David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
@davidstifter.bsky.social
Ollamh Sinsearach le Léann Ceilteach, BARE / Senior Professor in Celtic Studies, MRIA Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 🇮🇪 ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM, DiAgnostic, ⁊rl. ⚫️⚪️ https://www.dias.ie/
Very interesting. Where can the sketch be seen? This ogham inscription is not on Ogham in 3D because it seems we didn't have any information about it. In our internal database, it is only noted as "doubtful", without any further information, and it has been assigned the code I-MAY-L01 (L = "lost").
Aedh MacTire / Haydyn Williams@tine119.bsky.social · 4d ago#StandingStoneSunday Cloċ Oġaim , Ogham Stone, Sallagher, Co Mayo (recorded in 1950 - now believed to be part of the foundation of a house!) irishhistory.com/places/ogham...
Modern og(h)am of the day by Welsh artist Mary Lloyd Jones, kindly shared by Simon Rodway (@aberuni.bsky.social), & found in an exhibition about the painter in @librarywales.bsky.social. This is a particularly multilingual treat, reading Welsh IAITH below & Breton IEZH (= yezh) "language" above.
📢Táimid ag earcú / We are hiring! Fáiltítear roimh iarratais ar phost an Eagarthóra Bainistíochta le Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), atá lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann. Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 31 Lúnasa 2026 Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil tabhair cuairt ar: www.ria.ie/about/career...
It's a day of books today. Almost a month after the OG(H)AM project awarded its Og(h)am Achievement Award to "Carved in Stone. A Storyteller's Guide to the Picts", my copy arrived in the bookshop today. Wow! I can only say that this is a model of how to write a book about a pre-modern society. /1
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-...
The book is available from Four Courts Press at: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2024/m...
Four Courts Press | Moynagh Lough
Studies 1 by Michael Potterton, editor
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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊@davidstifter.bsky.social · 5d agoThis came in just now with the post. Michael Potterton (ed.), Moynagh Lough Studies 1, Four Courts Press 2026 Very beautifully done. Includes my article on the Moynagh Lough ogham inscription on a portable object. Pre-print: www.academia.edu/171047177/Th...
This came in just now with the post. Michael Potterton (ed.), Moynagh Lough Studies 1, Four Courts Press 2026 Very beautifully done. Includes my article on the Moynagh Lough ogham inscription on a portable object. Pre-print: www.academia.edu/171047177/Th...
Just saw someone post re: Emily Wilson "is this the most discourse ever caused by a translator?", and felt the misty ghost of James "Ossian" Macpherson rise enraged from a pool in Morvern
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Paperback version of my book available for pre order for the exceptionally low price of €26. Absoloute bargain if I do say so myself, thanks to the good people of Four Courts Press. www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l...
Four Courts Press | Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150
by Patrick Gleeson
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Many thanks to @stiofanob.bsky.social who sent me these picture for the #Ogham of the Day from a pub on Cléire (Cape Clear Island, Co Cork), where he was teaching in the Summer College (not in the pub, of course!). The oghams say Ir. PIONTA and Engl. PINTS.
The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 7, the Annals of the Four Masters. Two full sets of the annals were prepared by the Four Masters and are now divided into multi-volume sets. www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...
MS 23 P 7 (The Annals of the Four Masters) (Royal Irish Academy)
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Some monuments really are monumental – and Ballycrovane Ogham Stone is certainly one of those! You can find it near Ballycrovane Bay, not far north of Eyeries on the beautiful Beara Peninsula in West Cork. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #DiscoverIreland
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...
Book of the Dean of Lismore - Book of the Dean of Lismore
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A superb overview of/introduction to kingship in medieval Ireland by @hoireabhard.bsky.social. Going straight onto all of my module reading/resource lists! Thank you for this, Seán, @mattlewishistory.bsky.social & Gone Medieval. Tricky topic & handled so well. open.spotify.com/episode/687X...
High Kings of Ireland
Gone Medieval · Episode
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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...
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.
I have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene
Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...
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Thracian language, culture and history: an article for German-readers about the fragmentarily known Thracian language and the Thracians by my Vienna colleague Katsiaryna Ackermann. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Die Thraker: Gold, Gräber und eine geheimnisvolle Sprache
Goldschätze, Königsgräber und wenige rätselhafte Schriftzeugnisse eröffnen faszinierende Einblicke in die Kultur und Sprache eines antiken Volkes
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With @csanaceltic.bsky.social (The Celtic Studies Association of North America) now on Bluesky, it seems like a good time to re-share the Celtic Studies starter pack I started awhile back. I’ve tried to keep it updated but if I’ve missed anyone please let me know!
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 39 At the moment, the preparations for the complex move of the DiⒶgnostic project from Maynooth University to @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie are taking up a lot of our time. The project has to formally change its institutional affiliation, which requires signatures and stamps... /1
CSANA is now on Bluesky, Instagram, and Facebook! Follow us so you don't miss any updates - we have many exciting things planned! www.instagram.com/csana_celtic... www.facebook.com/share/1EJJN4...
Nous apprenons le décès de Venceslas Kruta (1936-2026), éminent spécialiste des Celtes, ancien directeur d’études de protohistoire européenne à l’EPHE. Nombreux sont ses ouvrages qui ont fait date et qui seront encore longtemps lus et utilisés par la communauté des protohistoriens.
✨️Vivien Law Essay Prize✨️ We invite all students and ECRs to submit an essay on any topic in the history of linguistics. Winning essay receives a prize of £200 and more! Deadline: 30 September 2026. See details here and get your submissions ready👇️ : www.henrysweet.org/vivien-law-p...
The Vivien Law Prize — Henry Sweet Society
The Vivien Law Prize
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The perfect reason to (re-)listen to epiosode 44 of our podcast, an interview with Ian Stewart (@stewartian.bsky.social) about the Celts and historical-comparative linguistics 😇 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/03/01/p... #Histlx
Podcast episode 44: Ian Stewart on the Celts and historical-comparative linguistics
In this interview, we talk to Ian Stewart about modern ideas surrounding the Celts and how these relate to historical-comparative linguistics.
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics@dclberlin.bsky.social · 2w ago#OTD 220 years ago, Johann Kaspar Zeuß (1806–1856) was born 🥳 An expert on Celtic history and culture, he published Grammatica Celtica (1853) that established Celtic languages as part of the Indo-European family. He is widely regarded as the founder of Celtic philology. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
For ye German-readers: I am very happy to see an interview with Georg Danek about the Odyssey in an Austrian paper today (www.derstandard.at/story/300000...). Georg Danek, now retired, taught Homer for more than 30 years in Vienna. Even though he was never a teacher of mine when I studied... /1
Altphilologe Georg Danek zu "Odyssee": "Ethnie ist bei Homer überhaupt kein Thema"
Der Kenner liest seit 30 Jahren "Die Odyssee" mit Studierenden, nun hat er sich den Film angesehen. Ein Gespräch über Auslegungen, Kulturkämpfe und Homer
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