V proud supervisor! Congrats DR Gaëlle Clion who had a very successful viva today @unioflimerick.bsky.social. Pictured with Gaëlle are supervisors @gordonoriain.bsky.social @aofionnagain.bsky.social & examiners Sile de Cléir & Pádraig Ó Macháin (UCC). Thanks also to chair @drtinamorin.bsky.social

The latest volume of the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie is now available www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

There's a lot of positivity about Irish at the moment in public commentary, but this inspectors' report on the teaching of Irish in national schools is damning: Summary: many teachers are unable to speak the language they are 'teaching': www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Listen back to The History Show (RTÉR1) Labhair mé faoi chúrsaí teanga & Ainmleabhair na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis - ba bhochtaide ar fad an tuiscint a bheadh againn ar log. na hÉireann gan na foirmeacha Ga a chuir Seán Ó Donnabháin (1806-61) agus a chomhoibrithe leo. https:// tinyurl.com/2zs8s4f8

Lán an tí i láthair aréir don chéad léacht i séasúr an Fhómhair de chuid shraith bhliantúil Chumann Staire Bhaile Átha Luain

Great to see such a big crowd of all ages attend a placename-themed walk of the beautiful Low Road along Lough Ree yesterday, as part of Heritage Week. Thanks to Minister Kevin 'Boxer' Moran for attending & for support from ‪@heritagecouncil.ie‬ & @westmeathcoco

A busy weekend ahead - I'll be giving two placenames related talks as part of Heritage Week: Cúpla lá gnóthach le cur isteach agus dhá chaint ar chúrsaí logainmneacha agus staire le tabhairt agam mar chuid de Sheachtain na hOidhreachta

Turas as Baile Átha Luain, thar Charraig Uí Bhraoin, Corr na gCloch go Bun Buidhre agus Currach Buí

Na Beanna Beola as Gob an Phuint, Cladach Dhumhaigh Ithir, Trá Mhaírois - parthas talmhaí inniu

Post buan ar fáil in Ollscoil Luimnigh - Ollamh Cúnta le Gaeilge (An Nua-Ghaeilge Mhoch go dtí an t-am i láthair)

The annual Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) seminar was back in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) this week to a full house and convened with the Irish Walled Towns Network an initiative of @heritagecouncil.ie Read more here: www.ria.ie/2025/05/29/2...

I find some of the language in this article in 'Irish Educational Studies' very partial: 'students are subjected to learning Irish' etc. The repeated assertion of a strong connection between the Irish language and political outlook is also very odd: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/3)

B'iontach an rud é deis a bheith agam caint a thabhairt ar ainmneacha coraí ar an tSionainn ag @ria.ie an tseachtain seo mar chuid den seimineár 'Water, Towns and Topography' de chuid #IHTA agus ‪@heritagecouncil.ie

Government report concludes Galway Ring Road will not solve city’s traffic problems connachttribune.ie/government-r...

Tha an leabhar A’ Ghàidhlig air Aghaidh na Tìre – Ainmean-àite ann an Iar-thuath na Gàidhealtachd air ais sa bhùth againn! ~ The book Gaelic in the Landscape – Place names in North West Scotland is back in our shop! 🤓 📖 buff.ly/ItlVHzL #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic

Beidh Scéal, forlíonadh nua Gaeilge, á fhoilsiú againn gach Máirt as seo amach. Welcome to Scéal, our weekly Irish language supplement.

Hot off the presses! I’m Delighted to have had the chance to discuss the use of #Gaeilge in #EarlyModern #Irish #towns and #parliaments. Míle buíochas @brendankanect.bsky.social for starting me on this path.

Happy to see my book in print! IGT V is the oldest surviving metrical tract of the Early Modern Irish period (13th/14th cent.), used to train students in poetry, language, and style. irishtextssociety.org/publications... Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!

And finally, before our afternoon excursions, Peter McNiven shares 'Place-Names of the Stirling area and Mentieth'. Carseland (flatland), Dumyat hill, Doune (dun), Dunblane (dol or dail, not dun, water-meadow). Cumbric, Gaelic, Scots boundary with Pictish, Gaelic, Scots en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumyat

Finally before coffee, Thomas Clancy of @uofglasgow.bsky.social speaks about 'Dark Waters and Bright: Place-Names of the Coalfield Communities'. The project will feed into Scottish place-name volumes ayr-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk

Next, Justin Ó Gliasain from Irish Place-Names Branch shares "Scottish Influence on Place-names in Inishowen and Raphoe, Co Donegal'. Language interactions - plenty to research further. Burns, mosses and more. Calfpickle - poss predicament? www.logainm.ie/en/

Followed by Aengus Ó Fionnagáin @unioflimerick.bsky.social 'The Schools Collection and minor place-names in Ireland' - sociolinguistic information gleaned. www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/scho...

First this afternoon is Sofia Evermalm-Graham @uofglasgow.bsky.social 'Dead men, martyrs and shipwrecks: death in Iona place-names'.

Finally this morning, Roibeard Ò Maolalaigh from @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 'The etymology of the place-name Stirling revisited'. Second element: could this be liä 'flood(ing)'? Verbal noun = all modern pronunciations/spellings can be derived from this. Sribliä!

John Baker from @namestudies.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social now speaks about 'Assembly place-names: some Spelthorny issues'. Governance through local assemblies - names preserved in DB hundreds/wapentakes + meeting mounds. Importance of trees? Recurrent compounds: assembly/speech mounds.

Next up is Jake King 'The names of the islands of Loch Lomond'. Grassom's 1817 map. Translations of Gaelic terms for visitors?

Some pics from our afternoon excursion to Dunblane Cathedral, with Dauvit Broun, Prof of Scottish History @uofglasgow.bsky.social, followed by Doune Castle with Peter McNiven.