🎉 Reminder: Happening tomorrow! Still time to register; link below 👇 Feicfidh muid ann sibh!

Brendan Kane@brendankanect.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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...

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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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...

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

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!

Deborah Hayden@dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

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...

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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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...

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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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 💻

#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

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)

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

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.

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Even an effort to catalog and digitize the papers of Thomas Gage, a British general in the American Revolution, was guilty of “promoting inclusivity and diversity in historical research.” + Important update on the lawsuit fr AHA, MLA, ACLS etc. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

“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...

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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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. https://youtube.pulse.ly/fjozsvled7

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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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...

Very much looking forward to reading this. Congrats to Sonia!!

Krista Kesselring@kjkesselring.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Delighted to find in the mail today my hard copy of Sonia Tycko's 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700' -- an outstanding book that warrants a wide readership. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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...

Brendan Kane@brendankanect.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Just pushing up the registration link for the virtual book launch here 👇. See you there!

Today at 1pm in Dublinia!

Deborah Hayden@dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Free lunchtime lecture! I’ll be giving a talk at the Dublinia Museum next week on ‘𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜: 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’ Thursday 5th March, 1pm Still a few tickets left on Eventbrite – all welcome! www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublinia-s...

Earlier this week, Peadar sat down to talk with Éanna Ó Caollaí from the Irish Times, check it out: www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...

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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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...

The Ulster Cycle with Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn

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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...

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...

Happening this Thursday!

Deborah Hayden@dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Free lunchtime lecture! I’ll be giving a talk at the Dublinia Museum next week on ‘𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜: 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’ Thursday 5th March, 1pm Still a few tickets left on Eventbrite – all welcome! www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublinia-s...

Déardaoin na seachtaine seo beidh mé ag caint ar an gcnámh seo agus cnámha eile (!) den chineál céanna 👇

Royal Irish Academy@ria.ie · 5mo ago

Bígí linn! Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social ! Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/2033868

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...

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!

Just pushing up the registration link for the virtual book launch here 👇. See you there!

Joshua Byron Smith@joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge) and John McCafferty (UCD) will offer responses to the volume. Catherine McKenna (Harvard) will serve as moderator. All are welcome to attend this free virtual event. Advanced registration is required: uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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'. 👑

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...

Irish Studies Seminar: Patrick Gleeson (23/2/26)

YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies

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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!

Joshua Byron Smith@joshuabyronsmith.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Celtic Studies Association of North America is happy to announce a virtual book launch for An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Brendan Kane (U Connecticut) and Patrick Wadden (Dublin City University) on Thur, March 12 at 1:00 PM (EST) / 5:00 (Ireland).