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Léachtóir sinsearach i Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. An Fhiannaíocht. Na Dánta Grá. Lámhscríbhinní na Gaeilge. Liomsa na tuairimí seo!

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Léamh @earlymodirish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now available on léamh.org, selection from Keating's Eochair-sgiath an Aifrinn. Fantastic work by Greg Darwin, Feliks Levin and Rebecca Madlener; check it out here: xn--lamh-bpa.org/texts/eochai... Congrats to you three and thanks for publishing your work with léamh and sharing it with all!
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irishtextssociety.bsky.social @irishtextssociety.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our annual seminar jointly organised with the combined Departments of Irish, UCC, will be held on Saturday, 7 November. This year's subject will be Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag Tuired.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 25/09/2026
CFP: Religious Texts in the Celtic Languages, 1500–1900 24–25 May 2027 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Abstracts invited on any linguistic, philological, literary, historical or theological topic relating to religious prose & verse in the Celtic languages, from 1500 to 1900 llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...
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Religious Texts in the Celtic Languages, 1500–1900 | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture
A two-day conference exploring religious prose and verse from between 1500 and 1900, written in Celtic languages including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Call for papers curr...
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mícheál Ó Maoilchiaráin and his Liffey curach in front of the entrance to @dias.ie, rowed in for the day in celebration of Nauigatio St Brendani.
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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 1. The manuscript now known as the Book of Uí Mhaine was written in Irish in the late 14th C. The contents of the Book of Uí Mhaine are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What do Catherine Connolly, Donald Trump and myself have in common? We are all mentioned in this article in the Irish Times by Ronan McGreevy: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie
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Was Catherine Connolly ‘trolling’ Donald Trump by giving him an obscure medieval text at the Áras?
US president gifted new edition of Voyage of St Brendan, a book which has a centuries’ long back story
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Charles de Gaulle (Sr.) a.k.a. Charlez Vro-C'hall and pan-Celtic sentiments connecting Ireland with Brittany and France, by @frankie49.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
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Asterisked de Gaulle: Frank McNally on the lesser-known, and Irish-speaking, namesake of the general
Charles de Gaulle (1837–1880) anticipated Patrick Pearse by half a century
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Liam Ó hAisibéil @ainmeolai.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tá clár na Comhdhála ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na #Gaeilge 2026 ar fáil anois agus is féidir súil a chaitheamh air agus clárú do chomhdháil na bliana seo anseo: universityofgalwaydoi.clr.events/event/138123... Bígí linn cois Coiribe i lár na míosa seo chugainn!
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An Chomhdháil ar Litríocht agus ar Chultúr na Gaeilge 2026
Bígí linn ag Ollscoil na Gaillimhe don cheathrú comhdháil is tríocha ar Chultúr agus ar Litríocht na Gaeilge! Táimid ag súil le cloisteáil faoin taighde uilig atá ar siúl i réimsí éagsúla de Léann na ...
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New Books at Project Gutenberg @new.gutenberg.org · 15/09/2026
New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: Cormac Ua Conaill by Patrick S. Dinneen www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79587
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Newly published by @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie: Liam Breatnach, Fíngein mac Flaind’s poem on the Fir Arda: An early medieval Irish reflection on the limitations of satire, DIAS 2026 Available at: shop.dias.ie/product/fing...
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New issue | The latest issue of Studia Hibernica is available now! Discover articles on Gaelic succession, the origins of the place name Leixlip, the influence of the anti-Home Rule movement in New Zealand and more in Volume 52. Find out more here ⬇️ bit.ly/Studia52
The Studia Hibernica social media graphic features the white plain cover of the journal to the left atop four bright red rectangles as the journal's motif. The journal summary is written to the right which reads: 'Devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore and place names, and related subjects.' The background is a pale blue acrylic abstract painting of the Irish sky with the LUP logo in white on the top right.
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An leabhar is déanaí ó Chló Torna @ucc.ie - Mícheál Óg Ó Longáin: Saothar Fileata, in eagar ag Breandán Ó Conchúir #filíocht
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
💡Comhdháil Lae💡 Recording the Past: The Annals of Inisfallen and the Making of Irish History @ucclibrary.bsky.social 🖋️ Bígí linn ar an 18 Meán Fómhair! libcal.ucc.ie/event/4589456 📝
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Public Conference: Recording the Past: The Annals of Inisfallen and the Making of Irish History
Join us for a special conference to mark Recording the Past: The Annals of Inisfallen and the Making of Irish History exhibition. Conference Keynote: Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s...
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Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After a long embargo, it is finally out: my ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu has been funded. The 5-year project on creatively active new users of Celtic languages in the 19th and early 20th century starts in Jan 27 at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz. For news, follow us at @erc-nudgers.bsky.social.
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 02/09/2026
The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in an exhibition that will open at UCC
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The Annals of Innisfallen exhibition to open at UCC
The Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle life in Ireland from before the arrival of St Patrick until the 15th century, will go on public display in this country for the first time 40 years today, in...
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Irish Script On Screen (www.isos.dias.ie) @dias-isos.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1/2📜New on ISOS: American Irish Historical Society Chronicon Scotorum, 18th-cent. vellum manuscript copied by Micheál mac Peadair Í. Longáin in 1711. Colophon records the copying in Co. Limerick when Longáin was 18. Delighted to welcome this AIHS collaboration. Thks to Mark Lindenburg, AIHS Curator.
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Clár an Tionóil - bead féin ag caint ar aistriúcháin Ghaeilge ar scéalta as na Gesta Romanorum!
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One for the diary at @scs-dias.bsky.social: Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhaill "Assessing 18th-century toponymic knowledge: Tadhg Ó Neachtain’s Irish gazetteer (1728)" When: 25 Sept 2026 16:00 Where: @dias.ie Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...
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Inaugural Lecture & Launch: The Society for Name Studies in Ireland
'Assessing 18th-century toponymic knowledge: Tadhg Ó Neachtain’s Irish gazetteer (1728)' with Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhaill
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Fionn Folklore Database @fionnfolklore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This week’s folklore tidbit from the Ordnance Survey explores the origins of the placename Cullen in County Tipperary. Was it the site of a deadly battle involving Fionn Mac Cumhaill? Watch our video to find out! @ria.ie @fsg-dcu.bsky.social #folklore #irishfolklore
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Irish Studies Assistant Prof post available at @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/191724
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I hadn't been aware of this before: Tomás Ó Cathasaigh reads Messe ocus Pangur Bán in Old Irish and in Séamus Heaney's translation (2013). www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcw...
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Seamus Heaney: A Memorial Celebration, "Pangur Bán" (Clip 6 of 17)
YouTube video by Harvard English
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lá cainteanna agus seoladh eagráin nua den Navigatio Sancti Brendani A day of talks to mark the launch of the new edition and translation of the Voyage of St Brendan 24 Meán Fómhair / September 2026 DIAS #DIASdiscovers www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-voyage...
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The Voyage of St Brendan, A European Odyssey
A day of events to celebrate the launch of a modern edition and English translation of the text
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales = Ulidia 5 (Maynooth, March 2016), eds. Lára Ní Mhaoláin, @thecelticist.bsky.social & myself, are now available free and open access at Maynooth MURAL @mu-mural.bsky.social: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/21...
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The Disappearing Text Project @disappearingtext.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Today is your LAST CHANCE to register for our conference happening later this week 🚨 Táimid ag súil go mór leis! Tuilleadh eolais ⤵️
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dríodar IS ar taispeáint ar sheilpeanna Hodges Figgis inné
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Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Irish-language research opportunity at the University of St Thomas (St Paul, MN): 8-wk funded research for early career scholar with interest in the Gaeltacht +/or contemporary spoken Irish. Details attached.
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ag súil go mór leis an gcomhdháil seo a bheidh ar siúl Dé Céadaoin! www.ria.ie/events/muine...
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Publication alert at @scs-dias.bsky.social: Malacha McKenna, The Irish of Rann na Feirste Co. Donegal: A Phonemic System, @dias.ie 2026. Available at a reduced introductory price now: shop.dias.ie/product/the-...
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John Walsh @nuachainteoir.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thanks to the Irish History Podcast for inviting me to be interviewed about Irish language policy since the Revival period. Agallamh liom faoi athbheochan na Gaeilge ó dheireadh an 19ú hAois go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. shows.acast.com/irishhistory...
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Broken Promises: Why Irish Independence Failed the Irish Language | Irish History Podcast
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ailt spéisiúla ar Ghaeilge Mhanann: www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
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Special Issue: Manx Revivals; Issue Editors: Christopher Lewin and Erin McNulty
Volume 2026, issue 298-299 of the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language was published in 2026.
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
📖 Academics from our Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies have co-edited a new collection of poetry that sheds light on women's poetic voices across Wales, Ireland and Scotland between 1400 to 1800. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/425psjdu #WomensPoetry #CelticLanguages
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Léachtóireacht sa Nua-Ghaeilge @ucc.ie Post buan é seo! Scaipigí an scéal! universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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University Vacancies
Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Léiriú ar thábhacht na foghraíochta!
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Odaisé Uí Nualláin - thar barr!
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Lá mór do léann na Fiannaíochta: tá eagrán Dhòmhnaill E. Meek de na Laoithe Fiannaíochta i Leabhar Dhéan Leasa Mhóir ar fáil ar líne anois! dasg.ac.uk/bdl-heroic-b...
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Book of the Dean of Lismore - Book of the Dean of Lismore
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One for the diary: Nauigatio Sancti Brendani: a European Odyssey A day of talks and events to celebrate a medieval Irish bestseller. @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie Thursday, 24th September 2026 In celebration of the launch of shop.dias.ie/product/navi.... More details to follow.
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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Meet the Bart Simpson of 16th century Ireland. New #RTEBrainstorm podcast based on a piece by Brianán Ní Bhuachalla @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie & voiced by Jan Ní Fhlanagáin - now available wherever you get your podcasts www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Radharc scanrúil ar áit ina ndeineadh an Fhiann fos. :( Lá dá ndeachaidh Fionn na bhFiann do sheilg ar Shliabh na mBan Fionn, trí mhíle de mhaithibh na bhFiann sul ndeachaidh grian ós ár gcionn.
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Tá inscríbhinní Gaeilge a rinneadh chun a bpósadh a cheiliúradh le feiceáil, mar aon leis an teach inar bhuail Éamonn Ceannt agus Áine O'Brennan lena chéile den chéad uair, teaghlach agus óige Ceannt, agus breith a mic, Ronan. Tá roinnt sceitsí pinn luaidhe le feiceáil san imleabhar freisin.
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The Disappearing Text Project @disappearingtext.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Our project conference is in less than a month! Some important info: 🚨 Don't forget to register (www.ucc.ie/en/disappear...). Conference dinner deadline: 10 August. Conference attendance deadline: 17 August. 🗓️ The programme is now available! A fantastic lineup. We look forward to seeing you in UCC!
Disappearing Text project conference poster with logos and QR codeProgramme for the Disappearing Text conference (Friday 21 August)Programme for the Disappearing Text conference (Saturday 22 August)
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Ciaran McDonough @metamedievalist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For a recent conference paper, I created a dataset of discussions about Irish dialects, pronunciation, and levels of Irish in the various townlands and parishes in the Ordnance Survey Letters. Available here: zenodo.org/records/2138...
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Irish and the Ordnance Survey Letters – Dialects, Accent Features, and Levels of Irish
'Irish and the Ordnance Survey Letters – Dialects, Accent Features, and Levels of Irish' is a dataset of information about Irish in the various townlands and parishes visited during the Ordnance Surve...
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School of Celtic Studies - Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh DIAS @scs-dias.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Celtica ar líne Celtica online Celtica 30 (2018), Celtica 31 (2019) ar líne anois / now online. journals.dias.ie/index.php/ce... #DIASdiscovers Cuirtear seaneagráin na hirise ar líne de réir a chéile. We are gradually making the back issues of the journal available online.
Screenshot of the webpage for the journal Celtica, available by clicking link.
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Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
CALL FOR PAPERS: Insular Encounters in Early Medieval Europe, Zürich 3–6 March 2027
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Aaron Griffith @aaron-griffith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Guess what? The call for papers for the XVIII Celtic Congress in Salamanca is open! internationalcelticcongresssalamanca.com/index.php/re...
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CALL OF PAPERS | WordPress
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Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ag agallamh leis an Acallam - ná cailligí an chomhdháil seo!
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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @dias.ie · 19/06/2026
🎂 Today, 19 June 2026, we celebrate 86 years of #DIAS! Since 1940, DIAS has brought together researchers to advance knowledge across fields from physics and cosmology to Celtic studies and geophysics Here's to 86 years of collaboration and curiosity - and to all the discoveries still to come! 🎉
HAPPY DIAS DAY
Est 19th June 1940
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Cork University Press @corkup.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Did you know that “dánfhocail” is a word invented and adapted by T.F. O’Rahilly to translate the word “epigram”? Listen to an episode of the Pat Kenny Show, where Dr Ken Ó Donnchú – co-translator of ‘Dánfhocail: Irish epigrams in verse’ – discusses Irish sayings dating back centuries bit.ly/3S2PKef
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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Happy #WorldOceansDay! 🌊 This view of the Atlantic Ocean from Inis Oírr in the Aran Islands dates from 1914. The image is a modern print produced from an original photo taken more than a century ago, capturing the enduring beauty + power of Ireland’s western coastline: ow.ly/4bFL50Z8Gu8
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 08/06/2026
Táimid ag earcú / We are hiring! Fáiltítear roimh iarratais ar phost an Chúntóir Corpais le Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), atá lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann. Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 29 Meitheamh 2026 Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil tabhair cuairt ar: www.ria.ie/about/career...
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