitting smoking, even in later life, could help slow down age-related memory problems, a study has found

Quitting smoking in later life may slow down decline in memory, study finds

Quitting smoking, even in later life, could help slow down age-related memory problems, a study has found. According to experts, the findings add to evidence that giving up cigarettes may help prevent...

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The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 1d

How's #Brexit going, #ModernCelts? Can we now all admit this was a big lie and an epic failure? 🙄

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.

Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.

Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns

According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026

www.theguardian.com

The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 1d

impasse
nom féminin

(de passer)

1. Rue sans issue ; cul-de-sac : S'engager dans une impasse.
2. Situation qui paraît n'offrir aucune issue favorable : Des négociations dans l'impasse.

Ouest-France @ouest-france.fr · 1d

Certains députés LR voteront-ils tout de même la censure, malgré la demande du parti ? « Je pense qu’il va y en avoir », répond Jonas Haddad, porte-parole des Républicains. « Si j’étais député, j’aurais voté la censure », ajoute-t-il, rejoignant la position de l’eurodéputé François-Xavier Bellamy.

DIRECT. Gouvernement : un porte-parole de LR appelle à voter la censure, malgré la consigne du parti

Sébastien Lecornu a annoncé hier lors de son discours de politique générale la suspension de la réforme des retraites. Le PS ne censurera pas le gouvernement mais il demandera par amendement la taxe Z...

www.ouest-france.fr

The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 1d

How far can they squeeze us all, #ModernCelts? 🤔🍋💸

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

Irish house prices were 7.4% higher in August

New CSO figures suggest annualised rate of increase was unchanged from previous month

www.irishtimes.com

The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 1d

#Naruto e Brezhoneg, #ModernCelts ! 😍🗼🍿 #anime #Breizh #bzhg

Brezhoweb @brezhoweb.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Naruto e Brezhoneg ! 🥷/ 🦊 Naruto parle breton !

Da welet amañ / À voir sur le site de brezhoweb :
👉 www.brezhoweb.bzh/Naruto-sell-...

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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 3d

Samhain agus Science 2025
Sraith léachtaí poiblí de chuid na hInstitiúide
DIAS public lecture series
#DIASdiscovers

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie · 3d

🌙 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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Cornwall / Kernow 〓〓 @cornwalluk.bsky.social · 2d

Visit the planet Mars suspended inside Truro Cathedral

#Cornwall #Kernow

🔗: https://www.falmouthpacket.co...

Visit the planet Mars suspended inside Truro Cathedral

It follows the success of the Gaia artwork at the cathedral in 2023.

www.falmouthpacket.co.uk

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 2d

Time travel exists between the pages of a book.

This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.

A photo showing both sides of an old BEA luggage tag with flight information written on it.

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The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 3d

Interested in learning more about #AncientCelts, #ModernCelts? 😉

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

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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The Modern Celts @moderncelts.bsky.social · 3d

No one's above the law. #Accountability 👍

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3d

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered to jail next week

Sarkozy reported to have hosted 100 friends and former collaborators in ‘goodbye party’

www.irishtimes.com

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 3d

Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

www.irishtimes.com

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Ofis Publik ar Brezhoneg | Langue bretonne @brezhoneg.bsky.social · 3d

🎙️ Qu’est-ce que Common Voice ? On t’explique les bases du projet dans cet article !
🔍 Envie d’en savoir plus sur Common Voice breton ? N'hésite pas à t’abonner à notre page !

#bzhg #CommonVoice

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Kernow 〓〓 @kernow.bsky.social · 20d

Hyns Arvor Baya an Garrek
Pennsans Coastal Path, Kernow

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Project ERSKINE | Radical Gaelic Magazines 1900s – 1930s @erskineproject.bsky.social · 5d

Ùisdean Laing | Hugh Laing was born #OTD 11 October 1889 in South Uist, and spent most of his life in Australia. His own writing and translations into Gaelic appeared in Erskine's magazines and later in Gairm. He received the Bardic Crown in 1965. Find out more: erskine.glasgow.ac.uk/people/hugh-...

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Kernow 〓〓 @kernow.bsky.social · 6d

Myttin da / Good morning BlueSky 🙂

An early blog post about the early history of Cornwall’s oppression and assimilation.

rysrudh.uk/2021/03/02/e...

Early history of Cornwall’s oppression and assimilation

Cornish identity is recognised under the ‘Framework Convention For The Protection Of National Minorities’ that includes: ‘The parties shall refrain from policies or practices aimed at assimil…

rysrudh.uk

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