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Lorna Carson

@lornacarson.bsky.social
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Applied linguist, Dublin. Likes to be busy & likes doing nothing in equal measures.

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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us on 12 Nov for a #LIFELANGS public lecture on Translanguaging and Minority Languages, with Prof. Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211763...
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory Public Lecture
You are warmly invited to the next LIFELANGS Public Lecture by Professor Jasone Cenoz, on “Translanguaging and Minority Languages”
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Latest news from our LIFELANGS Living Observatory 🎉 @lifelangs.bsky.social lifelangs.com/2026/09/24/l...
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LIFELANGS Newsletter: Updates from the Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
Hello and welcome to the second issue of the LIFELANGS newsletter. We hope you have had a good summer. We have hit the ground running here, with a back-to-school vibe and new energy for the months …
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Transcript and closed captions available for each recording.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Slide share version youtu.be/XGFfyduWQi4?...
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Slide deck version Racism, Language & Educational Materials, Prof. Antia | LIFELANGS Lecture 9/7/26
YouTube video by TCD SLSCS
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Catch up on #lifelangs public lecture by Prof. Bassey Antia youtu.be/eKZPJcfdMjY?...
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Video version Racism, Language & Educational Materials, Prof. Antia | LIFELANGS Lecture 9/7/26
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
First #LIFELANGS Annual Public Lecture tomorrow 9 July at 12pm at QUB’s Canada Room @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social, with guest speaker Prof. Bassey Antia, University of the Western Cape, on “Racism, Language, and Educational Materials”. Free to join, register on Eventbrite ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4yn6pf2j
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 12/06/2026
Táimid ag earcú / We are hiring! 🚨 Tá muid ag glacadh le hiarratais ar dhá phost lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann: - Eagarthóir Coimisiúnaithe Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 18 Meitheamh 2026 - Cúntóir Corpais Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 29 Meitheamh 2026 www.ria.ie/about/career...
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory @lifelangs.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Did you know you could ask us ANYTHING related to language? Send us any language-related questions, the ones you’ve always wanted to ask, and we’ll do our best to answer them here! Just drop us a line at info@lifelangs.com
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Drop us a line! info@lifelangs.com
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Come to our @lifelangs.bsky.social coffee morning! tinyurl.com/LIFELANGS-25...
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Join us!
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Our excellent handbook on supporting inclusive multiliteracies in the early years is now available in Basque, Frisian and Dutch. www.readwithmee.eu
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Multilingual Matters @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New book! "Towards Building Anti-Racist Communities: A Focus on Intersectionalities" edited by Theresa Y. Austin and Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth is available now on our website ⬇️
Cover of "Towards Building Anti-Racist Communities: A Focus on Intersectionalities" edited by Theresa Y. Austin and Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
✨🌟We are thrilled to share our brand new @lifelangs project logo, drawn by Olivia McConaghy, aged 12, from County Armagh. Congratulations! 📣We are translating the lower part of our logo into as many languages as we can. Please tell us how to say ‘A Living Observatory’ in your languages!
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🗺️ New interactive language map from our @LIFELANGS Living Observatory! Ever wondered what languages are spoken in your area? Our interactive map, based on census data (2021 NISRA & 2022 CSO) shows languages other than English or Irish by county. antoinrodgers.shinyapps.io/lifelangs/
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
📢 Our first LIFELANGS newsletter is live! Check out our new interactive language map for the island of Ireland 🗺️, three new team members, and a packed events calendar ahead ⬇️ lifelangs.com #LIFELANGS #Languages #Ireland
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LIFELANGS
A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
All welcome at our mini research symposium next week, especially early career researchers. Come and present or just listen!
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Join us for our webinar on early multilingual literacies, part of the Read with MEE project, www.readwithmee.eu
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Launching today in Belfast and tomorrow in Dublin, come along if free and in the vicinity!
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory @lifelangs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Bring yourself and friends! Message us with any queries. Full details at www.lifelangs.com @lornacarson.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
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LIFELANGS
A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
LIFELANGS Living Observatory project officially launched :) Watch our launch webinar here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Efv... Closed captions available. BSL/ISL interpretation. #nsrp #hea #languagesconnect #thinklanguages #languagesmatter #sharedisland
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Online Launch of LIFELANGS A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
YouTube video by TCD SLSCS
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Thrilled to be able to start work alongside @aislingoboyle.bsky.social on the new @lifelangs.bsky.social Living Observatory project, working with an amazing team from @tcddublin.bsky.social & @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Launching 4 Dec at 4pm GMT online, join us! #NSRP
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/ and help us spread the word!
Call for a new logo (logo contest) with a big question mark and exclamation mark in the centre, with the project's details. On a green background with colourful and fun fonts.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Really powerful South African documentary screened at #ISB2025, “Free to Learn - Soze ungayibambi”, on the use of isiXhosa as well as English from Grade 4 in Basic Education. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGg...
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Documentary Launch| FREE TO LEARN: SOZE UNGAYIBAMBI!| 26 September 2024
YouTube video by Centre for Multilingualism & Diversities Research
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Congratulations to Zhu Hua!
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Colin Flynn (Cóilín Ó Floinn) @colinjflynn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
#IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟 Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Maybe you always knew deep down that we linguists are just lovely people, right?! Join us tomorrow for this public talk in @tcddublin.bsky.social and learn why… www.eventbrite.ie/e/why-lingui...
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Why Linguistics makes one a better person (and makes them feel better)
Why Linguistics makes one a better person (and makes them feel better). A genderized point of view on Italian.
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Trinity College Dublin School of Linguistics @tcdslscs.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Planning to study @tcddublin.bsky.social but need to boost your English first, or know someone who will be? We have a beneficial 10-week full-time Pre-sessional English Language Programme to assist your transition to your new place of study. 👉 Learn more at www.tcd.ie/slscs/englis...
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Love Ballymena @loveballymena.online · 23/03/2025
The new video conferencing facility, which is hosted by SignVideo, will offer both Irish Sign Language (ISL) or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting at the touch of a button and has been launched during National Sign Language Week.
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Police Service launches new sign language video relay service
The new video conferencing facility, which is hosted by SignVideo, will offer both Irish Sign Language (ISL) or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting at the touch of a button and has been launched ...
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Dublin friends and colleagues, I'm coming to Trinity next Monday 24th March to give the @historytcd.bsky.social Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture. All welcome, starts at 4pm in @tlrhub.bsky.social. Really looking forward to bringing this new research back to the alma mater!
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Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture - A City in Translation: Multilingual Lives in Early Modern London
A seminar by Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series.
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Josh Prada @joshprada.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We are hiring! The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcdslscs.bsky.social seeks an Asst Prof in Applied Sign Linguistics, specific purposes contract. Full details at www.tcd.ie/vacancies
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
Job description for job at TCD
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Update - I understand that the search has been stood down and that our colleague is safe and sound 🙏🙏
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Help us find our colleague @yecidortega.bsky.social / last seen two weeks ago in Germany.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Tomorrow @tcddublin.bsky.social @tricondublin.bsky.social - seminar on Anti-Racism in Equality Law.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Shocking read.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The world definitely needs more cross-cultural and cross-linguistic friendships - bbc.com/future/artic...
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'I call her my Italian sister': The power of cross-cultural friendships
What happens when we make friends across borders? Two writers talk about their British-Italian friendship – and the fascinating cognitive science on such cross-cultural bonds.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Happening this Friday @tcddublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...
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Staging Injustice: Performance and Asylum Hearings
A seminar with keynote speakers Dr Emma Cox (Royal Holloway, U.L.) and Prof Nick Gill (Exeter University) organised by the Trinity College Dublin Drama Department, The “Identities in Transformation” t...
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Welcome to @tcdslscs.bsky.social School of Linguistics to Bluesky! @tcddublin.bsky.social
Screenshot of the Bluesky home page for the School of Linguistic, Speech and Linguistic Sciences at Trinity College Dublin.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
@profdarryljones.bsky.social
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iraal.bsky.social @iraal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
📢Calling all Irish English speakers📢 PhD research on "the expression of the perfect" in Irish English. Short questionnaire (6 Qs) found at the link below 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Questionnaire on the expression of the perfect.
INFORMED CONSENT FORM FOR ADULTS Variation of the expression of the perfect in Northern and Southern Irish English. Invitation: I invite you to participate in a research project conducted by PhD stude...
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Our book club’s selection for this term, sourced from the ever reliable @kennysbookshop.bsky.social in Galway. No spoilers please 😅
Stack of 4 books, Orbital, Tokyo Express, Red Notice, Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Great to see our secondhand book sale up and running again, always one of the best bits in the Trinity year. Takes huge amounts of work from a team of volunteers @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Congratulations Ursula!
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