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...

The pre-print of my chapter on the phonology and orthography of Gaulish in the Gallo-Greek inscriptions (2nd-1st c. BC) www.academia.edu/144217967/La... A section of ch. "4. Approches linguistiques et anthroponymiques des inscriptions en langue gauloise" by Coline Ruiz Darasse, Dagmar Wodtko... /1

My contribution to Maths Weeks 2025 (www.mathsweek.ie/2025/), I will part of a panel speaking on "Matamaitic as Gaeilge" at Uni Galway, 12 October. My talk will be on "How to conceptualise numbers in Old Irish".

"Lá na Matamaitice as Gaeilge" (12 Deireadh Fómhair) in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe @uniofgalway.bsky.social, socraithe ag @aonghusoha.bsky.social, Fintan Hegarty, Leo Creedon. Clár ag: etim.ie/la-na-matama... Agus mise féin ag caint faoi uimhreacha sa tSean-Ghaeilge agus conas a choincheaptar iad.

Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition 🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00 📍 NMI, Kildare St Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30) Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts 🎟️ Free admission museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

etim.ie/la-na-matama... Tá cruth ag teacht ar Lá na Matamatice in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Súil agam duine nó beirt a fheiceáil ann! Go fíorúil ar a laghad...

How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland. Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery, explains Viktoriia Krivoshchekova @dias.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Tá Ollscoil Mhá Nuad sa tóir ar speiceas neamhchoitianta: daoine le scileanna ríomhaireachta + Gaeilge + bainistíochta. www.teg.ie/nuacht/oifig...

David Britain, Paul Foulkes, David Willis and I have been awarded 2.5M CHF by SNSF & AHRC for CURLEW – the first major survey of English dialects in England & Wales in 75+ years. Starts: 2026 – posts to come. Outputs: papers + a public dialect atlas 🗺️ 📸 Drafting the proposal, Bern, Jan 2025.

Irish is not the most difficult language that I have ever tried to learn. It makes sense grammatically. There’s a few small things here and there but overall, it’s definitely not the worst. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Delighted to have this post published by the @irishhumanities.bsky.social, where I discuss some of the terminology surrounding disability in medieval Ireland! www.irishhumanities.ie/news-events/...

We are excited to publish the first blog in our Emerging Scholar series 'The Good, The Bad, and The Blemished: Disability Terminology in Medieval Ireland,' by @djbirishhistory.bsky.social who is conducting a @researchireland.ie funded PhD @muahi.bsky.social

Join us at the Royal Irish Academy on 2 and 3 October for a two-day conference exploring all aspects of the Book of Lecan. Book your tickets now: www.ria.ie/events/libra...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 2, Leabhar Mór Leacain/the Great Book of Lecan. Compiled in A.D. 1397-1418, it contains a large amount of genealogical material, as well as historical, biblical and hagiographical material.

Daoine ó thar lear ag foghlaim na Gaeilge, sa @irishtimes.com Dé Sathairn: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Tabhair isteach! Tá sé níos éasca ná iarracht a thabhairt air.

Tarbh (OIr. tarb) is the genitive plural. The genitive singular is tairbh/tairb. You don't necessarily need an article in old placenames. Here's the entry from e-Hogan (pp. 1079-80 = Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goidelicum, digitised by Donnchadh Ó Corráin c. 2015). It is online at... /1

education.ec.europa.eu/ga/focus-top... Lá Eorpach na dTeangacha atá ann. Go maire ilteangachas!

Yes. So much of this would be clear academic misconduct or negligence if only people hadn't been led to believe investor money is a foolproof loophole for laws, norms, and accountability.

Whatever be the worth of this hypothesis regarding the Book of Kells, Portmahomack in Scotland is the place that is associated with the brilliant contemporary manuscript artist and parchment illustrator Thomas Keyes. For some of his art, see: bsky.app/profile/davi... @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social

Is the Book of Kells Pictish? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Our CEO & Registrar Dr. Eucharia Meehan spoke to journalist Sean Duke @sciencespinning.bsky.social last month, about 85 years of DIAS, and our plans for the future. Check out the article in today's @irishtimes.com or the link below #DIASdiscovers #DIAS85 www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Gen Alpha are mad about the Words on the Wave exhibition @nmireland.bsky.social. Visit while you can. Only one month left!

Ní aistriúchán beacht atá ann. D'aistreoinn: An séad/cosán a théim téann Críost é. An ceantar a mbeidh (?) mé ann, bíodh gan dúchan.

Here is the link to the new Ogham in 3D page about I-KER-055, the Kilmalkedar stone: ogham.celt.dias.ie/I-KER-055. ANM doesn't mean "soul", but "name" or "inscription", so it's the "inscription for Máel-Inbir son of Brocán". The form of the language is very late, perhaps already early Old Irish.

Today is the feast of Adomnán of Iona, d. 704. Here are 3 copies of the same text, the opening of the preface to Adomnán's Life of Columba: Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek Gen. 1, possibly copied in Adomnán's lifetime; & St. Gall 555 & Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 6341, both later 9c. 🧵

Tír gan bratach...

Great publication news! The volume "Écrire sur la pierre en langue gauloise", edited by Dr Coline Ruiz Darasse (Université Bordeaux Montaigne @ubmontaigne.bsky.social), has appeared. It contains my first article in French "La phonologie et la graphie en alphabet grec".

And then I make a whole-ass career over that hashtag of Mistakes Were Made ;)

Dhá phost á bhfógairt ag Lárionad na Gaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie (Spriocdháta 12 DF 2025): 1. Oifigeach Forbartha Teicneolaíochta TEG: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr... 2. Bainisteoir Tionscadail Snas.ie: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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.

Greannán nua dátheangach "Beo agus Raja" www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Ní bheidh do leithéid arís ann - agus is leor sin.

#OTD 125 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900–1940) was born 🤩 Expert on Celtic studies, particularly on Irish language and mythology. One of the few female scholars, she attended the First International Congress of Linguists in 1928. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

PROTO and Emma Spurgin Hussey won a prize 🤗 shorturl.at/e05Zm

Hello everyone! See the new conference here @maynoothuniversity.ie with the @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! The google link below is our registration form, we look forward to seeing you here!! forms.gle/8katSS8HZSuf...

I seem to have written a buke

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️ More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Beidh mé ag caint faoin scéalaíocht agus ag insint cúpla scéal anocht (6pm) i gColáiste Phádraig Mhaigh Nuad mar chuid d'imeachtaí Oíche Chultúir. Más spéis le daoine bladar i bhfoirm thraidisiúnta 😅

etim.ie/la-na-matama... @fsg-dcu.bsky.social @ucdgaeltacht.bsky.social

m.independent.ie/seachtain/na... Tá na heagrais Ghaeilge ag iarraidh ar gach duine ar suim leo dul chun cinn na Gaeilge páirt a ghlacadh sa mhórshiúl agus beidh busanna ag teacht ó ceann ceann na tíre. ⭕

𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 16 Before I continue our ongoing series about how to define and to identify dialects in Old Irish, a news item about other things the DiⒶgnostic team is doing at the moment. In early summer, I received a query about how to access basic information in the Corpus PalaeoHibernicum... /1

Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminars this semester at Maynooth. In person only, but everyone is welcome. @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Smaointe Fánacha Aonghusa: Lá na Matamatice, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, Domhnach 12ú Deireadh Fómhair Scéal le scaipeadh! aonghus.blogspot.com/2025/09/la-n...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, an Astronomical Tract. It is an Irish translation of medieval Latin texts. The astronomical tract is based on a medieval Latin version of a work by Messahalah, a Jew of Alexandria who wrote in Arabic c. 815.

'Ireland: Land of 1,000 Welcomes?' will take place this Friday, 19th Sept. as part of Culture Night 2025 activities. It will be held in the AHI Seminar Rm 1.33, First floor of Iontas from 5:30 - 7pm. For any further information please contact [email protected]

Bígí linn d'Oíche Chultúir 2025 (19 Meán Fómhair) i músaem Choláiste Phádraig 6–8 pm. Pléifidh Dubhán Ó Longáin, Stiofán Ó Briain agus Ré Ó Laighléis litríocht agus scéalaíocht na Gaeilge agus déanfaidh Nada Ní Chuirrín damhsa ar an sean-nós, le ceol ó Chian Ó Braonáin. @maynoothuniversity.ie

Níl tú id aonar. Tá gach duine tuirseach díot freisin.

D’aon oghaim - tuairisc aonghus.eu/ogham.html @davidstifter.bsky.social @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social #OG_H_AM

Lá Fhéile Naoimh Chormaic sona daoibh go léir. Happy St Cormac's Day to ye all. Lá naomhpátrún sanasaíochta na Gaeilge, Cormac mac Cuilennáin, atá inniu ann. Ar an ábhar sin, postálaim sanasaíocht nua don fhocal MUCOI (focal na Gaeilge Ársa a fhaightear go minic ar inscríbhinní oghaim). /1