Tiber F.M. Falzett
@ampiobaire.bsky.social
Head of #Folklore | #Béaloideas @ UCD (e/sé/he). Co-Ed Folk Life. #Gàidhlig agam. #Bagpiping. #Birding. Ethnographies of communication, the more-than-human, natureculture, endangered languages. 🍁-ach thar lear ag baile san Oileán Epekwitk 🌊
Spotted this Swamp Sparrow singing a familiar song from last year’s cattails, one wing raised in a territorial display. A recent paper suggests their “song traditions […] can match the stability of those found in humans.” doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04728-1 #morethanhuman #tradition
UCD Library is looking for the next Director of the world-class National Folklore Collection. The new Director will ensure the ongoing delivery of services for students, faculty, & researchers in an exciting time of change. Full details & apply by 12 noon, 21 May, 2026 at www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs
So delighted to see that this is finally live - it was a joy and an honour to work on this super important project with such an amazing team of researchers!
Claire Nolan@drclairenolan.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew report comissioned by the @heritagecouncil.ie - Best Practices in Community Management of Heritage-rich Landscapes: www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/file...
My essay on Am Muileann Dubh and North Atlantic supernatural music legends is out in the Shaw festschrift. It starts with a field recording from PEI in 1987 and ends with a devil in a Cape Breton mill in 2007. “port cho math ’s a chaidh a dheanamh riamh” 🎻😈 doi.org/10.2218/rzpny992
Music from the Source: Am Muileann Dubh and North Atlantic Supernatural Music Legends | Scottish Studies
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Comhghairdeas le John Shaw, ar cuireadh an iris seo le chéile inómós dó, leis na heagarthóirí, Virginia Blankenhorn, Rob Dunbar, agus Tiber Falzett. Meal a nàidheachd air na sgrìobadairean eile cuideachd. open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...
Scottish Studies
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Portraid Dhonnchaidh Bhàin? Donnchadh Sneddon, SCOTTISH STUDIES 42/1, 2026 A copy of the poems of Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (1724–1812) held by @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has what might be the only extant portrait of the bard himself #C18 /end open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...
Cho toilichte seo fhaicinn an clò! Latest issue of Scottish Studies honours my PhD supervisor Dr John Shaw’s remarkable contributions to documenting tobar an dualchais (the spring of tradition) from which intergenerational knowledge in Gaelic on both sides of the Atlantic continues to flow…
Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social · 6mo agoNow published - A Festschrift for John Shaw 18 contributions on Gaelic ethnography and folklore in honour of Dr John Shaw Edited by Virginia Blankenhorn, @robertdunbar.bsky.social and @ampiobaire.bsky.social open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...
Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
i mo chleamaire faoi dheireadh! great day @nmireland.bsky.social with our #ethnology students, hosted by my former student Tiernan Gaffney, Asst. Keeper Folklife. Met Pádraig Ó Ruairc, tried on a strawboy costume he made, and watched him donate it to the collection! #folklore #mumming #BuachaillíTuí
Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson on ‘Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles’. Tuesday 1 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-sau...
Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles
How the UFO myth, in the form of reports of flying saucers, first arrived in the British Isles and became embedded in existing legends
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We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...
Folklore and the Senses
The Folklore Society's annual conference, in collaboration with the Dept of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork
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Chonaic mé an rón glas seo ar a Life in aice le Droichead Grattan tráthnóna inné… spotted this grey seal on the Liffey up past the Grattan Bridge yesterday afternoon! 🦭
Geabhróg ag iascaireacht ag béal na Dothra i gCeantar na nDugaí… a tern fishing at the mouth of the Dodder in Dublin’s Docklands…
Gaelic singer Mairi MacMillan, from South Uist, sent me this gorgeous song about the skylark, the uiseag, as a symbol of hope 🤍🎶 mairimacmillan.bandcamp.com/track/uiseag... Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
My latest post on Substack; an attempt to make sense of what it means to be a parent in a world convulsing with crisis 💔 Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope. open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
Aiseag | Return
On the active hope of parenthood, of wrens and skylarks
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Opening keynote of #nefk2025, Antti Lindfors on science and nsture imitation in contemporary self-care
Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr, taobh a-muigh fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla. […] Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.
Làrach-lìn ùr le stòras luachmhor de sheann sgeulachdan
Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla.
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Delighted to announce our new website www.hiddenheritages.ai/en. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. It really is a treasure trove of stories in Gàidhlig, Irish and English. Enjoy! @fsg-dcu.bsky.social @gaois.bsky.social
Decoding Hidden Heritages
Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland
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Canny Craw | An Fheannag Fhoghlaimte | Collegiate Crow #OilthighObarDheathain #UniversityOfAberdeen #SIEF2025
Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future:
First North Atlantic record of Streaked Shearwater
Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future. The bird was seen from the Cape May to Lewes ferry in New Jersey waters off the US east coast on 11 May. On the back of recent records...
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Tús maith le mí an Mheithimh ag bualadh leis na lachíní seo i bPáirc Hoirbeaird | a nice start to June meeting these ducklings in Herbert Park | Deagh thoiseach dhan Òg-mhìos a’ coinneachadh leis na lachagan seo ann am Pàirc Hoirbeaird
In recognition of his tireless advocacy for folklore and understanding the human experience, pioneering ethnologist Professor Henry Glassie received an honorary degree from @ucddublin.bsky.social last week 🎻🎶 Read more about the ceremony & celebration www.ucd.ie/artshumaniti...
#Wrensday morning commute started with salutations from my neighbour Troglodytes troglodytes - #dreathandonn #dreóilín #thekingofallbirds 🪶
Gur h-iomadh caochladh tighinn air an t-saoghal / 'S ro-bheag a shaoil mi nuair bha mi thall… An car a fhuair mi cha b'ann gum bhuannachd / Tighinn thar a' chuain air a' chuairt bha meallt’ -Am Bàrd Mac’illEathain #AChoilleGhruamach #TheGloomyForest #ÒrainGhàidhlig #Displacement #Migration #cianalas
