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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.

‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

Deeply dodgy dealings … www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

Second camel is a crucial role! I hope it goes well!

Including an edition of an eighteenth-century Manx sermon on theft, by Christopher Lewin, currently a Marie Curie Fellow in Celtic and Scottish Studies @uoe-llc.bsky.social

Professor Rob Dunbar wins the RSE Sir Walter Scott Medal | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture We speak to the medallist and his students about his work promoting and protecting minority languages.

“Meal do naidheachd!” to Rob Dunbar who has won the RSE Sir Walter Scott Medal for his work on language policy, literature and culture. We spoke to students Elizabeth and Chris about the man behind the medal: https://llc.ed.ac.uk/news/professor-rob-dunbar-wins-the-rse-sir-walter-scott-medal

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.

We know he is Scotland’s greatest historian because he has told us so himself 😂 🤡

Plans lodged for crack down on 'obscene' pay of university principals Propsals have been lodged to crack down on the 'obscene' pay inequality across Scotland's universities and colleges

'The Scottish Greens have lodged an amendment to the Scottish Government's Tertiary Education and Training Bill – set to be debated this week – which they believe will help to "boost the wages of ordinary workers".' 1/2

'Obscene' pay of uni fatcat bosses targeted in new proposals before MSPs Greens co-leader Ross Greer has tabled amendments to a Scottish Government Bill to curb the earnings of top execs at universities and colleges.

The principal of Edinburgh Uni earns around £420,000 a year. This week his staff were on strike over the threat of redundancies.

It's time we got the pay of uni and college bosses back under control. MSPs can back my plans to do that on Wednesday.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

A-nochd 👇

I did seek his forgiveness (if not his permission); he got a chuckle out of it!

Glad to have written the opening chapter of this important volume. Nice to be asked to write something so close to home, the typos notwithstanding!

Tá stair na hÉireann i ngach coirnéal d’eaglais Naomh Isidore I gcroílár chathair na Roimhe Tá cur síos sna scéala atá ag Mícheál Mac Craith ar eachtraí na gcéadta bliain – ón uair a tháinig na hÉireannaigh go dtí Eaglais Naomh Isidore sna 1600idí go dtí an lá inniu

tuairisc.ie/ta-stair-na-...

Canna Lecture | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture Join The Gaelic Texts Society and Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh for their annual Canna Lecture by Dr Martin Macgregor (University of Glasgow), entitled ‘“Ach thèid an cran...

A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn.

llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

#Edinburgh colleagues, remember to contact your MSPs and MP to make them aware of the vandalism senior management are threatening at UoE through compulsory redundancies! #UKHE

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac. Written in Irish by Murchadh Riabach Ó Cuindlis, at Cluain Lethan and Lothra (Lorrha) in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary, it is the largest Irish vellum manuscript by one scribe.

UN peacekeepers shot at by IDF in Lebanon, says UNIFIL The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has said that Israeli soldiers shot at its peacekeepers this morning from a tank near an army position in the country's south.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...

If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday:

Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city.

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...

Binn gotha na dtéad The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry

Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!

UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March

www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...

The RTÉ News has it live and available, whether by design or good old incompetence!

Ní fiú cac an diabhail RTÉ, seriously.

For the evening that’s in it… To paraphrase Othello (and CJH), Michael D has done the state some service, we know it.

This afternoon I ran an embodied manuscripts workshop at Edinburgh CRC and we looked at some extraordinary manuscripts (just look at CRC MS 19👀👇), and I had the opportunity to spend time talking to some very interesting, engaged and enquiring students - honestly what could be better? Thank you LAMPS

Absolutely!

Wonderful workshop today on the materiality of manuscripts with @bryonycoombs.bsky.social at Edinburgh University’s Centre for Research Collections.

Laoch ar lár…

Maireann an grá atá ag fonnadóirí Chonamara d'amhráin Raiftearaí. Ceithre a cinn a casadh aréir i gcomórtas Choirn Uí Riada: Eanach Dhúin, Neansaí Walsh, Brídín Bhéasaí & Caismirt an Phótaire leis an Uisce Beatha. Agus bhí an bua, den 3ú huair, ag Michael Frank Ó Conghaile, a chas péire díobh!

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3