Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh! ☘️ Here is a snippet of the 13th century Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', a narrative in which ancient warriors from Finn mac Cumaill's warrior-band, the fían, recount hundreds of stories to St Patrick. Even his guardian angels approved! #StPatrick

Still time to register for tomorrow's book launch for An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. bsky.app/profile/josh...

🚨 Techno-optimism reduces willingness to address climate change 🚨 In a new preprint, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @fdabl.bsky.social, and I examined the causal effect of techno-optimist beliefs on the willingness to contribute to addressing climate change. 🔗 Read the paper: lnkd.in/eE847_jK

Earlier this week, Peadar sat down to talk with Éanna Ó Caollaí from the Irish Times, check it out: www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...

Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social amárach! Tuilleadh eolais anseo: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... Agus foilsíodh alt san Irish Times De Luain seo caite! www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Please join us for the conversation and celebration! Learn more about the volume here: brill.com/display/titl... Thanks to CSANA; to Catherine, John @jdmccafferty.bsky.social, and Máire; to Brill @dgb-mem.bsky.social; BC Irish Studies @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social and all the contributors!

The first day of sun in a long time and a lovely surprise in the post: the latest ZCP with my investigation of Reeves Agallamh manuscripts... and discovery of another witness of the early Acallam. 🕵🏻‍♀️ @disappearingtext.bsky.social

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👇

Happening tonight, 5pm Irish time! Come to learn more about the early Acallam na Senórach and the new manuscript I've found... Stay for later rewriting techniques and scribal features 👀 @disappearingtext.bsky.social

🎇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...

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...

Mar eolas, foilseofar alt eile liom go luath, alt dar teideal ‘The Tuatha Dé in the Tales and Lays of the Later Fionn Cycle’. Bígí ag faire amach dó ;)

Comhghairdeas Natasha!!

🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET. 💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social To get the link, please contact [email protected] 🔗

Acallam talk alert! 🔔 Register at [email protected] to get the link to Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's talk, next Monday 9th February at 18:00 CET. @ninacnock.bsky.social will discuss some of the Disappearing Text project's work so far, and the (many) different versions of Acallam na Senórach..!

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...

Aiste 8 just published with articles by Duncan Sneddon, Mary Low & Michel Byrne, @macailpein.bsky.social and one by myself. clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

Deadline for contributions to the next issue of Aiste, Celtic and Gaelic's peer-reviewed, open access journal, is 28 February 2026 clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

🚨Save the date!🚨A conference on Acallam na Senórach will be held on 21-22 August 2026, in University College Cork. Programme to follow. Further information will be available in due course at www.ucc.ie/en/disappear....

🚨Save the date!🚨 Tionólfar comhdháil ar Acallam na Senórach ar an 21-22 Lúnasa 2026, i gColáiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. Clár ar ball. Beidh tuilleadh eolais le fáil ar www.ucc.ie/en/disappear... i gceann na haimsire.

The Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect today - but its significance will only become clear over time. It's a complex, incrementalist measure and much depends on how it's implemented. My analysis here bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

Really happy to have this article out in print officially!! All Acallam enthusiasts will be interested in it, I hope 👀 This article brings important new things to light regarding the textual and manuscript transmission of Acallam / Agallamh texts..!

The 2nd major contribution to our rethinking of the Acallam's transmission - comhghairdeas leat @ninacnock.bsky.social! A huge moment in the study of this work!

Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026 www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.

This is an important addition to the scholarship on the textual transmission of the Acallam - an area of study that is expanding at a dizzying rate, often courtesy of @disappearingtext.bsky.social project members (stay tuned for further publication news from @ninacnock.bsky.social!)

The 20th Annual Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture will be given on 2/12/25 by Prof. William Lamb on 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' Details and registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-tickets-1969148250425?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1

Thèid an 20mh Òraid Bhliadhnail mar Chuimhneachan air Aonghas MacMhathain a lìbhrigeadh 2/12/25 leis an Oll Uilleam Lamb air 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' www.eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-tickets-1969148250425?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&keep_tld=1

www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... - Short-term research fellowships (1-4 weeks) available in the University of Glasgow Library, to work with our wonderful Archives and Special Collections. Do apply if this would suit you - a number of Celticists have been successful in the past.

🚨Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture next Thursday! 🦅 Dr Emma Nic Chárthaigh (University College Cork) will speak on "Intertextual weavings in the Colloquy between Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill". 🗓️ 27th November, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 6pm 🔗 www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...

Our annual seminar jointly organised with @ucc.ie is happening this Saturday in the Venice of the North. Full details at irishtextssociety.org/events. This year we’re looking at The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore.

It's such a privilege to be working on this project with brilliant colleagues. Please follow along if you are interested in #CelticStudies, medieval literature, #medievalsky, approaches to editing and translation, Finn mac Cumhaill and more ...

For people interested in translation and human rights

I presume that the game wouldn't work if this said 'draw four CATS' but could you consider that alteration please @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ?

So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!

Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map. Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd. datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...

I'm delighted to be moderating this discussion tomorrow evening - hope to see you there!

Yes! This... gemAI violates almost every element of academic and scientific integrity we claim to uphold. I don't know how people square this circle.

Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested). euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577

An dòchas gum faic mi ann an Glaschu sibh!

I'm glad to read this (thank you @downham.bsky.social) - I've been disturbed by the lack of interest in the environmental cost of Generative AI in my own institution (or at least in the conversations that I've been in), even when the focus is supposedly on responsible and ethical adoption of GenAI

Really looking forward to this event! Can't wait to hear three wonderful critics of early Irish/Gaelic literature in conversation.

News from the European Celtic Congress Bonn 2025: After a very long gestation process, the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟓) has now appeared in printed form. You cannot imagine what relief this means for my fellow editors and me, and for the authors.

Obair Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig, Oilthigh Ghlaschu @uofglasgow.bsky.social www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/gaelic-d... #gaelic #gaidhlig

One month to go. The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social. @researchireland.ie @ukri.org /1

Come and join us in Oxford! We're advertising for a two-year full-time departmental lecturer in Medieval Irish Language and Literature. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Re-posting my upcoming lecture details - plus I am now reasonably confident that it will include a newly-identified early medieval source for the Moray Firthlands, which is quite exciting.

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇

Thig a dh’obair còmhla rinn! Tha Faclair na Gàidhlig a’ sireadh Oifigear Conaltraidh: www.obraichean.co.uk/job/faclair-... Le taic bho @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social