Cén réinfhia is lú a bhfuil dúil ag dino-Santaí ann? Cóiméad

Support the Bill to Ban Fox Hunting in Ireland 🦊 Background & call to action here 👉 iwt.ie/support-the-... @banbloodsports.bsky.social @irishenvnet.bsky.social #BanFoxHunting

“You can’t spell Christmas without CMAT” is my best work this week so I have to post it here as well. Now.

Pátrún na Rinne "Bhíoch ana-phátrún anso fadó Lá San Nioclás, shiné an séigiú lá a dtugaimíd mí na Nollag air." D'itheadh daoine crúibíní muc agus d'óladh siad braon nó dhó... Ní mhaireann an tobar ná níl a fhios agam an bhfuil aon phics de. Ach tharraing Nioclás Breathnach cúpla léaráid de

Tá Bainisteoir faoi Oiliúint de dhíth i nGaeltacht na nDéise. Conradh 2 bl. Tacaíocht & oiliúint ar fáil. Scaipigí an scéal le bhur dtoil ar dhuine ar bith le Gaeilge & suim acu i bhforbairt teanga & pobail i gceantar Gaeltachta. CV & eolas: [email protected] / 083 445 5914 @udarasnag.bsky.social

5️⃣🎄🐦 Spáráil na circe fraoigh ar an bhfraoch, the heather chickens sparing the heather (unnecessary frugality) #ÉanAnLae #FéilireAidbhint

Tugann an Corpas gnáthóg, leaba dhearg, lonnachán ⁊ canachán uirthi

4️⃣🎄🐦 Súil na glasóige a chaitheamh ar dhuine, to cast wagtail eyes at someone (to make sheep’s eyes at someone) #ÉanAnLae #FéilireAidbhint

3️⃣🎄🐦 Chomh cinnte is atá gob ar phréachán, as sure as there is a beak on a rook (as sure as anything) #ÉanAnLae #FéilireAidbhint

youtube.com/watch?v=nH77... Cloiste ar an gcóisir cheoil

🌲3️⃣🎁 Blathmac’s Poems In 2013, Siobhán Barrett started on a PhD, supported by a @maynoothuniversity.ie Hume Scholarship and then by an IRC GOI Scholarship (@researchireland.ie), with the aim of creating a lexical database of the Poems of Blathmac. This soon turned into something much bigger. 📖

James Carney’s 1964 edition was quickly realised to be not of a sufficient standard. So Siobhán embarked upon a new edition. This has kept us going for twelve years and will do so for many more years. We edited the final stanzas about the end of the world (omitted by Carney), in Celtica 2019. 🔖

Is minic mé ag cúil-léasaíocht ar dhaoine agus piontaí á n-ól acu sa phóirse seo...tháinig an lá

Craidhps níl a fhios agam. Fíachairecht?

Tá spéis agam sa tslinnénacht anois áfach

I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.

Lots of associations are in a very difficult position because they are being relentlessly attacked by transphobes backed by massive amounts of money. The whole strategy is to bully these orgs into submission to make everyone else afraid to be inclusive. It's really sad.

coinnígí súil ar focloir.ie an tseachtain seo chugainn 🤠

2️⃣🎄🐦 Ní thig leis an ngobadán an dá thrá a fhreastal, the sandpiper can't attend to two beaches (one cannot be everywhere at once) #ÉanAnLae #FéilireAidbhint

Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages under the Scottish Languages Act. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An é pastae Peig na gCornach? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🎄🎅 Lundi 1️⃣ décembre Plaque votive de Vaison-la-Romaine RIIG (VAU-13-01) ; RIG (G153) IIe ou Ier siècle avant notre ère (sans trop de certitude)

Le sens est assez clair, Michel Lejeune et Pierre-Yves Lambert divergent sur quelques détails : Lejeune : « Segomaros fils de Villo(nos), citoyen de Nîmes, a dédié à Belesama ce lieu sacré. » Lambert « Segomaros fils de Villū, avec ses concitoyens de Nîmes, a dédié à Belesama ce lieu sacré. »

Le mot TOOUTIOUS (thème os ; masculin pluriel ; instrumental) renvoie à l’appartenance à un peuple. C’est la racine qu’on trouve dans 'Tuatha Dé Danann' en irlandais ou le mot 'tud' en breton ou même le français 'tout'.

tuairisc.ie/duais-buaite... Bhuaigh Savatia ‘Duais na hAfraice don Nuálaíocht’ agus an duaischiste mór dá aip nua ag searmanas a bhí ar siúl in Dakar sa tSeineagáil. Mar is léir, dearthóir ní aip a bhuaigh an duais.

🌲1️⃣🎁 Medieval Irish charms When asked for an inaugural lecture as Professor of Old and Middle Irish at @maynoothuniversity.ie (2012), I was desperately looking for a suitable topic. But after some deliberation, I chose one that I had already worked on before, namely Old Irish healing charms. 📖

The topic of Irish charms was recently also studied in Emer Kavanagh’s 2024 PhD thesis “Signs and Wonders” on aspects of ritual and magic in Medieval Ireland, funded by a GOI Doctoral Scholarship (@researchireland.ie). It is accessible online at mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19.... 🕯️

1️⃣🎄🐦 Chomh haerach le druid, as gay (carefree) as a starling #ÉanAnLae #FéilireAidbhint

Irish bird-lovers: the annual Irish Garden Bird Survey starts tomorrow 🥳 🙌 🎉 If you need a reason to keep going in the darkest days of winter, count birds. If you want to be a citizen scientist, count birds. If breakfasts are boring, count birds. Got a few spare moments? Just count birds.

Geimhreadh ceoch, Earrach reoch, Samhradh grianmhar is Fómhar breá biamhar. .i. Na trí cinn tosaigh do bheith mar sin do bheir Fómhar go biamhar (Seanfhocail na Muimhneach)

#FocalAnLae gallán - cloch seasamh

Palestine campaigning in Ireland and the UK has badly needed more union action and collective support of workers. That’s where the most power is, not with celebrity activists; the murder machine relies on labour. Stand with this Tesco worker who refused to handle Israeli goods

For context, these were due to be published in March 2025. The NZ govt prevented their publication because they intended to ban puberty blockers and the guidelines show they are safe, effective, and standard care internationally. Today they were released in an OIA putting them in the public domain.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

It looks like every Irish outlet (that I've seen so far) has just transcribed a wire services report about the Linehan trial that is *dripping* with anti trans bias, misgendering the victim, calling the teenage victim an "activist" but not Linehan, and eliding the fact that the victim was a child

🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦌 🎄 ❄️ Irish language TV channel @TG4 @Cula4_TG4 has co-produced a new animated Christmas film in collaboration with @BBCNI and Welsh language station @S4C in a first-of-its-kind collaboration. https://bit.ly/48nft5y

@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️ www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

absolutely horrific story, and belies the misogyny inherent in so much anti-trans sports stuff: the absolute disbelief that a girl or woman could be just be great at something, and the assertion that there's only one way for girls and women to look the poor child could be scared off playing

Colún an lae inniu m.independent.ie/seachtain/ai...

www.rte.ie/news/nuacht/... Leabhar nua dhátheangach, scéalta ón mBriotáinis aistrithe ag an gCadhnach agus scéal leis aistrithe sa treo eile.

Bluey has arrived at Cardiff Airport to launch the Welsh language version of the hit global television series

#FocalAnLae adhbha - abode, lair

A big deal. Those north-south connections on the island of Ireland continue, albeit slowly.

tuairisc.ie/la-stairiuil... Cé atá ag polaitiú na Gaeilge dáiríre?

Good see our Museum of Natural History has very up to date exhibits! Showing how we’ve changed and continue to change as a nation/culture!

On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

The A to Z of Whisky Place-Names: Landscape, Language & Invention An do ghabh thu iongnadh riamh mu na h-ainmean-àite a tha a’ nochdadh air botail uisge-beatha Albannach? buff.ly/LX3ULfz Have you ever wondered about the place-names that appear on Scotch whisky bottles? buff.ly/Ulz2Bvq