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

So glad to see these - from my colleague Dr Simon Taylor - are now available online ...

Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky

Really pleased to have been promoted to Professor of Medieval Irish Language & Literature today; thanks to many for encouragement along the way | air leth toilichte gu bheil mi nam Ollamh Cànan & Litreachas Gàidhlig nam Meadhan- Aoisean bho an-diugh. Fada nur comain airson ur brosnachadh.

**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.

CFP: New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies 2026 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies May 14–16, 2026, Kalamazoo, MI This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies.

Shape new book on Iona place-names! Tell us what you want to see in a coffee table book and what you'd like to learn. Share your ideas with us here or email us - we want to hear from you! #Iona Pictured: Cobhain Cuildich 'secluded hollow' (also known as The Hermit's Cell)

Agallamh iontach le Nina ó @scs-dias.bsky.social 👏Cheiltighhttps://m.independent.ie/seachtain/bean-as-an-bhriotain-a-bhfuil-a-croi-istigh-i-scealta-arsa-na-heireann/a688672846.html

***SANAS OBRACH | JOB AD*** Celtic & Gaelic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is advertising a full-time, fixed-term lectureship in #CelticStudies. Application deadline: 23 July. I'd be delighted to chat to anyone considering an application - my email is in the ad www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Nach cuir thu do bheachdan thugainn air a’ phost-dealain seo [email protected] ro dheireadh na seachdain (29/6/2025). (5/5)

Tha sinn a’ sireadh bheachdan air cùisean gràmair (is litreachaidh) far a bheil feum air barrachd stiùiridh no mìneachaidh. (4/5) Cò an cuspair gràmair (no litreachaidh) sa Ghàidhlig a bu mhath leatsa barrachd stiùiridh fhaicinn air a shon?

Pròiseact Ùr Gàidhlig A’ togail air pròiseactan a thàinig roimhe, tha LEACAN 2 a’ dol a thoirt seachad barrachd stiùiridh air cùisean gràmair is litreachaidh sa Ghàidhlig far a bheil mì-chinnt. (3/5)

🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal. 🔗 journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce...

📢 Brief reminder that we now have *additional* tickets as well as *online only* tickets!

An Irish-language poetry event in Edinburgh at the end of the month: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-poetry...

✨ Registration is OPEN & FREE for the (Re)Creating Stories conference to be held 23 & 24 May 2025 @scs-dias.bsky.social. Fantastic programme (see below)! 🚨 Please register by 13th May! 🔗 Tuilleadh eolais + clárú: www.dias.ie/2025/04/16/r... #AcademicSky

Looking forward to tomorrow's Matheson Lecture from @elvabjohnston.bsky.social - the highlight of the Celtic & Gaelic year! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mathes.... (too late to remove the typo unfortunately ...)

TONIGHT Interactive workshop: Iona’s place-names, songs and more Location: Iona Village Hall Time: 7pm

Post fógraithe do Léachtóir le Gaeilge (An Léann Ceilteach), lánaimseartha, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Tuilleadh eolais: féach www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/ agus "Academic Vacancies". [Job for Lecturer in Irish (Celtic Studies) at the University of Galway.]

Greatly looking forward to the inaugural lecture tomorrow of my colleague and friend Katherine Forsyth - I understand that the in-person tickets are all gone (or almost so) but there might still on on-line tickets available: www.eventbrite.com/e/humanities... #CelticStudies

There are still a few in-person tickets left for Prof. Deborah Hayden’s John Bannerman Lecture at the University of Edinburgh tomorrow: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-banne... Anyone wishing to join the lecture virtually can email Emily.Ward(at)ed.ac.uk for the link.

Cú Chulainn is mad! #StopDeSloop

comhghairdeas leat @ninacnock.bsky.social - delighted to see that this is out!

Bidh an clàs againn bhon Cùrsa Bogaidh aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu air an telly a-nochd, air An Là, 8f. Pìos mu dheidhinn Gàidheil òga aig a bheil #Gàidhlig, agus agallamh le mo charaid Tanith, fhad 's a tha sinn uile a' seinn anns an t-seòmar-clàs againn! Tha an sgeul aig www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...

It was such a pleasure to co-supervise this - thank you @dimitrafimi.bsky.social for inviting me into the project! Very proud of Kris today!

UofG, in partnership with @glasgowcc.bsky.social have launched Gaelic Connect, a digital platform connecting Glasgow's #Gaelic community. Find cèilidhs, learning groups & more at your fingertips. @sngaidhlig.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Tha UofG, ann an com-pàirteachas le @glasgowcc.bsky.social, air làrach digiteach Gaelic Connect fhoillseachadh, a' ceangal coimhearsnachd #Gàidhlig Ghlaschu. Faigh cèilidhean, buidhnean ionnsachaidh & barrachd aig bàrr do mheòir. @sngaidhlig.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Tha an ath choinneamh gu bhith againn oidhche Dhiardaoin sa tighinn (13 An Gearran), 6.30f, Leabharlann Mitchell, leis an Dr Michel Byrne, Oilthigh Ghlaschu. Bidh an Dr Byrne a' bruidhinn air a' cheann: "'Co-chruinneach' 1831: Duanaire Peairteach". Bidh fàilte bhlàth oirbh uile!

Beidh an Scoil Samhraidh sa Léann Ceilteach ar siúl arís i mbliana & is féidir clárú fós. Spriocdháta 31 Márta! Tá tuilleadh eolais le fáil sa nasc thíos. The Celtic Studies Summer School will take place this year & registration is open until 31st March! Further information available in the link👇

Some #loanwords from Middle #Irish / #Gaelic into Old #Norse Showing cultural influences went both ways in the Viking Age: Schulze-Thulin, Britta. (2021). NOTES ON THE OLD AND MIDDLE IRISH LOANWORDS IN OLD NORSE Nowele Vol. 39, September 2001, 53-84.

This is the poem I referred to in the Irish Times piece, which may be unfamiliar to some people here.

Off Lindisfarne the waves shiver like monks at their ablutions. Under high horizontals of ice-cloud, the sky scrubbed clean as a dairy. The train darts north, hungry as a tongue… —Alison Fell, “January, 5” from LIGHTYEAR (Smokestack Books, 2005) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/january...

#NameoftheMonth A lovely name with a gruesome yet seasonally appropriate history: according to tradition Tràigh Bàn (nam Manach) 'White strand (of the monks)' at the northern end of #Iona was where the #Christmas Eve massacre of 986 took place: iona-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/names-of-the...

My first curmudgeonly post of the new year ✨️ I hate fairy doors. Mossy old trees are magical enough without having some bit of tat nailed to them. Besides, Irish faeries are not like Tinkerbell. Even an agnostic like me knows not to mess, they will absolutely fuck you up.