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Brendan Kane

@brendankanect.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern Ireland and England; part of léamh.org team (Learn Early Modern Irish); co-director of Democracy and Dialogues at UConn Dodd Human Rights Impact

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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🎉 Reminder: Happening tomorrow! Still time to register; link below 👇 Feicfidh muid ann sibh!
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A guide to Medieval Gaelic's witty advice, sayings and guidance. Aidan Doyle & Ken Ó Donnchú @ucc.ie @corkup.bsky.social on the witty dánfhocail containing advice and guidance on topics like wealth, love and drink www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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A guide to Medieval Gaelic's witty advice, sayings and guidance
Medieval Gaelic writers provided advice and guidance on topics like wealth, love and drink in the form of witty dánfhocail
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Scoláireacht bliana le fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh 1 Year scholarship available in SCS @dias.ie Sonraí / Details: www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies building in Dublin, Ireland
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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Alt nua-fhoilsithe in Éire-Ireland: “The undignified conduct of the ostrich”: The Gaelic League, the parish priest and the Kiltimagh doctor controversy of 1905. [Requires an institutional subscription, happy to send on a copy via email if anyone wants one] muse.jhu.edu/article/981610
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Still 2 weeks to apply for this position! It’s to provide cover for me while I work on a research project, so I have lots of teaching materials I'm happy to share & the department can offer some extra funding for attending conferences, etc. Come work with us in @ceilteachomn.bsky.social next year!
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 09/03/2026
Harvard pays McKinsey to tell it who to fire. The amount of money that universities waste on consultants to give them the veneer of objectivity to do what they were going to do anyway is likely shocking and would fund several tenure lines in the humanities: www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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The FAS Wanted to Cut Costs. It Hired McKinsey. | News | The Harvard Crimson
When the Faculty of Arts and Sciences set out to slash costs, it turned to an unlikely source for thrift: McKinsey & Company, one of the world’s most expensive management consulting firms, according t...
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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Thurs 26 March, Prof. Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Memorial Lecture (in-person and online), on a topic close to Bannerman's own work: 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More info 👇 hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...
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John Bannerman Lecture 2026 - Professor Fiona Edmonds | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Hybrid.
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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Early modern handwriting = real life time travel. ⏳These memories of Anne Boleyn, recorded in 1610 by Rose Lok, can be read today at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Take our 2-wk online course (13-24 April) & learn to get the most from early modern handwriting: tinyurl.com/32hfbm6m 💻
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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
#IWD2026 June1666 'E. Ormond' sends a letter to London. virtualtreasury.ie/item/TNA-SP-... Elite women like Elizabeth Butler, duchess of Ormond are easier to spot in the archive. The tone of her letter to Secretary of State Arlington shows her social standing. 👀 ALT
Check out Elizabeth's Knowledge Graph entry to see he other letters to Arlington:
https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/entity-card/person/Butler_Elizabeth_c17/v1z89hn

Thanks to our generous colleagues in https://www.dib.ie/ for sharing Elizabeth's biography, included in the Knowledge Graph.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/Butler-Elizabeth-a1245
Elizabeth Butler's signature, using her title 'Elizabeth Ormonde.

Dr Neil Johnson's work at TNA continues to uncover individual women and men in the State Papers Ireland collection, a real treasure trove! https://virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/state-papers-ireland  Our Technical Director Dr Éamonn Kenny manages to make this complex web of data visible for users online. 

Dr Lynn Kilgallon, Dr Lucy McKenna and Dr Alex Randles are the team behind the growing Knowledge Graph for Irish History. https://kg.virtualtreasury.ie/
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On 16 Sept 1642 Rosa O'Doherty signed this letter. Here it is for #InternationalWomensDay , 384 years later. This is possibly a unique surviving example of a 17thC signature of a #Gaelic Irishwoman. (The letter is now in @ucdarchives.bsky.social as part of the Franciscan collection)
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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I’ve posted updated versions of two comprehensive bibliographies relating to Gaelic in Scotland. The first deals with sociolinguistics and language planning concerning Gaelic from 1980 on: tinyurl.com/bdeda7br The other covers Gaelic literature from 1900 to the present: tinyurl.com/caxbjv9s
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
This is a gift link to Jenny Schuessler’s essential article about the DOGE assault on funded peer reviewed humanities research at NEH. And about the lawsuit by @historians.org @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social that is bringing the details to light.
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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
“Do the strategies employed by subjects of empire offer productive models of resistance and subversion?” In the penultimate piece in our AI series, @megsmith.bsky.social offers vignettes from early modern Ireland that could suggest productive models of resistance. www.nacbs.org/post/contest...
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Contesting Colonial Technologies: Historical Models for Resistance
"Do the strategies employed by subjects of empire offer productive models of resistance and subversion?"
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Sabhal Mòr Ostaig @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Faic Òraid an t-Sabhail 2026 le Ceit Fhoirbeis BPA, Leas-Phrìomh Mhinistear is Rùnaire a’ Chaibineit airson na h-Eaconamaidh is Gàidhlig. Watch our 2026 Annual Lecture with Kate Forbes MSP, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for the Economy and Gaelic. youtube.pulse.ly/fjozsvled7
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Òraid an t-Sabhail 2026 – Kate Forbes MSP, Deputy First Minister | Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Thèid Òraid an t-Sabhail 2026 a thoirt seachad leis an Leas-Phrìomh Mhinistear agus Rùnaire a’ Chaibineit airson na h-Eaconamaidh agus Gàidhlig aig Riaghalta...
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David Chan Smith @dasmith.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
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Smuggling Database | davidchansmith
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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Very much looking forward to reading this. Congrats to Sonia!!
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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Happening one week from today! Please join Patrick Wadden, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, John McCafferty, Catherine McKenna, me, and bunch of your best Celticists friends for the virtual book launch of An Eoraip. Register at uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today at 1pm in Dublinia!
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 04/03/2026
Earlier this week, Peadar sat down to talk with Éanna Ó Caollaí from the Irish Times, check it out: www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...
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An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine
An scéal neamhghnách faoin tslí ar tharla sleachta Gaeilge a bheith scríofa ar chnámha beithígh
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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Latest episode of the podcast is a masterclass on the 'Ulster Cycle', Táin Bó Cuailgne & Irish literature from Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn @scs-dias.bsky.social. We learn how these stories can be valuable to the historian, their lasting relevance & how they've evolved 1/ open.spotify.com/episode/0xoY...
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The Ulster Cycle with Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My @historicaljnl.bsky.social article has been published open access alongside great articles by @adambforsyth.bsky.social, @davidandress.bsky.social, and others I couldn't locate here, in the most recent journal issue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Léacht ar an mborradh a tháinig faoin litríocht Breatnaise i dtréimhse Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240). A lecture on the flourishing of Welsh literature in the age of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c. 1173-1240). Cambridge, 19 Máirt/March 2026. #DIASdiscovers www.english.cam.ac.uk/news/archive...
Poster advertising H M. Chadwick Memorial Lecture, Cambridge, 19 March 2026. See link.
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Happening this Thursday!
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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Déardaoin na seachtaine seo beidh mé ag caint ar an gcnámh seo agus cnámha eile (!) den chineál céanna 👇
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Amidst all, will be glad to be in conversation with my brilliant friend Jennifer Morgan tomorrow and in company with a stunning group of historians @nyhistory.bsky.social for the Max conference on women's history-- a subject we need much, much more of. www.nyhistory.org/programs/lib...
Image of an 18th century city scene, with info about "Liberty for All?  Women in the Age of the Revolutions" and info also about the opening plenary with Jennifer Morgan and Karin Wulf.
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Our in-person research seminars this semester @ceilteachomn.bsky.social - come for the cutting-edge research, stay for the post-seminar spring rolls & potato wedges!
Maynooth University Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminar, semester 2, 2025-6. 12 February: Dr Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, Positioning Meath and Clonard in the Central Middle Ages. 12 March: Prof. James Palmer, Pagan Knowledge, Christian World: Science, Medicine & Religion, c. 600-900. 23 April, Dr Edel Bhreathnach, New Religion, New Pots: Newgrange, St Brigit and Imported Pottery. All seminars are at 5pm in Room 2.31, Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University. For queries: elizabeth.boyle@mu.ie
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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Just pushing up the registration link for the virtual book launch here 👇. See you there!
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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Today sees the beginning of a two-day conference hosted by @thehuntington.bsky.social, organised by Dr Vanessa Wilkie and IMEMS member Dr Amanda Herbert, 'United Queendom: Legacies of Gendered Power in the Early Modern British World'. 👑
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If you missed Monday’s seminar by Dr Paddy Gleeson on ‘Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early Medieval Ireland’, there’s a recording at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wpl...
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Irish Studies Seminar: Patrick Gleeson (23/2/26)
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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!
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Hugely looking forward to hosting this one-day symposium on 'Medical Learning in the Medieval Gaelic World' as part of the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project @maynoothuniversity.ie - join us @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social on Thursday 12th March!
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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
'Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures' is out now Edited by Helen Fulton and Georgia Henley, this collection goes beyond the familiar canon of medieval Celtic literatures to showcase a range of texts that are compelling in their literary imagination and technical innovation.
‘Written by distinguished scholars in the field of
 Celtic Studies, this volume’s insightful and
 original chapters celebrate the import of Catherine
 McKenna’s wide-ranging scholarly interests on the
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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
On way back from two weeks on the short courses at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social A truly outstanding experience. Terrific staff; so welcoming. Learned a ton. Met amazing folks. Run don't walk to next year's Cùrsaichean Goirid! www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/short-course...
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Short Courses - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Residential and online Short Courses in Gaelic, music and culture.
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Brendan Kane @brendankanect.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thanks to you, Deborah, and to all the other contributors for their wonderful work. And thanks to Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social for such an excellent job all around in producing the volume. Can't say enough about their professionalism and support; joy to work with. Enjoy, a chairde!
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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇
Poster advertising an event to take place on 5 September 2025 at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh, on the topic of 'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic'. The event will run from 10am to 5pm. 10.00 
Introduction and welcome

10.30-12.00 
Ken Ó Donnchú (UCC): Spanish-Irish translation 1593-1706

Aonghas MacCoinnich (Glasgow): Gaelic perspectives on ‘state formation’ and Atlantic plantation. The case of Lewis, c.1610-c.1640

Silke Stroh (Koblenz): Re-fitting ‘The Garb of Old Gaul’: Circum-Atlantic warfare and intercultural mobility in re-writings and translations of a popular 18th-century song 

 12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-14.30 
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh): Viewing Inveraray from St Lucia: The case of Dugald MacNicol’s manuscripts 

Kathleen Reddy (Glasgow): The Bàrd na Ceapaich manuscript at the University of Glasgow

Brendan Kane (UConn & Edinburgh): Political thought and politicization from New York to Cork: Reading the early modern through a 19th-century commonplace book

14.30-15.00 
 Coffee

15.00-16.00  
Rob Dunbar (Edinburgh): Johnathon Mackinnon and Mac-Talla 

Síobhra Aiken (QUB): Gaeltacht communities in North America: Real or Imagined?

16.00-17.00 
Round table  
Enda Delaney (Edinburgh), Désha Osborne (Edinburgh) 
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna (Galway)

17.00 
Close
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Chantal Kobel @chantalkobel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I'll be launching Dr Rebecca Shercliffe's Old Irish: A Beginner's Guide @ria.ie tomorrow eve at 6.30pm. If you are around, do pop into 19 Dawson St. to help celebrate the publication of Dr Shercliffe's new book!
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Léamh @earlymodirish.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Now available on léamh.org, a selection from a 17th century poem composed for Maol Muire Mac Suibhne. Thanks to @ciaranimhurchu.bsky.social for the wonderful work preparing the selection. Take a look at the poem here xn--lamh-bpa.org/texts/cuid-r...
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Léamh @earlymodirish.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Anois ar fáil ar léamh.org, sliocht ó dhán polaitiúil ón 17ú Aois a cumadh do Maol Muire Mac Suibhne. Ár mbuíochas le @ciaranimhurchu.bsky.social as an obair iontach ar fad lena chur in eagar. Caith súil air anseo xn--lamh-bpa.org/texts/cuid-r...
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UConn History Dept @uconnhistory.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social featured in a recent @nytimes.com piece! Link below: history.uconn.edu/2025/05/27/m...
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Manisha Sinha Featured in the New York Times | Department of History
Prof. Manisha Sinha was quoted in a May 25 New York Times piece, looking back at the murder of George Floyd and the 2020 movement for Black lives. Prof. Sin ...
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MURAL @mu-mural.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Hayden, Deborah and Baccianti, Sarah (2025) Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World. Vernacular Texts and Traditions. mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19...
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Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World. Vernacular Texts and Traditions - MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library
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The Edinburgh Reporter @edinreporter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Spotlight on Gaelic education in Edinburgh – event this weekend The successes and challenges of Gaelic-medium education (GME)  in Edinburgh will come under the spotlight at a discussion organised by the Gaelic community group Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann. GME has grown impressively since it began…
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Spotlight on Gaelic education in Edinburgh – event this weekend
The successes and challenges of Gaelic-medium education (GME)  in Edinburgh will come under the spotlight at a discussion organised by the Gaelic community group Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann. GME has grown impressively since it began in 1988 and today more than 700 children are enrolled at the city’s dedicated Gaelic primary school, Bun-sgoil Taobh na Pàirce, and James Gillespie’s High School.
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Léamh @earlymodirish.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Available now on léamh.org: glossary to Cecile O'Rahilly (ed./trans.) Eachtra Uilliam. Get your own copy of this fascinating tale at shop.dias.ie/product/each... (currently on sale!). Thanks as ever to DIAS School of Celtic Studies (@scs-dias.bsky.social). Happy reading and translating, a chairde!
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Bríd McGrath @bridmcgrath.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Hot off the presses! I’m Delighted to have had the chance to discuss the use of #Gaeilge in #EarlyModern #Irish #towns and #parliaments. Míle buíochas @brendankanect.bsky.social for starting me on this path.
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Léamh @earlymodirish.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Glossary from Eleanor Knott's "Irish Syllabic Poetry" now included in the glossary section of léamh.org (xn--lamh-bpa.org/glossary/). With thanks, as ever, to DIAS School of Celtic Studies (@scs-dias.bsky.social). Get your own copy of this foundational text here: shop.dias.ie/product/an-i...
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Joshua Byron Smith @joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I'd just like to encourage everyone, but especially ECRs to consider submitting to the North American Journal of Cetlic Studies. I can say from experience that the journal gets fast and effective peer review, which can be a boon for junior scholars.
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The North American Journal of Celtic Studies
The North American journal of Celtic studies is the official journal of the Celtic Studies Association of North America
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Gordon Ó Riain @gordonoriain.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Happy to see my book in print! IGT V is the oldest surviving metrical tract of the Early Modern Irish period (13th/14th cent.), used to train students in poetry, language, and style. irishtextssociety.org/publications... Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!
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Niamh Wycherley @niamhwycherley.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
CFP! Deadline April 25th. The PhD researchers in the Dept of Early Irish are organising a conference (Nov. 7th, Maynooth) for postgraduates in any area related to 'Celtic Studies' to provide them with an opportunity to present their research in a lively, welcoming and academically robust setting!
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Nua-fhoilsithe ag Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, Institiúid Ard-Léinn BhÁC @scs-dias.bsky.social @diasdublin.bsky.social: "Seal re Saobhnós" in eagar ag Síle Ní Mhurchú ⁊ Mícheál Hoyne - cnuasach aistí ar na dánta grá. Ar ordú ag shop.dias.ie/product/seal...
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Irish and Digital Humanities- University College Dublin – School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore / School of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO003/a...
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Ad Astra Fellow - Assistant Professor in Irish and Digital Humanities at University College Dublin
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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