An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

i mo chleamaire faoi dheireadh! great day @nmireland.bsky.social with our #ethnology students, hosted by my former student Tiernan Gaffney, Asst. Keeper Folklife. Met Pádraig Ó Ruairc, tried on a strawboy costume he made, and watched him donate it to the collection! #folklore #mumming #BuachaillíTuí

Maidin inniu | Madainn an diugh | this morning… talking about displacement and loss through entangled ontologies of human and more-than-human being and endangerment in the North Atlantic #dúthchas #oireas #seanchas

Walking with lemurs… lemur.duke.edu/protect/sava...

Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson on ‘Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles’. Tuesday 1 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-sau...

We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...

Chonaic mé an rón glas seo ar a Life in aice le Droichead Grattan tráthnóna inné… spotted this grey seal on the Liffey up past the Grattan Bridge yesterday afternoon! 🦭

Geabhróg ag iascaireacht ag béal na Dothra i gCeantar na nDugaí… a tern fishing at the mouth of the Dodder in Dublin’s Docklands…

Gaelic singer Mairi MacMillan, from South Uist, sent me this gorgeous song about the skylark, the uiseag, as a symbol of hope 🤍🎶 mairimacmillan.bandcamp.com/track/uiseag... Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...

My latest post on Substack; an attempt to make sense of what it means to be a parent in a world convulsing with crisis 💔 Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope. open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...

Opening keynote of #nefk2025, Antti Lindfors on science and nsture imitation in contemporary self-care

Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr, taobh a-muigh fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla. […] Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.

Delighted to announce our new website www.hiddenheritages.ai/en. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. It really is a treasure trove of stories in Gàidhlig, Irish and English. Enjoy! @fsg-dcu.bsky.social @gaois.bsky.social

Canny Craw | An Fheannag Fhoghlaimte | Collegiate Crow #OilthighObarDheathain #UniversityOfAberdeen #SIEF2025

Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future:

Tús maith le mí an Mheithimh ag bualadh leis na lachíní seo i bPáirc Hoirbeaird | a nice start to June meeting these ducklings in Herbert Park | Deagh thoiseach dhan Òg-mhìos a’ coinneachadh leis na lachagan seo ann am Pàirc Hoirbeaird

In recognition of his tireless advocacy for folklore and understanding the human experience, pioneering ethnologist Professor Henry Glassie received an honorary degree from @ucddublin.bsky.social last week 🎻🎶 Read more about the ceremony & celebration www.ucd.ie/artshumaniti...

#Wrensday morning commute started with salutations from my neighbour Troglodytes troglodytes - #dreathandonn #dreóilín #thekingofallbirds 🪶

Gur h-iomadh caochladh tighinn air an t-saoghal / 'S ro-bheag a shaoil mi nuair bha mi thall… An car a fhuair mi cha b'ann gum bhuannachd / Tighinn thar a' chuain air a' chuairt bha meallt’ -Am Bàrd Mac’illEathain #AChoilleGhruamach #TheGloomyForest #ÒrainGhàidhlig #Displacement #Migration #cianalas

Wings like whispers, eyes like fire. Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way” - #DrMLKJr … ged ’s beag tha ’n drannd-eun, ’s mòr tha cumhachd a chridhe… although the hummingbird is small, its heart’s force is mighty…

New research into the fossil record of Macaronesia has uncovered a formerly rich diversity of gadfly petrel species that have mostly disappeared from the North Atlantic:

“What? What? Where? Where? See it! See it!” 🪶 🎶 #Birdsong #Mimesis #IndigoBunting #MoodIndigo #Birding

Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.

ANSOC's Kate Kanne, with @helenebenkert.bsky.social & Camille M.L. Vo Van Qui are very pleased & proud to announce that our edited volume "Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History" from the amazing @sidestone.bsky.social is officially published open access! www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇

Les vautours et les pigeons… De acciptribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant… war and peace…

Moments in nature 🍃 📹 @whistlingjoe.bsky.social

As I was trying to align this statue with the moon, a night heron landed on it. The same had happened a couple of years ago. Different statue, but same cemetery and, who knows, perhaps same bird. St Louis Cemetery No. 3, New Orleans

A liuthad soitheach a dh’fhàg ar dùthaich le sgiathan geala a’ toirt Chanada orra. Tha iad mar neapaigearan ’nar cuimhne ’s an sàl mar dheoirean, ’s anns na croinn aca seòladairean a’ seinn mar eòin air gheugan. Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn, “Na h-Eilthirich” (“The Exiles”) canongate.co.uk/books/193-mo...

A flock of weekend sightings as a mothers’ day bouquet… 🪶

Though very common around Shetland, this smart looking Red-throated Diver is the only leucistic individual I've ever encountered. #SuperSeabirdSunday #YellBirding #Shetland

“You ain’t never been blue ‘til you’ve had that mood indigo…” 🪶 🎶

Save the date: ISFNR 2026 - Nature(s) in Narrative will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 13th to 16th

In 1988 Sandy Ives and I visited a self-taught painter and sculptor from northern Maine. I took some photos and will post a half-dozen of them this week, one a day. Here on day two is another symbolic painting, a peaceable kingdom after one of Edward Hicks' paintings. #photography #folklore #folkart

In 1988 Sandy Ives and I visited a self-taught painter and sculptor from far northern Maine. I took some photos and will post a half-dozen of them this week, one a day. Here on day four are some of his small, carved pieces, left inside a cabinet shelf. #photography #folklore #folkart

Here is an otter snoot to start your day.

Met my first charismatic Long-Tailed Tits on post work stroll @ucddublin.bsky.social… so busy flitting to forage the canopy made 📸 challenging… #CailleachBheagAnEarbuill in #Gàidhlig = #WeeCailleachOfTheTail; #MeantánEarrfhada i n #Gaeilge; #Mumruffin & #Bumbarrel in English #folklore #onomastics 🪶

Like the bairns of Falkirk, ye mind naithing but mischief. —from Allan Ramsay’s A COLLECTION OF SCOTS PROVERBS (1737) WARNING: “Some amang the gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse expressions.”

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

"Gug-ùg’ ars a’ chuthag latha buidhe Bealltainn” (cried the cuckoo on yellow Beltane day) dasg.ac.uk/blog/249/en 🌼

A recent Canadian Geographic article highlights the Chignecto/Sikniktewaq Partnership, a collaborative initiative aimed at protecting one of Canada's most vital wildlife corridors, of which Birds Canada is proudly a part. Read the full article to learn more: tinyurl.com/pm8x2v8z

"In present times, we are increasingly witnessing a loss of life, especially among animals and plants" .INS Professor Mairéad Nic Craith @thinkuhi.bsky.social published in Narrating the Multispecies World open access tinyurl.com/3p8jy94b @adammarkham.bsky.social

May Eve Vibes… Fonn Oíche Bhealtaine…

Oooh the programme is out! #nefk2025 #ethnology #folklore

Upcoming online event by The Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, 6 May, 7 pm GMT: 'Gaelic and Scots: Cultural Connections and Inspirations in the 20th Century'. Talks on Douglas Young, George Campbell Hay, William Neill, translation, and the magazine Gairm. Free but ticketed.

Just over a month left to submit your entries to the 2025 Doc Rowe Award for non-print media publications. Closing date 31 May 2025. For more details see folklore-society.com/awards/the-d...

I’ve mentioned on here that my 16 yo daughter is dialling down schoolwork overwhelm by making linocuts. Here’s her latest design:

Wednesday 30 April 2025 10 am CET, at Université de Bretagne-Occidentale & on ZOOM: 'Radical Scottish Gaelic Magazines in the Twentieth Century and Contacts with Brittany' by @poncarova.bsky.social, hosted by Héritage et Création dans le Texte et l'Image & Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique.