@pomuirch.bsky.social
Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | #siaradcymraeg
Cuairt iontach ag mic léinn #Gàidhlig Ollscoil Dhún Éideann ar Ollscoil na Banríona i mBéal Feirste le cúpla lá: iontaisí na Gaeilge i mBF feicithe acu - an Droichead, an Chultúrlann, Raidió Fáilte agus eile. An dara bliain den scéim seo, a bhuíochas sin ar Fhoras na #Gaeilge.
🎉 Reminder: Happening tomorrow! Still time to register; link below 👇 Feicfidh muid ann sibh!
Creimeadh leanúnach … stádas na hollscoile mar ollscoil ‘dhátheangach’ caite i dtraipisí. Lagaithris á déanamh ar institiúidí Sasancha den tríú grád.
Word of the Day: amryddawn geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html... i.e. multitalented, to describe Iolo Morganwg who was born on this date in 1747. He was a poet and antiquarian but also active in many other fields and a fervent campaigner for the abolition of slavery.
As ucht dílis Dé, fostaigh cóipeagarthóir!
Alt nua-fhoilsithe in Éire-Ireland:
“The undignified conduct of the ostrich”: The Gaelic League, the parish priest and the Kiltimagh doctor controversy of 1905.
[Requires an institutional subscription, happy to send on a copy via email if anyone wants one]
muse.jhu.edu/article/981610
A guide to Medieval Gaelic's witty advice, sayings and guidance. Aidan Doyle & Ken Ó Donnchú @ucc.ie @corkup.bsky.social on the witty dánfhocail containing advice and guidance on topics like wealth, love and drink www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Alt nua-fhoilsithe in Éire-Ireland:
“The undignified conduct of the ostrich”: The Gaelic League, the parish priest and the Kiltimagh doctor controversy of 1905.
[Requires an institutional subscription, happy to send on a copy via email if anyone wants one]
muse.jhu.edu/article/981610
It’s works for me, across multiple devices. You could try googling ‘Bannerman Lecture 2026 Edmonds’.
Former Burns Scholar Claire Connolly will be back at BC to discuss her new book, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History
Join us in Connolly House this Wednesday, March 11, at 5 pm to hear all about it!
Comhghairdeas leat!
Thurs 26 March, Prof. Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Memorial Lecture (in-person and online), on a topic close to Bannerman's own work: 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'.
Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More info 👇
hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...
On 16 Sept 1642 Rosa O'Doherty signed this letter. Here it is for #InternationalWomensDay , 384 years later. This is possibly a unique surviving example of a 17thC signature of a #Gaelic Irishwoman. (The letter is now in @ucdarchives.bsky.social as part of the Franciscan collection)
Glè thoilichte a bhith a' toirt seachd na h-òraid seo a-nochd do Chomann Gàidhlig Inbhir Nis. A' dèanamh fiughair ri bhith faicinn na Cultarlainne airson a' chiad uair cuideachd!
Very happy to be delivering this lecture tonight on the #Manx #Gaelic Bible in Inverness's new Gaelic centre!
I had a fantastic sneak peak at the @rialibrary.bsky.social Genesis Bone ahead of @pomuirch.bsky.social’s lunchtime lecture today, an animal bone carved with biblical text by 19th-century Irish language scholar Thaddeus Connellan! 📜🦴
Go raibh míle maith agat faoi theacht, a Chonchúir!
Go raibh míle maith ag @rialibrary.bsky.social as an gcuireadh caint a thabhairt inniu mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge.
Happening one week from today! Please join Patrick Wadden, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, John McCafferty, Catherine McKenna, me, and bunch of your best Celticists friends for the virtual book launch of An Eoraip. Register at uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Shame these aren’t back to back, there’s a sort of overlap! I’m really sorry to miss it!
Earlier this week, Peadar sat down to talk with Éanna Ó Caollaí from the Irish Times, check it out: www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...
Tomorrow we are hosting Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh who will delivery a lecture in Irish providing a glimpse into the background of the bones, the inscriptions and the man behind them all. Tickets available: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Looking forward to giving this 👇 public talk tomorrow in @ria.ie on a very unusual Irish-language item. I nGaeilge a bheas an chaint fhéin!
It is *not* a human bone!
*Not* a human bone! But a story of colonial asymmetries nonetheless!
Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social amárach! Tuilleadh eolais anseo: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
Agus foilsíodh alt san Irish Times De Luain seo caite!
www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...
An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine
www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...
Déardaoin na seachtaine seo beidh mé ag caint ar an gcnámh seo agus cnámha eile (!) den chineál céanna 👇
Bígí linn! Léacht Am Lóin le @pomuirch.bsky.social ! Cnámha aduaine bíoblóra: Cnámh de chuid Thady Connellan i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/2033868