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Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

"Dark Forest Longing: Tales of Folk Horror & Nature Mysticism" (Ludwig Tieck, 2024) — H Y L D Y R Although today largely unknown in the English-speaking world, few authors in history can match the potent and uncanny darkness conjured by the early German romanticist Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853).

*Ahem* www.hyldyr.com/tieck-dark-f...

Illustration shows a cutaway of one of the longhouses and adjacent circular building, with inhabitants carrying out chores inside.

Reconstruction of the Pictish longhouse settlement at Lair, Glenshee, which spanned the C7-10th. The buildings were defined by turf walls, with cruck frames holding up thatched roofs. 📸AOC Archaeology #medievalsky

The launch of Old Irish: a beginners guide took place in the Royal Irish Academy. The book, by Dr Rebecca Shercliff, @cam.ac.uk‬, was launched by Dr Chantal Kobel, @maynoothuniversity.ie‬, and attendees included a number of students and staff from the DIAS Celtic Studies Summer School 2025

Learning from Aotearoa: A Path Forward for Scottish Gaelic Scotland can learn from Aotearoa (New Zealand), where Māori communities established Kura Kaupapa Māori (Māori immersion schools) and Kōhanga Reo (Māori language nests for toddlers) to defend their …

Great article in @bellacaledonia.bsky.social by @thinkuhi.bsky.social Culture, Heritage with Gaelic Studies BA (Hons)undergraduate John Scott. #research

tinyurl.com/28wuj2kv

Tha sinn ag obair còmhla ri @byleaveswelive.bsky.social gus piseach a thoirt air a’ ghainnead de bàrdachd cho-aimsireil Ghàidhlig do chloinn.
Fiosrachadh an seo ⬇️

This is a must-listen! Viktoriia did her PhD under my supervision @ceilteachomn.bsky.social, & her research on ideas about cognition, intention, & other aspects of mental activity in early medieval Ireland is so fascinating. This is a great opportunity to hear about her work 📚👇🏻

Guth Thormoid: Norman’s Voice The Island Voices project is featured in the new book “Foundational approaches to Celtic Linguistics”, through a chapter on the late Norman Maclean by Gordon Wells. This volume is a fir…

"Online publication also means, of course, that live links can be incorporated in the text, so that readers can quickly and easily sample the recordings referred to.. This is no small consideration for a primarily speech-oriented project like Guthan nan Eilean!"

guthan.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/g...

The manuscript of the week is the Book of O’Gara (RIA MS 23 F 16). It was written by Feargal Dubh Ó Gadhra, O.S.A., in the 17th century in the Low Countries.

Delighted to see this article of mine in the new issue of Éigse! "Manx lexicology and etymology: four case studies".

Ritual scenes depicting warriors being plunged into a vessel or cauldron, Gundestrup cauldron.

Scene depicting real and mythical creatures, Gundestrup cauldron.

Cross legged figure with antlers holding a torc and snake, Gundestrup cauldron.

Carnyx players, Gundestrup Cauldron.

I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of the Gundestrup cauldron until people start blocking me.
Have some.

National Museum, Copenhagen.

The pieces of the hoard arrayed against a white background.

The first pieces of the Lews Castle Hoard were discovered by detectorist Austin Hepburn at the Stornoway site #OTD in 1988. The Viking-Age hacksilver was wrapped in a linen cloth with fragments from two coins from Normandy and placed in a horn. 📸National Museums Scotland #medievalsky

if you dig two graves the cops won't know which one they're buried in

shivering in my dressing gown reading a book called The Frightful Occurrence at Westerly Manor and getting so scared by the devilish spirit described therein that I tumble out of my canopy bed and spill all the piss from my chamberpot

Event alert:

Launch of Rebecca Shercliff's "Old Irish: a Beginner's
Guide"
Thu 24 July 18:30 at @ria.ie.

Register: shop.ria.ie/products/old...

More info: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

The book will be launched by Dr Chantal Kobel (@chantalkobel.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social).

"provocative ideas about race" just say racist jfc

Wonderful news: the Gaelic Books Council (@leughleabhar.bsky.social) is offering a full scholarship to a student with fluent written and spoken Scottish Gaelic, to study for the M.Litt in Publishing Studies at Stirling!

See the link for more information!

www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships...

And in two weeks (21 July - 1 August 2025), I will teach two courses at the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics (@unileiden.bsky.social):

1. An introduction to ancient Celtic languages and linguistics
2. An introduction to Old Irish

Special features this year: On Tue 29 July I'll...

Hurling and Camogie – searching for the early medieval origins of Ireland’s ancient games Aidan O’Sullivan, UCD School of Archaeology Friday 2 September 2016 Introduction Ireland’s famous sports of hurling and camogie are stick-and-ball games played respectively by men and women, …

"Hurling and Camogie - searching for the early medieval origins of Ireland's ancient games" Aidan O'Sullivan (2016)

earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/h...

#Hurling #Camogie #Medieval #Ireland #GAA

the Torment Nexus

Seanfhacal na Seachdain / Proverb of the Week

🔥 "Is tric a bheòthaich srad bheag teine mòr."

"A small spark has often kindled a great fire."

#gàidhlig #learngaelic #scottishgaelic

The Buachaille Etiv Mòr in the scottish highlands with a running stream in the foreground.

Timeline cleanse. The magnificent Buachaille Etiv Mòr in the Scottish Highlands, from a trip in April 2022. #photography #Scotland #Glencoe #mountains

Work to begin on £8 million Gaelic cultural centre on Scottish island PRELIMINARY work is set to begin on an £8 million Gaelic language and culture centre in Skye to help protect and develop the language in one of its…

Math dha-rìribh - obair a' tòiseachadh air ionad Gàidhlig ann an Tròndairnis san Eilean Sgitheanach
Excellent news - work beginning on a Gaelic cultural centre in north Skye
www.thenational.scot/news/2529460...

screenshot showing a map of ogham locations (more to add) with search filters and an index of ogham inscriptions below

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham
#OG_H_AM

Oh! one of my favourite humans on the planet contributed to this ( Finbar McCormick), so you know it's gonna be great.

these are GORGEOUS

new manuscripts from Russell Library MS CF 14

new manuscripts from Russell Library, MS CF 13

1/3 📜✨ Two new manuscripts from Russell Library, Maynooth, now on ISOS:
CF 13 & CF 14, both by 19th-c scribe Seosamh Ó Longáin.
Religious + mythological texts, with elegant script & decorated initials.

Thanks to @mulibrary.bsky.social MU Special Collections & Lámhscríbhinní Choláiste Cholmáin.