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ùghdar agus òraidiche aig an t-Sabhal

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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her) @lhlew.bsky.social · 14h
October is Black History Month in the UK 🥳 As a Gaelic learner and mother of two Black GME (Gaelic Medium Education) pupils, I love this post by Tawana Maramba about Afro-Gàidheal history and being an Afro-Gàidheal: blackballad.co.uk/views-voices...
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Black Gaelic Speakers Are Confronting Scotland's Hidden History
The fact that there isn't a word to for Black people in the Gaelic language is just one of the things Gaelic speakers of African descent are confronting.
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ohcon.bsky.social @ohcon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
OH!CON 2026 - Tickets now on sale! Taking place on Saturday 3 October 2026 at An Lanntair and Stornoway Town Hall. If you've been to OH!CON before, you'll know what to expect – a full day of talks, interesting guests, activities, cosplay, art, and the like. Find out more and book - ohcon.info
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Hogwarts na nGael" 🤣
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Ciarán Dunbar: Mo thuras anama iontach ag foghlaim Ghaeilge na hAlban
Fuair Ciarán blaiseadh de shaol eile, dar leis, agus seachtain caite aige i Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
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Stiùbhart Dunmore @dun-mor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sgeulachd snog bheag Newsround mun Ghàidhlig, fèin-aithne is FtMG a chòrd ris a’ chloinn agam madainn an-diugh! www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi...
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Scottish kids on why they love learning and speaking Gaelic
De-Graft spoke to pupils at a Gaelic primary school to find out about why this Scottish language is an important part of their identity.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An toil leibh seòladh? No am bu toil leibh bruidhinn mar spùinneadair? (Har, har! Cò nach bu toil!!) Tha mi air faclair lèirsinneach a chruthachadh dhan bhriathrachas sheòlaidh anns an nobhail ùir agam, agus tha e làn fhaclan ceangailte ri beatha a’ mharaiche. Seo e: drilseach.net/2026/06/30/a...
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An Luingeas Dorcha: Cainnt an t-Seòladair
Tha mi air meanbh-fhaclair dhen bhriathrachas-sheòlaidh anns an Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire a chruthachadh, agus gheibhear an seo i, ach shaoil mi gur dòcha nach dèanadh na mìneachaidhean an sin cus …
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Bha fìor dheagh chòmhradh againn aig @cymerafestival.co.uk am bliadhna: mi fhìn, Robin C.M. Duncan, agus Màiri Kidd a' bruidhinn mu bhith a' sgrìobhadh ficsean-saidheans ann an Gàidhlig is Scots. Ceud mìle taing dhan a h-uile duine a thàinig ann!
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Tha mi uamhasach toilichte aithris gu bheil An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire anns na bùithtean a-nis!! Cuideachd, tha Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach air ais ann an clò an dèidh bhliadhnaichean mòra. Gheibhear fios far am faighear iad aig a' cheangal an seo: drilseach.net/2026/06/07/t...
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Tha iad ann an clò!
Tha mi toilichte a ràdh gu bheil an nobhail ùr agam, An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire, a-nis anns na bùithtean! Cuideachd, rinn CLÀR ath-chlò-bhualadh dhen chiad nobhail anns an t-sreath, Air Cuan Dubh…
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The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Bidh Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social aig Fèis Cymera Dihaoine seo tighinn leis an leabhar ùr aige An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire! Tim Armstrong will be at Cymera Festival this Friday, with his new book An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire! Book here: www.cymerafestival.co.uk/programme-26...
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Ath-chlò-bhualadh!!
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tha mòran seòlaidh san nobhail ùir agam, agus mar sin, air a' bhlog agam, cuiridh mi suas 'faclair lèirsinneach' den bhriathrachas mharaiche a nochdas innte. Chan eil e deiseil fhathast, ach tha na dealbhan spòrsail, agus shaoil mi gun cuirinn beagan dhiubh suas an seo, cuideachd. Seo a dhà.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Aig a' chlò-bhualadair! Agus nach eil an còmhdach àlainn!! Taing mhòr do @phineas.bsky.social a tharraing an dealbh. Tha e dìreach sgoinneil.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A' dèanamh fiughair ri seo. Ma bhios sibh ann an DÈ anns an Ògmhios, thigibh ann! @cymerafestival.co.uk
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
B' fheàrr leam gum b' urrainn dhomh a dhol ann. Thug Alastair cothrom dhomh an leabhar aige a leughadh tràth, agus tha e mìorbhaileach math. Gur math thèid leis!
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LIA @inffinita.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Entre una colonia de hormigas y los cabecillas que gobiernan en este momento el mundo, prefiero las hormigas ARRIBA LAS HORMIGAS🐜🐜🐜!!!!
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Rhoda Meek @wodieskodie.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Final places on fully funded gaelic immersion course at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Isle of Skye www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk/news/fi… #scothinews
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Final places on fully funded gaelic immersion course at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Isle of Skye
Few places remain on Sabhal Mòr Ostaig’s fully funded Gaelic summer school, An Cùrsa Drochaid, now in its third year. The seven-week Gaelic immersion course starts on June 29 at Scotland’s National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture in the Isle of Skye.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Tha seo exciting. Chan fhada a-nis!
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Bha mi ag iarraidh leth-bheac dhen leabhar seo fad ages, is lorg mi fear air prìs nach robh craicte beagan làithean air ais. Tha mi air mo dhòigh. Èistibh beag mas àil leibh laoidh!
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Rud nach dèan mi cus ann an Alba. #SasainnNuadh
A picture of a snow-shoved driveway
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The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thig cuide rinn sa bhùth airson tachartas sci-fi còmhla ri Alistair Paul ann an Seachdain Leabhraichean na h-Alba! *Diardaoin 20mh dhen t-Samhain* aig 6.30f Tiogaidean: bit.ly/iomallbws
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"... bu chòir inbhe Sabhal Mòr Ostaig àrdachadh is comas a thoirt dhan cholaiste ceuman a thoirt seachad cho luath 's a ghabhas." Cha deach seo aontachadh buileach fhathast, ach bu chòir!
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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain @aonghusoha.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
smaointefanacha.blogspot.com/2025/10/neam... @edlor.bsky.social faoi úrscéal @drilseach.bsky.social aistrithe ag @murchadhmor.bsky.social Nára fada uainn an dara imleabhar!
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Neamhshaolta ach daonnachtúil!
Ní dóigh liom go bhfuil traidisiún ficsean eolaíochta láidir sa Ghaeilge. B'fhéidir cuid de na scéalta ag Cathal Ó Sandair le Réics Carlo ...
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The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Meal-a-naidheachd air Tim Armstrong a choisinn an duais airson An Làmh-sgrìobhainn as Fheàrr do dh’Inbhich 2025 le ‘An Luinges Dorcha air Fàire’. @publishingscotland.bsky.social @creativescots.bsky.social ‬ @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social #DuaisLit25 #Gàidhlig
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The Gaelic Books Council @leughleabhar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Geàrr-liosta: Làmh-sgrìobhainn as Fheàrr do dh’Inbhich An Luingeas Dorcha air Fàire – Tim Armstrong Aonar – Iain Cuimeanach Faidhean is Taibhsean – Calum L. MacLeòid Gun Tiotal – Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
A bhampairean, gabhaibh bhuam!
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Is toil leam an aiste seo air foillseachadh san 21 linn. Lorg mi a' chomhairle innte air na buannachdan an lùib "unmonetised publishing" gu sònraichte inntinneach. Mas e ùghdar a th' annad, mholainn i: kk.org/thetechnium/...
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Tha blog agam, The Socialist Entrepreneur, a tha air a bhith a' dol fad còrr is 10 bliadhna a-nis(!), ach a tha air sìoladh às beagan on a stad mi a phostadh o chionn greis. Leis an nobhail ùir agam deiseil, saoilidh mi gun tòisich mi a-rithist ag obair air, le corra lèirmheas leabhair is dòcha...
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
bràigh a’ bhàta
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Beò ann an saoghal saibeir-punc. Fianais an latha an-diugh: “autonomous narco drone sub”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Deagh leughadh ann am Port-adhair Inbhir Nis.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Tha mi a' coimhead an-diugh air an ealain dhan ath nobhail agam le @phineas.bsky.social, agus tha i craicte math. Tha mi a' dèanamh fiughair mhòr ri a foillseachadh!!!
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Òraid seachad. Phew!
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dh'fheuch mi ChatGPT sa Ghàidhlig an-dè, agus tha e air fàs eagalach math, feumaidh mi a ràdh. "How do you think AI is going to affect you as a writer? It’s going to be the end of us all." observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Colm Tóibín: ‘AI will be the end of us. Maybe that’s good’ | The Observer
The US-based Irish author on the inevitable decline of the novelist, fulfilling a lifelong ambition by writing for opera – and why he won’t even look at Trump
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Fuc dhea...
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 24/04/2025
Professor of Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen Moray Watson began working on a Scots Gaelic draft of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit prior to the first Covid-19 lockdown.
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The Hobbit translated into Scots Gaelic for first time
Moray Watson, a professor of Scots Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen, began working on a Gaelic draft of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit prior to the first Covid-19 lockdown.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“daor-chleachdadh” Dè ur beachd? drilseach.net/2025/03/30/d...
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Daor-chleachdadh
Dè a’ Ghàidhlig a chuireamaid air ‘exploitation’ anns an t-seagh shònraichte a’ ciallachadh a bhith a’ cleachdadh cuideigin no rudeigin ann an dòigh mhì-chothromach no…
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tim Tréanlamhaigh!
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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A really interesting article proposing the abolition of Boards of Trustees at universities and other aspects of top level administration: For Democratic Governance of Universities: The Case for Administrative Abolition muse.jhu.edu/article/917791
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Project MUSE - For Democratic Governance of Universities: The Case for Administrative Abolition
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Thachair sin nas luaithe na bha mi an dùil. Beò ann an saoghal saibeir-punc mar-thà... newatlas.com/brain/cortic...
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World's first "Synthetic Biological Intelligence" runs on living human cells
The world's first "biological computer" that fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to form fluid neural networks has been commercially launched, ushering in a new age of AI technology. The CL1...
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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Excellent news that @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social's summer immersion course will be running again - provides a very helpful new pathway into Gaelic further and higher education
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Nicolson, 128. Chan eil e ceàrr.
Cha shoirbh triubhas a chur air cat. It is not easy to put trews on a cat. Gaelic proverb
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Ainm an t-seann chòmhlain agam. True story.
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Iomairt ro mhath, ro chudromach! www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
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Gàidhlig A-staigh ga brosnachadh an Glaschu
Tha buidheann ann an Glaschu ag amas air teaghlaichean a tha a' feuchainn ri clann a thogail le Gàidhlig a thoirt còmhla.
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John Walsh @nuachainteoir.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Leabhar nua foilsithe againn le @cambridgeup.bsky.social faoin aiteachas agus an t-athneartú teanga (Gaeilge, Breatnais, Catalóinis agus Briotáinis). Tosaíodh an obair seo in 2022 agus mé fós i bpost acadúil. Buíochas le mo chomhúdair agus leis na heagarthóirí. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Queering Language Revitalisation
Cambridge Core - English Language and Linguistics: General Interest - Queering Language Revitalisation
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Gleansach…
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Chunna mi bhideo a’ cumail a-mach, gu bheil AI ga lorg doirbh dealbh a dhèanamh de chuideigin clì-làmhach. Rinn mi deuchainn luath agus yup…
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
‘S e ‘tùr innealta’ an t-eadar-theangachadh as fheàrr air ‘artificial intelligence’. Dèan sabaid rium! drilseach.net/2024/12/24/t...
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Tùr Innealta
Ciamar a chanar artificial intelligence anns a’ Ghàidhlig? Nuair a thig teicneòlas ùr sam bith am bàrr, daonnan ’s e ceist a th’ ann—anns a h-uile cànan ach a’ Bheurla mar as tric—dè briathar ùr a …
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Tim Armstrong @drilseach.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Tha i fuar ann an Sasainn Nuaidh an-diugh!
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Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Diofaran eadar beachdan agus tuigsean an luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig ann an Alba Nuadh agus an t-Seann Dùthaich - aithris inntinneach air leabhar ùr le @dun-mor@bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...
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Karly Kehoe @karlykehoe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Congratulations to Stuart Dunmore on his brilliant new book! @edinburghup.bsky.social
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