There's no way to quite get it across in English but I love the saint Colum Cille's description of a young warrior as 'eólach cech ernmaiss'. It's like, 'learned in all forms of death-by-iron'

I'm not saying it's difficult to find full-time academic posts in my fields of expertise, but--

One phrase in the English language stands out as for its exceptional versatility. In this essay I will--

Normal family whatsapp chat

Why is girls' night so hard to organise

It’s Walter Benjamin’s yahrzeit. He was a philosopher who chose to die whilst fleeing the Nazis in 1940. He is the only historical figure I *miss*, irrationally, as though he was a friend I suddenly lost.

Re: the Charlie Kirk murder in the USA: If you're not familiar with Horst Wessel, now would be a great time to look it up.

The documents are Napoleonic era, but I nonetheless hear this in Picard's voice and expect tha next word to be 'stardate'

Unexpected delight at the names for different classifications of gunship

Someone should start a vegan shop and call it Seitanic Panic

www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/i-san... A poet I hadn't heard of before today

People don't talk nearly enough about how cute 16th Century Witch's Familiars were.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Best team shirt ever, such a vibe

Friends are doing a romantic weekend away to learn how to forge swords, and, may I just say, that is absolute GOALS ⚔️

The book manuscript is handed in to the publisher! And the research assistants have both received carrots as per their contract.

Omg is TikTok just a new version of tableaux performance, eg St Edna’s kids doing skits

This might be my favourite book of 2025, it’s such a fascinating and beautifully written read

Packing for a trip: 15 minutes of throwing clothes haphazardly into a bag followed by 1.5 hours agonising over how to limit myself to a max of one book per day 😭

Look at this long boi! [Seanchus Mór, TCD] www.isos.dias.ie/TCD/TCD_MS_1...

This was not the thing I was searching my old notebook for, but nonetheless—

Oddly reassuring that Constance Markievicz was scared to talk to girls [source: H Moloney, Witness statement 391, Bureau of Military History]

The only true romance, truly: SiÞen þe sege and þe assaut watz sesed at Troye, Þe borȝ brittened and brent to brondeȝ and askez, Þe tulk þat þe trammes of tresoun þer wroȝt Watz tried for his tricherie, þe trewest on erthe

My student just called Marie de France’s Lanval a passenger princess (his fairy lover rescues him on horseback by pulling him up behind her) and I will never see that knight’s name again without thinking of this 😂

I was thinking about how Jewish demons just aren’t EVIL the way Christian demons are. And I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s because they often have chicken feet. Just TRY being menacing whilst scuffling up to someone all tippity-tappity on little chicken feet

This ending of the Welsh Dream of Maxen Wledig in the Mabinogion is so….unsettling

2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely. www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...

I just finished reading an obscure 13th-century Arthurian text in which Lancelot is Jewish and the holy grail is a soup-kitchen charity dish.🤯

There’s something about the matter of fact storytelling here that really amuses me. Source is a 13th c Arthurian romance written in Italy.

Mark Twain, describing Queen Victoria’s Jubilee procession, 1897 [source: Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory]

‘Sometimes it is harder to live for a cause than to die for it’. -Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington [source: British Militarism as I have Known It (1917)]

Dán ó _Technology in Irish Literature and Culture_

Did you know that in WWII in Britain and America, military parachutes and silk maps were prized on the home front for their potential as clothing (usually underwear) due to fabric rationing? Well, I impulsively bought a WWII Air Force map…

'All minds – more particularly untutored minds – hate doubt. They crave for something to cling on to, to swear by, to feel like shedding the last drop of their blood for...

Pleased to announce that this year's Oxford O'Donnell Lecture will be given by Prof Ronald Hutton on medieval and modern representations of the Irish Morrigan, 2 May, 5pm, in the English Faculty, St Cross Road

Let's sail away over the seas with Noah on his beautiful longship ark. Bodleian Library MS. Junius 11; 'Cædmon Manuscript'; 1000 CE; England; p.66 @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Haggadah highlight (from the Velveteen Rabbi)

I would love to learn more about the the Book of Hy-Brasil. '[T]he text is from the Latin Tacuini aegritudinum... www.ria.ie/collections/...