Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule. Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Bígí linn! Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social! Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps. Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The latest volume from the CLIC project is in the Irish Times! www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... The article by PI Isabelle Torrance discusses Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity from the earliest mentions in Ireland to Ulysses.

Ar 5 Márta beidh mé in @ria.ie ag caint ar chnámha (!) ón 19ú céad, agus go háirithe ar an gcnámh seo thíos atá anois i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh👇

Nice to see some very cool images from my ‘Classicizing the Gaelic’ chapter on the visuality of Irish manuscripts included in this Irish Times write-up of the book Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity 👇

Mie dy akin dy bee yn chabdil shoh cheet magh dy gerrid! Good to see this chapter nearing publication! link.springer.com/book/9783662...

Edinburgh's LLC Commons later this week will hear a paper from Dr Christopher Lewin, MSCA Research Fellow in Celtic and Scottish Studies: 'Could we but get such a thing as an Erse Dictionary’: The Manx Bible (1748–75) in a pan-Gaelic context. #Manx #Gaelg #Gaelic llc.ed.ac.uk/llc-commons-...

Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done! #LámhscríbhinníGaeilge Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd

Nice to see some very cool images from my ‘Classicizing the Gaelic’ chapter on the visuality of Irish manuscripts included in this Irish Times write-up of the book Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity 👇

Nan MacKinnon, ‘Nan Eachainn Fhionnlaigh’ (1902–1982): her contribution to the School of Scottish Studies & her legacy 13 Feb, free online Nan MacKinnon provided a wealth of inherited Gaelic oral tradition – songs, tales, legends – & personal experience & observation llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

A massive act of self-harm.

Bha na thlachd còig iom-leabhar den Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland a thìodlaiceadh a dh’Ionad Naomh Moluag ann an Lios Mòr aig an deireadh seachdain.

Looking forward to speaking about Scottish #Gaelic and Irish literature and (material) culture *through* the lens of Romanticism and *as* a lens on Romanticism at this symposium in UCC on 19 February. We’ll be covering the Hebrides, the Caribbean, Sligo and Windsor Castle!

University of Edinburgh holds one 👇 of only three extant copies of Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh, the earliest book printed in Gaelic/Irish. The other two are in the British Library in London and The Morgan Library in New York! #Gàidhlig

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

A’ tilleadh a Lios Mòr a-màireach airson òraid mu Dhùghall MacNeacail agus a’ bhàrdachd aige lìbhrigeadh ann an Ionad Naomh Moluag (Taigh-taisgidh & Comann Eachdraidh an Eilein). #Gàidhlig #Argyll

Delighted that Prof Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Lecture, co-hosted by the departments of Scottish History and Celtic & Scottish Studies, on 26 March. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh 👇 hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...

Gaelic song poetry & British Empire conflicts 1874–1903 11 Feb @glasgow.ac.uk – free Humanities Lecture Series 2025–26: Dr @siminnes.bsky.social #Gaelic #C19 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/humanities...

Tha Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann a' sireadh Oifigear Gàidhlig is Dàimhean Coimhearsnachd

Comhghairdeas Natasha!!

3/3 ✒️ CF 23: Sagas, Poetry & Genealogies Dublin, 1745–47, by Seán Ó Laochadh. Fenian and Ulster Cycle tales, romantic adventures & historical lore. Poems by leading bardic poets and extensive Irish genealogical material. 🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...

Oifigear Gàidhlig ùr ga shireadh againn ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann. Cothrom airson togail air an obair mhòr a rinneadh bho chionn grunn bhliadhnaichean a thaobh leasachadh na Gàidhlig anns an oilthigh agus anns a' bhaile: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH784/g...

Nuair thuc’as an t-earach bídh an lá dol an síneadh …

Delighted that Prof Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Lecture, co-hosted by the departments of Scottish History and Celtic & Scottish Studies, on 26 March. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh 👇 hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...

Huge work to do on the experience of Irish-speaking emigrants to Britain, especially in the 19th century! An example of the untapped richness of the archive 👇

Laoch ar lár.

A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026 See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility: irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...

Our in-person research seminars this semester @ceilteachomn.bsky.social - come for the cutting-edge research, stay for the post-seminar spring rolls & potato wedges!

If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

...in the glossed Latin text. We made rather short shrift of Thurneysen’s non-committal idea that the double superlative suffix -imem has anything to do with dialectal variation. See for all this Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh’s @pomuirch.bsky.social 2018 article in Ériu (www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...).

The Uses of Romanticism @ucc.ie Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yen

Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done! #LámhscríbhinníGaeilge Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd

The volume Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity is now out! Available, open access, from the following link, the volume covers such topics as the early medieval Irish migrant scholars to Joyce’s Ulysses. With a foreword by Mary McAleese. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

Justine McCarthy spot-on on proposals for reform of IP family reunification: “To keep parents apart from their children for three additional years for no better reason than that you can is exactly what the Minister says it is not. It is simply cruel.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Sunday Miscellany: A Bird's Eye View, by Olivia O'Leary www.rte.ie/culture/2026...

"People guessed around 43.8% of people born outside of Ireland were availing of social housing compared to the real figure of 6.1%." www.thejournal.ie/immigration-...

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

Hvor er Birgitte Nyborg, når man har brug for hende? www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me

12 Jan 1635: d. Anne Cornwallis, the #Catholic Countess of #Argyll. Her signature here from Folger MSV.a.89. She caused her Presbyterian husband to convert to #Rome in 1618 and together they became significant patrons of #English Catholic clergy.

In a mediascape that sometimes seems to be largely populated by vegetables, Richard Chambers keeps proving himself to be an exceptional journalist.

In Writing Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie brings to light the long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa. Available January 20 (17 Mar UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #History #ReadUP

Tá ComharTaighde 11, an t-eagrán is mó go dtí seo, anois beo, a chlann. Ailt agus léirmheasanna scolártha ar chuile réimse de Léann leathan na Nua-Ghaeilge #Litríocht #Teanga #Lámhscríbhinní #Oideachas #Gàidhlig #DántaGrádha #Foilsitheoireacht #Filíocht #Stair: comhartaighde.ie

My review of Niall Ó Ciosáin's (excellent) book, Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900, seems to have appeared between Christmas and the New Year in The Scottish Historical Review: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...