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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 · 20h

What's SEO?

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 20h

No, I don't, but @ndefaoite.bsky.social will be able to answer this.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 21h

Setting a bookmark in your browser may help. 😉

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 21h

@ndefaoite.bsky.social, is there anything that Jef could do to improve the "googlability" of EMILI (and O3D, for that matter)?

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 21h

There is a full entry for this Old Irish inscription in
@ndefaoite.bsky.social's EMILI database under the code GAL-002:
emili.celt.dias.ie/en/inscripti...

@scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social
Funded by @researchireland.ie (EMISoS project) and @ria.ie (Nowlan Grant)

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

Níl a fhios agam cá a dtagann "-in" an Bhéarla uaidh.

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

Sea, is "Kreml'" sa Rúisis é.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 2d

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 26, the Book of Fenagh. This 16th century manuscript is mainly a revision of an older Book of St Caillín which no longer survives. The mark the manuscript’s 500th anniversary in 2016, an online exhibition was created and two lunchtime lectures were delivered

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

Andúil: rud a bheith ag dúil leis a bheith agat i gcónaí.

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

Go hiontach!

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 2d

#og_h_am cois Loch Uachtair Fheartraí @davidstifter.bsky.social

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

Seachtain amháin fágtha: "Lá na Matamaitice as Gaeilge" (12 DF) in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe @uniofgalway.bsky.social, socraithe ag @aonghusoha.bsky.social, Fintan Hegarty, Leo Creedon.

Agus mé ag obair ar mo chaint "Conas a choincheapaítear uimhreacha sa tSean-Ghaeilge"

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 4d

@muahi.bsky.social are recruiting an experienced research administrator. MU AHI are proud to support 3 @erc.europa.eu grants and two prestigious @researchireland.ie Laureate Fellowships, the HiddenCOST Network, and many other awards. Join us! #research #ireland

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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 4d

What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2

Poets and Poetry with Dr Elizabeth Boyle

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

We had a great turn out for our Book of Lecan conference, hosted in the RIA Library and organised in partnership with Maynooth University and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Pictured are two speakers, Alex Woolf and Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, with the Book of Lecan (RIA MS 23 P 2)

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 5d

@unamullally.bsky.social faoin nGaeilge sa Ghuardian inniu. Tá an tseanlitríocht agus an t-ogham luaite i mbeagán focal, i measc rudaí níos tábhachtaí.
Is seafóideach teideal an ailt.

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The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally

Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 5d

IS agus an Ghaeilge sa @irishtimes.com

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AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language

Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems

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Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 6d

*Widame (Proto-Celtic “we found out”), a conference for postgraduate scholars in Celtic Studies, will take place November 7th & 8th 2025 in 1.33 IONTAS in @maynoothuniversity.ie.

Conference schedule and registration is available here: buff.ly/b3GjydF

Register by the 10th of October 2025.

Bilingual information regarding the *Widame conference, 7-8 November in Maynooth University. Register by October 10th.

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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 6d

📜✨ 1/2 New on ISOS: Private collection, Lincoln MS 1.
Beatha Dhéagláin; Páis ár dTiarna; Ábhar Spioradálta
19th-c devotional manuscript (58pp) by Siomon Ó Faoláin, written for Mártan Ó Driscóil. Includes the Life of St Declan of Ardmore, the Passion of Our Lord, & spiritual texts.
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 8d

How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland. A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe, writes @maireadfinnegan.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland

A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, OIr. is used far too little for all kinds of typological studies, mainly because it is known too little. And no, I cannot imagine how literacy could have contributed to linguistic complexification. Also, literacy levels were far too low for almost the entire history of Irish to have any effect.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 8d

I am not sure. I think the major factor for language shift is population movement.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 8d

As long as the writing accurately reflects the phonological and morphological distinction, it is fair to say that it represents the actual language accurately.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 8d

Brave new world. AI will make our lives so much better.

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, Irish was the only one that went about the GUPS (= Great Upheaval of the Phonological System) in a serious and thorough manner. 😆
But yes, it took place across a wide region and many language families at the same time. I don't think this is coincidence.

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