Good to hear the Taoiseach express support for funding research in history and the humanities. Im nor sure that funding a post at one of the richest institutions in the world is the best way to achieve this... Missed opportunity to support history in post 92s in areas of historic Irish migration.

Very sorry to be missing what promises to be an excellent lecture by @aaron-griffith.bsky.social later this week in Oxford!

Ag súil go mór leis an gcomhdháil seo, in #Barbados an tseachtain seo chugainn, lá go leith ag caint ar Ghaeil na hAlban agus na hÉireann sna hIndiacha Thiar - idir stair agus litríocht. Ó ‘transport [na nÉireannach] go Jamaica’ sa 17ú C go dtí an file Gaeilge a raibh sclábhaithe aige sa 19ú C.

eManuSkript is a browser-based, modular platform for teaching and research in manuscript studies. By combining specialized apps with guided tutorials, eManuSkript brings together in one environment tools for image processing, layout analysis, annotation, and the study of material structures.

If you missed Enda Delaney's talk last week on 'The cognitive revolution in modern Ireland, 1850-1920', there's a recording available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pDc...

British Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has apologised for footage from Bloody Sunday being used in a social media clip to criticise a bill on legacy issues in Northern Ireland.

O'n pod diwetharaf "there is no Welsh literature worthy of the name" a brawddegau eraill fyddwch chi ddim yn disgwyl clywed gan @richardwynjones.bsky.social a @jerryhunter.bsky.social ! Ie, rydyn ni'n trafod Brad y Llyfrau Gleision! Ar @ambobdim ac yn eich ap podlediadau. #Cymraeg #Cymru

Eagarthóirí Nua ar Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies 📚 Tá áthas ar Sheansailéir Ollscoil na hÉireann, an tOllamh Michael Murphy, a fhógairt go bhfuil an tOllamh Regina Uí Chollatáin agus an tOllamh Caoimhín Ó Muirigh ceaptha ina gcomheagarthóirí ar Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies.

New Editors of Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies 📚 The Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Professor Michael Murphy, is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin and Professor Kevin Murray as the new co-editors of Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies.

Looking forward to hosting this small symposium at Barbados Museum & Historical Society in a few weeks, with some great colleagues from Scotland, Ireland, North America and the Caribbean!

Deis anseo do scoláirí na Gaeilge 👇

Absolute dereliction of duty by an MP: a major employer and driving force of local and national economy is not their ‘industrial focus’. Apparently the educating and training of doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, scientists, engineers, researchers…IS. NOT. THEIR. INUDSTRIAL. FOCUS.

A good summary why UK HE has ended up in such a mess. I’d also add the growth of a managerial layer who refuse to take any responsibility for things they are responsible for; fall in available research funding, which wastes huge amounts of labour; and the pointless hamster wheel of REF! 🫠

Also of interest to @bairishstudies.bsky.social, no doubt!

#OTD 132 years ago, Max Weinreich (1894–1969) was born 🤩 He was a dialectologist, sociolinguist, sociologist, literary translator, and specialist in Yiddish linguistics. He was also one of the founding figures of the YIVO Institute. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Athbhreithniú á dhéanamh ag Fondúireacht Nelson Mandela ar an úsáid a bhaineann Ollscoil na Gaillimhe as ainm Mandela tuairisc.ie/athbhreithni...

Our final Irish Studies seminar this semester will be on Monday 27 April at 4.30, when Enda Delaney will talk on 'The Cognitive Revolution in Modern Ireland, 1850-1920'. All welcome in-person or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Tagtha sa bpost inniu.

Our annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, jointly organised with the Irish Literary Society, will be given this year by Nollaig Ó Muraíle on 'James Hardiman and his manuscript collection in the British Library’ at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, on Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 7.30 p.m.

Horrendous! How can this be anything other than the end of UU: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Omeros, inscribed by Walcott. Reminder: If you’re going to buy books online, buy them from Oxfam.

An Béal Bocht.

The latest issue of Scottish Studies celebrates former editor John Shaw (also retired Senior Lecturer in Ethnology in the School of Scottish Studies at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social). 🧵 open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...

On 4/16, we're celebrating Natasha Sumner's new work, Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna (Princeton Uni Press, 2026) Joining Sumner for a discussion of Irish folklore are Geraldine Parsons (Uni of Glasgow), Ciara Ní Riain (Harvard), & Ray Cashman (Indiana Uni)

If this list demonstrates anything, it’s that the Arts and Humanities in Scotland are very, very poorly served by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

7 Apr 1637: Anthony Gernon #Irish #Franciscan ordained a priest in #Flanders #otd His Parrthas an Anma - paradise/garden of the soul -is a key devotional text as #Gaeilge, in #Irish printed by the friars on their press in #Leuven #Lobháin

Gabriel Rosenstock, duine de mhórscríbhneoirí na Gaeilge agus file ‘idirnáisiúnta’, ar shlí na fírinne

I share my thoughts from a debate at the University of Edinburgh Union. I didn’t catch the numbers of the vote, but yes, unsurprisingly my affirmative side won. Students get it @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @scottishgreens.org @younggreens.bsky.social nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

A piece of collage from a late 17th century Irish manuscript. A manuscript made in Dublin but grafted with an image of the crucifixion (probably) from a Netherlandish printed book.

Any excuse to share this magnificent Caravaggio which you can see for free in Dublin. The events of Holy Thursday: betrayal, alarm, despair, resignation and the artist holding a lantern to show the scene to the world.

A great reflection. Habermas--Structural Transformation in particular--hits different for pre-modernists (or for me, as a premodernist) and I found this a crisp piece on flaws that are evident when one reads without the specter of modernity in mind. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Comhghairdeas le @donnchalaw.bsky.social!

This 👇 Some of us also have a commitment to the production of scholarship in minoritized languages and without a serious rethink of what OA means in those contexts, one would be looking at the closure of (to us) important presses which are part of greater language ecosystem in need of support.

UCU Edinburgh STRIKE✊🩷

28 Mar 1627: The first dateable manuscript penned #otd by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, #Franciscan friar, scribe, historian, lexicographer & one compiler of the Annals of the Four Masters (His signature from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

When every university follows the same bad advice from the same consultants with agendas separate from their institutional mission ... they lose their identity as well as their independence. They lose the ability to play to their own strengths when the consultants' agenda causes systemic failure.

A wonderful John Bannerman Memorial Lecture this evening from Prof Fiona Edmonds on Dál Riata and Northumbria, 700-1000, co-hosted by the departments of Celtic & Scottish Studies and Scottish History.

Join us for the annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich lecture taking place at the People's Museum, Limerick, 14 April, from 6pm to 8pm to hear Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh's lecture on the subject of ‘Prudentia versus politia: bardic encouragement in a poem by Tadhg Mac Bruaideadha for the fourth earl of Thomond’.

A great manuscript for anyone teaching scribal contractions! 👇

Even the richest people in Scotland strongly support higher taxes on the wealthy, new polling has found ⬇️ www.thenational.scot/news/2...

Happening later this week 👇

While we're doing our "the problem with university teaching" takes, mine is that it should be more shocking that in basically every UK university, the crucial decisions about teaching and assessment are made centrally, by fiat, and are almost never guided by active teaching staff or subject experts.

I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.

One of the SCE’s goals is the support of young academics. For this reason, we offer two annual prizes: for the best PhD thesis in Celtic Studies; and for the best scholarly article by a pre-doc in Celtic Studies. 🔗 The deadline for the 2026 prizes is 31 March: celtologica.eu/gb/prizes/