David Stifter 🍵📄🦊

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No, I don't, but @ndefaoite.bsky.social will be able to answer this.

Setting a bookmark in your browser may help. 😉

@ndefaoite.bsky.social, is there anything that Jef could do to improve the "googlability" of EMILI (and O3D, for that matter)?

There is a full entry for this Old Irish inscription in
@ndefaoite.bsky.social's EMILI database under the code GAL-002:
emili.celt.dias.ie/en/inscripti...

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Funded by @researchireland.ie (EMISoS project) and @ria.ie (Nowlan Grant)

Níl a fhios agam cá a dtagann "-in" an Bhéarla uaidh.

Sea, is "Kreml'" sa Rúisis é.

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 26, the Book of Fenagh. This 16th century manuscript is mainly a revision of an older Book of St Caillín which no longer survives. The mark the manuscript’s 500th anniversary in 2016, an online exhibition was created and two lunchtime lectures were delivered

Andúil: rud a bheith ag dúil leis a bheith agat i gcónaí.

Go hiontach!

Slí na gcrann ogham

#og_h_am cois Loch Uachtair Fheartraí @davidstifter.bsky.social

Seachtain amháin fágtha: "Lá na Matamaitice as Gaeilge" (12 DF) in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe @uniofgalway.bsky.social, socraithe ag @aonghusoha.bsky.social, Fintan Hegarty, Leo Creedon.

Agus mé ag obair ar mo chaint "Conas a choincheapaítear uimhreacha sa tSean-Ghaeilge"

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Poets and Poetry with Dr Elizabeth Boyle

What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2

We had a great turn out for our Book of Lecan conference, hosted in the RIA Library and organised in partnership with Maynooth University and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Pictured are two speakers, Alex Woolf and Seán Ó Hoireabhárd, with the Book of Lecan (RIA MS 23 P 2)

The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally

@unamullally.bsky.social faoin nGaeilge sa Ghuardian inniu. Tá an tseanlitríocht agus an t-ogham luaite i mbeagán focal, i measc rudaí níos tábhachtaí.
Is seafóideach teideal an ailt.

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AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems

IS agus an Ghaeilge sa @irishtimes.com

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Bilingual information regarding the *Widame conference, 7-8 November in Maynooth University. Register by October 10th.

*Widame (Proto-Celtic “we found out”), a conference for postgraduate scholars in Celtic Studies, will take place November 7th & 8th 2025 in 1.33 IONTAS in @maynoothuniversity.ie.

Conference schedule and registration is available here: buff.ly/b3GjydF

Register by the 10th of October 2025.

📜✨ 1/2 New on ISOS: Private collection, Lincoln MS 1.
Beatha Dhéagláin; Páis ár dTiarna; Ábhar Spioradálta
19th-c devotional manuscript (58pp) by Siomon Ó Faoláin, written for Mártan Ó Driscóil. Includes the Life of St Declan of Ardmore, the Passion of Our Lord, & spiritual texts.
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How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe

How the mantle cloak set fashion trends in Medieval Ireland. A highly valued item of durable clothing at home, the cloak was what made the notion of 'Irishness' visible and distinct in Europe, writes @maireadfinnegan.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Yes, OIr. is used far too little for all kinds of typological studies, mainly because it is known too little. And no, I cannot imagine how literacy could have contributed to linguistic complexification. Also, literacy levels were far too low for almost the entire history of Irish to have any effect.

I am not sure. I think the major factor for language shift is population movement.

As long as the writing accurately reflects the phonological and morphological distinction, it is fair to say that it represents the actual language accurately.

Brave new world. AI will make our lives so much better.

Yes, Irish was the only one that went about the GUPS (= Great Upheaval of the Phonological System) in a serious and thorough manner. 😆
But yes, it took place across a wide region and many language families at the same time. I don't think this is coincidence.

...and myself, from

"Écrire sur la pierre en langue gauloise" sous la direction de Coline Ruiz Darasse [= Scripta Antiqua 190], Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions 2025.
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La phonologie et graphie du gallo-grec_preprint Pre-print of a chapter on the phonology and orthography of Gaulish in the Gallo-Greek inscriptions (2nd-1st c. BC)

The pre-print of my chapter on the phonology and orthography of Gaulish in the Gallo-Greek inscriptions (2nd-1st c. BC)

www.academia.edu/144217967/La...

A section of ch. "4. Approches linguistiques et anthroponymiques des inscriptions en langue gauloise" by Coline Ruiz Darasse, Dagmar Wodtko...
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My contribution to Maths Weeks 2025 (www.mathsweek.ie/2025/), I will part of a panel speaking on "Matamaitic as Gaeilge" at Uni Galway, 12 October. My talk will be on "How to conceptualise numbers in Old Irish".

"Lá na Matamaitice as Gaeilge" (12 Deireadh Fómhair) in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe @uniofgalway.bsky.social, socraithe ag @aonghusoha.bsky.social, Fintan Hegarty, Leo Creedon.

Clár ag: etim.ie/la-na-matama...

Agus mise féin ag caint faoi uimhreacha sa tSean-Ghaeilge agus conas a choincheaptar iad.

It's a question of correlation and causation. I think there were other causes (e.g. rapid language shift) that happened to coincide with Christianisation, so maybe St Patrick and his pals played a tiny role.