Olly DH
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Mac léinn PhD i Roinn na Gaeilge ⁊ na dTeangacha Ceilteacha, Coláiste na Tríonóide, BÁC https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2795-4940
The programme for the @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie Tionól 2026 is out (26-28 November). An exciting, three-day programme.
University of Liverpool - doctoral funding in Irish Studies Applications to the PhD programme should ideally be submitted a fortnight before the studentship deadline, i.e. by 16 September 2026. PhD studies to commence in the academic year 2026/7. A PhD can start at any point during the year.
Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool
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Right everyone the wine harvest is about to start. Have we got our hedgehogs at the ready?
Comhdháil ar Acallam na Senórach, an tseachtain seo chugainn! Our Acallam conference is next week! 🗓️ Today is the LAST day to register for the conference dinner. You can register for the conference itself until next Monday 17th. Tuilleadh eolais | Registration details: www.ucc.ie/en/disappear...
As a coda to this thread, please enjoy Aneurin Owen’s attempt to restore the lost cat in his 1841 edition Ancient Laws and Institutes of Wales
Myriah Williams@myriahwilliams.bsky.social · last mo.This copy of the Welsh law (hdl.handle.net/10107/4400109) is known for its accompanying illustrations. Sadly the cat seems to have been colored with a corrosive green and now we’re left with a cat-shaped hole. Luckily, she is still ‘of perfect claws’ on her front paws! 🐾 🐈⬛ 3/3
Medieval science in action for the big eclipse day: SOL (sun), LVNA (moon), "Eclipsis solis lune obiectu euenit" (An eclipse of the sun comes about by the interposition of the moon.)
Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · last mo.An early twelfth-century diagram of a solar eclipse (from BL MS add. 11943, a manuscript of Macrobius).
That day when I was looking through a 14th-century romance. First impression: That's not a very good stag, is it... Closer look: OMG LOOOOOL #medievalmanuscripts
THE BAT'S A CUTE LITTLE ANIMAL: WIGGLES ITS EARS AND EATS WORMS (Evansville Press, Indiana, January 14, 1909)
Another great offer from the bookshop at @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie: 25% off all books on occasion to celebrate the Association of Celtic Students @celticstudents.bsky.social conference that is happening at the moment in Trinity College Dublin. Valid until Friday 19 June! 🔗 shop.dias.ie
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The 13th annual Celtic Students Conference by @celticstudents.bsky.social starts this Thursday! It will be held in TCD and over Zoom, with live interpretation for Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic papers. The schedule and registration link can be found at linktr.ee/celticstuden...
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Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 11th - 13th June 2026
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Today is the feast day of St Columba (Colum Cille), who according to tradition, wrote the Cathach (RIA MS 12 R 33) as a copy of a Latin psalter belonging to St Finnian in a single night. A dispute arose about the ownership of the copy leading to the battle of Cúl Dreimne in AD 561.
Hedgehog Conservation Ireland and researchers at University of Galway and Oxford are calling on people to take part in the inaugural Great Big All-Ireland Hedgehog Count
Call for public to assist in nationwide hedgehog count
Hedgehog Conservation Ireland and researchers at University of Galway and Oxford are calling on people to take part in the inaugural Great Big All-Ireland Hedgehog Count.
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Attention 2026 conference speakers! You should have an e-mail asking to confirm your personal info, presentation title, etc. Didn't see an e-mail? Check your spam—and if it isn't there, please reach out to celticstudents.conference@gmail.com ASAP. Go raibh míle maith agat!!
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✨ Scholarship: Scoláireacht Taighde Henry Flood, Roinn na Gaeilge, Coláiste na Tríonóide. @tcddublin.bsky.social Scoláireacht bhliana, €8,000 in aghaidh na bliana chomh maith le fiacha (leibhéal AE). Is é an dáta deiridh d’iarratais Dé hAoine, 26ú Meitheamh 2026. Tuilleadh eolais thíos.
🚨 Schedule, abstracts & registration for the @celticstudents.bsky.social annual conference in Trinity College Dublin this year. 🔗 linktr.ee/celticstuden...
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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Registration for the 2026 Celtic Students Conference is now live. This includes our conference dinner. Attendance at the dinner is limited to the first 40—so register ASAP! www.eventbrite.com/e/celtic-stu...
Scéim na mac léinn samhraidh 2026 Summer studentships 2026 Bí linn i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh! Deis le scileanna taighde a fhoghlaim. Stipinn ar fáil. Join us in SCS! A chance to acquire research experience. A stipendium is paid. Sprioc: 27 Bealtaine Deadline: 27 May www.dias.ie/dias-summer-...
Bígi linn! The conference is hybrid so there is also the option to attend online if you can't make it to Dublin.
Association of Celtic Students@celticstudents.bsky.social · 4mo agoCONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN Registration for the 2026 Celtic Students Conference is now live. This includes our conference dinner. Attendance at the dinner is limited to the first 40—so register ASAP! www.eventbrite.com/e/celtic-stu...
Comhdháil | Conference in Irish & English 🐦⬛ An Lon Dubh: Ceiliúradh ar an lon sa litríocht, sa nádúr, sa cheol agus sa chultúr 🐦⬛ The Blackbird: A celebration of the blackbird in literature, nature, music and culture Friday 15 May 2026, Trinity Long Room Hub. Registration: www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...
Tionól 2026 27-28 Samhain / November Sprioc: 3 Iúil Deadline: 3 July. @dias.ie #DIASdiscovers www.dias.ie/2026/04/30/t...
Ó Dhámhscoil go Daonáireamh 19 Bealtaine 19.00 Ceardlann ar an gcló Gaelach, lámhscríbhinní, agus ar an nGaeilge réamhchaighdeánaithe. Fáilte roimh chách ach clárú roimh ré. Líon teoranta ticéad. Comhimeacht idir muid ⁊ Club Chonradh na Gaeilge. Ticéid: www.tickettailor.com/events/clubc...
Ní bhfuair Fungie bás in aon chor, ach chuaigh i mbun dianstaidéar na matamaitice
Lukasz Olejnik@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 5mo agoFor instance, instead of writing π or 3.14, one can now elegantly write E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,E(E(E(1,E(E(1,E(1,E(E(1,1),1))),1)),E(E(1,E(E(1, …
28 Mar 1627: The first dateable manuscript penned #otd by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, #Franciscan friar, scribe, historian, lexicographer & one compiler of the Annals of the Four Masters (His signature from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )
24 Mar ?654: d. St. Caimín, founder of Inis Celtra monastery on the #Shannon. Here is the wonderful later psalter named after him, UCD-OFM Ms A1 from @ucdarchives.bsky.social
Meet the Bart Simpson of 16th century Ireland 😈 An Ceithearnach Caoilriabhach was a rule-breaking trickster in Early Modern Irish culture, a disruptive figure who left chaos in his wake, writes Dr Brianán Ní Bhuachalla @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...
