I've heard a lot of dumb AI opinions but "AI will save minority languages" is the very dumbest at all.

“A major book festival is to stage its first hybrid Gaelic/English event this week. Granite Noir is the latest big book festival to host such an event, and for author Shelagh Chaimbeul, it is welcome recognition of the importance of the Gaelic language.” #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Leabhraichean #Books

The plant "lavender" mirrors both Irish 🇮🇪:lus liath and Scottish Gaelic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿:lus-liath in Manx: 🇮🇲:lavander 🇮🇲:lus lheeah ("grey plant") #Manx #Gaelg #langsky #Gàidhlig #Irish #Gaeilge

1940 Irish language scif-fi book Manannán by Máiréad Ní Ghráda It is the first Mecha Robot outside of Japan and mention of a Gravity assist in fiction. It was never republished or translated.

If I was a billionaire I'd directly finance Richard Baneham or Peter Jackson to direct an epic movie trilogy based on the Tuatha DéDeannan.

an elder in Boston spent his life building a one-of-a-kind radical library, but he's aging and it needs a new home. Cooperation Jackson has agreed to take it, but they need help shipping it all there. blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...

The longlist for the 2025 Duais Leabhair na Gàidhealtachd | Highland Book Prize has been announced. The Prize celebrates the talent, landscape, & cultural diversity of the Scottish Highlands & is open to works of fiction, non-fiction, & poetry 💙📚 www.highlandbookprize.org.uk/longlist/

Absentee landlord of Scottish island urges community buyout https://www.scotsman.com/news/absentee-landlord-of-scottish-island-urges-community-buyout-5532074 #scothinews

Happy Galentine’s Day ❤ Cloaked marvel (Chytonix palliatricula), a noctuid moth with heart shapes on its forewings. (Thank you Brenna Frasier, Senior Curator Zoology)

On wednesday, I had my first conversation in #Gàidhlig and it went very well! There were a few things I didn't know how to say so I switched to English, but overall I am extremely proud of myself :) For the most part Gaelic came to my mind completely naturally. Feels like a dream come true!

Tá cáineadh déanta ar Údarás na Gaeltachta as comórtas a sheoladh chun físeáin IS a chruthú faoin nGaeltacht - agus tá an cáineadh tuillte acu!

LOVE THE IRISH LANGUAGE? Support artists that use it. Put your money where your teanga is. Buy Irish language presents and books. Send your kids to the Gaeltacht. Kneecap 2 nights at the 3Arena this week. An Chéad Ghlúin Eile sold out tomorrow. #AnGhaeilgeAbú! ❤️ #Gaeilge

Dictionary of of ancient Celtic from insular sources: www.theguardian.com/science/2025... Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS C iii 1, the Annals of Connacht. This unique manuscript records episodes in the history of Gaelic Ireland for over three hundred years from AD 1224 to AD 1544, with one later entry added (in different ink) for the year 1562.

Comhghairdeas le foireann focloir.ie as an chéad chuid den Fhoclóir Nua Gaeilge (2025) a chur ar líne! 🥂🎄 Meal a naidheachd air sgioba focloir.ie a tha air a’ chiad phàirt de dh’fhaclair ùr aona-chànanach, am Foclóir Nua Gaeilge (2025), a chur air-loidhne! www.focloir.ie/ga/dictionar...

Delighted to see my article on Catrìona nighean Mhic Aonghais, a Mull-born poet living in Greenock, published in the new issue of Aiste clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

Sad day for Country music fans. The Mavericks were one of the last lines of defense against what popular country music would become. And Raul had an incredible voice on par with Roy Orbison. He will be missed. RIP Legend.

And books and movies in other languages!

At no point in Scottish history has this country ever been home to just one language, yet for the past 300 years the sole official language of Scotland has been English, writes Paul Kavanagh ✍️

Big first year for the world's only Gaelic metalcore band Tapadh leibh uile airson èisteachd

We're all Jock Tamson's bairns. Tell Nigel Farage and his far-right fascists, racist goons that we don't want their hate here. #GieRacismTheBoot #ScotlandWelcomesAll* (*Bigots need not apply)

Bradan Press prez @dremilymcewan.bsky.social has a petition to the Govt of #Canada asking to change eligibility rules for Canadian publisher funding so a #Gaelic publisher like us doesn't fall thru the cracks! 🇨🇦 Canadians, PLEASE sign by Fri 5 Dec 2025, 11am EST: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

🌲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 Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 E 29, the Book of Fermoy. Mostly dating from the 1450s and 1460s, it is associated with the Roche lordship in County Cork and contains poems and prose material relating to the medieval Roche family.

"In any event these recordings provide model resources for anyone seeking samples of grounded authentic speech in real-life action." #Gàidhlig #Gaeilge #Gaelic guthan.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/g...

🎄On the first day of #12PubsOfChristmas, we’re cooking up Ireland’s rich food heritage! Irish Food History: A Companion, edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman, brings together 30+ contributors to explore Ireland’s culinary heritage from the Ice Age to modern dining.

Wait no The Blackness is definitely an early 2000s rock band from Aberdeen

1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman. This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Just out! As @sarahsemple.bsky.social says, '544 pages and 190 images of pure sculptural joy!' A fantastic cast list and a tremendous achievement @ascorpus.bsky.social. boydellandbrewer.com/book/early-m...

Living in Angus, we are surrounded by standing stones, Pictish art, and hill forts. So this book caught my eye #CarvedInStone #Picts carvedinstone.scot

I love this poem too - thanks for bringing it over to #speirgorm

Wow!

1/4📜✨New on ISOS: from the Russell Library, Maynooth three 19th-c. Manuscripts for Fr. Muiris Cinniféic, scribes Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna & Pól Ó Longáin. Saints’ lives, genealogies, law, devotional, etc links to Book of Lismore & the Leabhar Muimhneach. 🙏Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social @dias.ie

Foliseachán nua - New publication 2 The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text Edited by Fergus Kelly shop.dias.ie/product/the-... @dias.ie #DIASdiscovers

Friday at 9am Hawaii - join us for the final session of the 2025 Language Documentation Learning Series! We’ll talk about Indigenous language revitalization, and how to find funding for this work. All are welcome, and this event (like all ELP programs) is free! Register at: bit.ly/langdoc2025

This is so exciting - I can't wait to get into it! #folklore #folkloring #oralhistory #folklife

Ach cò tha air cùl obair an Fhaclair, agus dè dìreach an obair a tha iad a’ dèanamh? Bidh sinn a’ toirt sùil air an sgioba anns na seachdainean a tha romhainn. Seo cuid againn an-seo - cò a dh’aithnicheas sibh? #gàidhlig #gaidhlig #faclair #lexicography

review of #SSBA2025 finalist Ghost Apparent, by Jelena Dunato, a loving and gleeful tearing-apart of fairy-tale romance by subjecting both the conventions of fairy tales and the conventions of romance to Renaissance/early modern Realpolitik: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...

This Underwood typewriter, likely the first with Irish characters, was used by the Gaelic League around 1905. Now on display in the newly opened Changing Ireland Galleries in Collins Barracks, it’s a powerful symbol of everyday tools shaping Irish identity. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

New audio and photographic material was published during Oireachtas na Samhna. More information: www.gaois.ie/assets/pdf/2...

Three Lwyd Moon 🌕 Available this weekend only as a part of @theyetee.com annual Sweaterfest 🌿

He keeps doing it. Every time somebody gets beheaded in this text, the word "head" is replaced with a little hand-drawn emoticon. And considering how many people get beheaded in this story, that's a lot of lil face drawings.

Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cú Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment

Lachlann MacBheathain | Lachlan MacBean, one of Erskine's regular contributors, was born #OTD 6 November 1853 in Kiltarlity. MacBean was also active in pan-Celtic networks and served as the convener of the Scottish Committee of the 1921 pan-Celtic congress in Edinburgh.

Féach freisin abair.ie ó @abairtcd.bsky.social

We're kinda new to #HillfortsWednesday. Are we doing it right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Eileamaid na seachdaine Stac "pillar;rock" Thoir dhuinn ainm staca a tha a' còrdadh ribh! #AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic

Today's word of the day in #Mikmaq Jijgluewj (jich·kê·lu·ewch) Jijgluewj is a sheep

The MS of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre, also known as the Book of the Dun Cow. Written in Irish at Clonmacnoise before AD 1106, it contains the oldest version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, the Voyage of Bran, the Feast of Bricriú, and other material from the Irish literary tradition.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...