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Osgur Ó Ciardha @osgurociardha.bsky.social · 1d

Cén chuma a bheadh ar ghníomh radacach chun Gaeilge mar theanga tí a éascú?

Ioncam Bunúsach Uilíoch a thabhairt d’aon duine atá ag tógáil páistí trí mheán na Gaeilge.

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 1d

Today: Modern Irish History seminar at the Univ of #Edinburgh will host Brendan Kane (Visiting Leverhulme Prof in Celtic and #ScottishStudies): ‘Treason, traitors, and loyalty in #earlymodern #Ireland: political thought from the Irish-language archive’.

Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Bldg @1630

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 5d

Manannan’s cloak

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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 10d

Wednesday 1st October, 5.30pm: The Studio, Nicolson Square Venues, 25 Nicolson Square Edinburgh EH8 9BX, in conversation with Dr Désha Osborne, who is writing a literary history of the Scottish presence inSt Vincent and the Grenadines: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heiresses-...

Heiresses, Caribbean Slavery and Scotland

Heiresses, Caribbean Slavery and Scotland: Dr Miranda Kaufmann in conversation with Dr Désha Osborne

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 12d

Diarmaid Ferriter: Two out of three candidates for the presidency can’t speak fluent Irish. That matters

During the 2011 general election campaign, the leaders of the three main parties debated in Irish. That can’t happen now

www.irishtimes.com

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 13d

To be fair to the producers, I know plenty of Irish historians who also seem apparently unaware of Irish speaking Ireland 🫣

Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 13d

‘In one of the more unintentionally hilarious sequences, Ms Guinness visits a village in “Connacht, Co Mayo” and is shocked to discover that a famine took place several years earlier and that everyone speaks Irish. These and other scenes left me crying out for a nice cold, creamy pint of Beamish.’

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13d

House of Guinness on Netflix review: Wildly unfaithful retelling is like Succession with shillelaghs

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 14d

Comhghairdeas libh! Clúdach álainn!

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 15d

Fáilte roimh dhaoine dul i dteagmháil liom faoi seo dá mba mhian leo seal a chaitheamh linn i nDún Éideann. Fáilte ar leith roimh dhaoine atá ag plé le #canúineolaíocht na #Gaeilge, léann na #lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge / #Gàidhlig nó le hábhar ar bith a bhaineann le Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba.

Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 15d

Charlemont Grants scheme is open to applications until 23 October. This scheme is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences.

Learn more here: https://www.ria.ie/grants/charlemont-grants/

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 15d

Fáilte roimh dhaoine dul i dteagmháil liom faoi seo dá mba mhian leo seal a chaitheamh linn i nDún Éideann. Fáilte ar leith roimh dhaoine atá ag plé le #canúineolaíocht na #Gaeilge, léann na #lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge / #Gàidhlig nó le hábhar ar bith a bhaineann le Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba.

Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 15d

Charlemont Grants scheme is open to applications until 23 October. This scheme is a travel grant awarded to outstanding early career researchers working in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences.

Learn more here: https://www.ria.ie/grants/charlemont-grants/

@lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 16d

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 6, the Annals of the Four Masters. The Annals are a chronicle of Irish history from A.M. 2242 to A.D. 1616, compiled between A.D. 1632-1636 by a Franciscan brother and three laymen, now known as the Four Masters.

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 19d

Meal do dheagh naidheachd, Petra!

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 19d

Tá an ceart aige, dar ndóigh, agus is in olcas atá an scéal imithe ó bhí mise i nGaillimh 20 bl. ó shin. tuairisc.ie/cailliuint-d...

‘Cailliúint do cháil’ Ollscoil na Gaillimhe a heaspa cúrsaí trí Ghaeilge – Ó Tuathaigh

Ba é an trua é gur ligeadh le sruth an soláthar cúrsaí trí Ghaeilge ar champas Ollscoil na Gaillimhe a deir iar-leasuachtarán na hOllscoile, an tOllamh Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2026 @rannsachadh2026.bsky.social · 22d

Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.

Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 23d

Call for applications: Endangered Archives Programme
eap.bl.uk/applicants

For Applicants

eap.bl.uk

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 23d

The next USIHS Lecture will be on 16 Oct. at 6pm - Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), ‘When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of the Northern and Southern Uí Néill in the Central Middle Ages’
Free event – all welcome! usihs36.com/2025/09/15/u...

USIHS Lecture

Thursday 16 October: 6pm (27 University Square/01/003 (QUB) and online via Teams) Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), ‘When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of t…

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Ola Majekodunmi @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social · 26d

If you're around Kildare next Friday night, join us for this beautiful event in Riverbank Arts Centre for Culture Night ! 💫

I'll be facilitating a creative, Irish language workshop for adult learners with Fighting Words beforehand too.

www.riverbank.ie/event/cultur...

CULTURE NIGHT 2025: Things We Carry: Expressions of Black-Irish Identity – Riverbank Arts Centre

An evening of spoken word performances and conversations featuring artists chaired by presenter, writer, creative producer and Gaeilgeoir Ola Majekodunmi with Fiyin Oloukun (mixed-media visual artist ...

www.riverbank.ie

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · 28d

This week most of my #UCU colleagues at the U of Edinburgh are striking to protect the institution from hugely damaging compulsory redundancies. As I’m currently on an externally funded research project and not teaching, I’m not on strike but will be donating to the #UCUFightingFund instead!

a blue button with unions protect workers written on it

ALT: a blue button with unions protect workers written on it

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Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Tabharfaidh @chantalkobel.bsky.social seimineár in @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social Déardaoin 16 Deireadh Fómhair.

Dr Chantal Kobel will present a seminar in UCD Thursday 16 October.

'"Come hither!": Guiding the medieval reader in Irish legal vellum manuscripts'.📜

Fáilte roimh chách!

Póstaer faoi sheimineár FLEXI i Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh agus an Bhéaloidis UCD, 16 Deireadh Fómhair 2025. | Poster regarding the FLEXI seminar in UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, 16 October 2025.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 29d

Look at this old Lourdes pilgrimage souvenir in the seanchló I found in a Belgian antique shop on Sunday

A metal badge showing a harp and cross and the text: oilithre Ozanam, Éire 30, Lourdes 1931"

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · Sep 5

And to all of you who came! It was a great day!

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Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social · Sep 4

Táim ar bís le bheith ar ais i nDún Éideann don cheardlann seo - ag dúil go mór leis na páipéir uilig / Looking forward to what promises to be a great day of conversations on the Gaelic Atlantic !

… @pomuirch.bsky.social · Aug 7

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

Poster advertising an event to take place on 5 September 2025 at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic'. The event will run from 10am to 5pm.

10.00
Introduction and welcome

10.30-12.00
Ken Ó Donnchú (UCC): Spanish-Irish translation 1593-1706

Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Gaelic perspectives on ‘state formation’ and Atlantic plantation. The case of Lewis, c.1610-c.1640

Silke Stroh (Koblenz): Re-fitting ‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Circum-Atlantic warfare and intercultural mobility in re-writings and translations of a popular 18th-century song

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-14.30
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh): Viewing Inveraray from St Lucia: The case of Dugald MacNicol’s manuscripts

Kathleen Reddy (Glasgow): The Bàrd na Ceapaich manuscript at the University of Glasgow

Brendan Kane (UConn & Edinburgh): Political thought and politicization from New York to Cork: Reading the early modern through a 19th-century commonplace book

14.30-15.00
Coffee

15.00-16.00
Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh): Johnathon Mackinnon and Mac-Talla

Síobhra Aiken (QUB): Gaeltacht communities in North America: Real or Imagined?

16.00-17.00
Round table
Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), Désha Osborne (Edinburgh)
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Galway)

17.00
Close

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · Sep 4

London is fairly untapped for this sort of research, as of yet, although more work has been done on eighteenth and nineteenth century stuff: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024...

Irish translation of Paradise Lost found again in University of Illinois collection

Irish academic traces 19th-century Irish manuscript to US university collection

www.irishtimes.com

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… @pomuirch.bsky.social · Sep 4

That’s a fascinating manuscript, the tip of an iceberg! We know a fair bit about this stuff in North America, less so about the Iberian Peninsula, Caribbean etc.

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