Fabula Celtica Podcast

Welcome to MATER (Medievalists Against the Extreme Right), an offshoot of the @errnetwork.bsky.social at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. The network is run by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social. Get in touch for details of meetings and events.

I am not going to deny that AI transcription and translation is improving fast, but as a speaker and researcher in a minority language I am not lookng forward to a bunch of anglophones clicking a button and telling me about my specialism with no ability to check the originals

As far as nineteenth century horror-story-ending mortalities go, I think "musically induced to recall that you're descended from Selkies and challenging an angry seal to a fight to the death" is a hall-of-famer (Fiona Macleod, 'The Dan-Nan-Ron')

Ag súil go mór leis an ócáid seo! The biggest Acallam na Senórach conference ever 🤩

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

Cornish language to get same protected status as Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic Kernewek submitted by government for part III status under European charter for regional or minority languages

Good news.

The Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect today - but its significance will only become clear over time. It's a complex, incrementalist measure and much depends on how it's implemented. My analysis here
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

With 6.5 poets per acre, Ireland is especially vulnerable

www.wired.com/story/poems-...

Really happy to have this article out in print officially!! All Acallam enthusiasts will be interested in it, I hope 👀 This article brings important new things to light regarding the textual and manuscript transmission of Acallam / Agallamh texts..!

Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764-1834 by Sam Hirst

Oh no, the weird author scammers have found me. They love my indie release apparently.

It is, indeed, a book with mass appeal

stone carving of a goose looking back over its shoulder, above a fish

Line drawing of the goose with a weird goofy smile

obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose

In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across

Cover of The Triads of Ireland, edited by Fergus Kelly

Launch of The Triads of Ireland, edited by Fergus Kelly

Foliseachán nua - New publication 2
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
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@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers

Druids, leeks, and a dissection of Welsh colonialism - what more could you want from MY BOOK I'M PROMOTING?

I love this poem,

You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵

#OTD 152 years ago, Osborn Bergin (1873–1950) was born 🎂 Bergin was an expert on (Old) Irish language and literature, a translator of early Irish texts, and a poet. He formulated the so-called Bergin’s Law pertaining to word order in Old Irish.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026
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The latest volume of the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie is now available

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@degruyterbrill.bsky.social

A poster advertising the O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh for 2025. It will be delivered by Professor Brendan Kane at 4.15 on 10 December, in 50 George Square

This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.

Goes to show how widespread the impact of the Irish Literary Revival (c. 1890–1920) really was!

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic Devil or Double: Decoding the Demonic in the Scottish Gothic

Well, we had a whole conference celebrating James Hogg!

Here is one of our 'every week' talks on the demonic in the Scottish Gothic

youtu.be/siB7TnR227Q

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic Keynote 2 - Martha McGill - “Evil Company”: Internal and External Demons in Early Modern Scotland

And then we've got the keynote from our James Hogg conference talking about the demonic in Early Modern Scotland! (This is usually unlisted, so only available with this direct link!)

youtu.be/XCnChRNRTsU

Archive is an incredible resource for Celticists thanks to making hundreds of public domain Revival-era texts (including very useful scholarship) readily available. My research would get much more difficult if that ever disappeared. Go raibh míle maith agaibh, a laochra!

I need you all to know that a ton of folks put a HEROIC amount of effort into keeping Archive going this week

An Léann Ceilteach san Ísiltír slán … mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla Tá deireadh á chur leis Léann Ceilteach in Ollscoil Utrecht san Ísiltír mar chúrsa céime neamhspleách, ach mairfidh cuid de mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla

GRMA @tuairisc.bsky.social !

"'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚

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Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture - 27.11.2025 - Irish and Celtic Languages - Trinity College Dublin

🚨Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture next Thursday!
🦅 Dr Emma Nic Chárthaigh (University College Cork) will speak on "Intertextual weavings in the Colloquy between Fintan mac Bóchrai and the Hawk of Achill".
🗓️ 27th November, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 6pm
🔗 www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...

Ah, perhaps once again poets will hold an honored position in society.

This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?

OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!

The CFP for our 2026 conference is officially OPEN!

We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.