Geraldine Parsons

The first day of sun in a long time and a lovely surprise in the post: the latest ZCP with my investigation of Reeves Agallamh manuscripts... and discovery of another witness of the early Acallam. 🕵🏻‍♀️ @disappearingtext.bsky.social

Ar 5 Márta beidh mé in @ria.ie ag caint ar chnámha (!) ón 19ú céad, agus go háirithe ar an gcnámh seo thíos atá anois i mbailiúchán an Acadaimh👇

Happening tonight, 5pm Irish time! Come to learn more about the early Acallam na Senórach and the new manuscript I've found... Stay for later rewriting techniques and scribal features 👀 @disappearingtext.bsky.social

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!

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Humanities Lecture Series 2025-26: Dr Sim Innes Gaelic song poetry & British Empire conflicts 1874-1903

Gaelic song poetry & British Empire conflicts 1874–1903
11 Feb @glasgow.ac.uk – free

Humanities Lecture Series 2025–26: Dr @siminnes.bsky.social
#Gaelic #C19
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Mar eolas, foilseofar alt eile liom go luath, alt dar teideal ‘The Tuatha Dé in the Tales and Lays of the Later Fionn Cycle’. Bígí ag faire amach dó ;)

Comhghairdeas Natasha!!

Programme for the Bonn+Marburg Celtic Seminar, Winter Term 2025

🚨 The next Bonn+Marburg online Celtic Seminar is next week, 9th Feb, 18:00 CET.
💬 Nina Cnockaert-Guillou: "Scribes, manuscripts and words: coming to terms with different versions of Acallam na Senórach" @disappearingtext.bsky.social
To get the link, please contact celtic@uni-bonn.de 🔗

Acallam talk alert! 🔔 Register at celtic@uni-bonn.de to get the link to Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's talk, next Monday 9th February at 18:00 CET.
@ninacnock.bsky.social will discuss some of the Disappearing Text project's work so far, and the (many) different versions of Acallam na Senórach..!

John Bannerman Lecture 2026 - Professor Fiona Edmonds | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Hybrid.

Delighted that Prof Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Lecture, co-hosted by the departments of Scottish History and Celtic & Scottish Studies, on 26 March. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh 👇

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And to you and all the family Lorna! Penblwydd hapus x

Let’s! will be in touch!

This is really lovely news - huge congratulations to you both!!

Great! Thanks so much Clare. I'll email you to talk about payment!

If the Annals of Inisfallen and the Annals of Ulster are still available, I'd love to take them off your hands Clare!

Meal do naidheachd Sheila chòir!

Cover image of Aiste 8 showing a view of boats in Greenock. Detail from ‘Greenock’ (1890), by Sir David Young Cameron (1865−1945) Copyright, National Galleries of Scotland

The contents page of Aiste showing: The Smith and the Sage: An edition of the heroic ballad ‘An Deilgnach Mhor’ by Duncan Sneddon ‘Crìosda Clèireach os ar Cionn’: Reconstructing a vernacular hymn by Mary Low and Michel Byrne ‘Dùisg thus’ às do chodal’ [‘Wake up from your sleep’]: Catrìona nighean Mhic Aonghais, a fresh voice from nineteenth-century Greenock by Sheila M. Kidd Aonghas MacEanraig (1866–1937), à Àird nam Murchan: A bheatha agus a chuid sgrìobhaidhean le Tòmas MacAilpein

Aiste 8 just published with articles by Duncan Sneddon, Mary Low & Michel Byrne, @macailpein.bsky.social and one by myself. clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

Deadline for contributions to the next issue of Aiste, Celtic and Gaelic's peer-reviewed, open access journal, is 28 February 2026 clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.ph...

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🚨Save the date!🚨A conference on Acallam na Senórach will be held on 21-22 August 2026, in University College Cork. Programme to follow. Further information will be available in due course at www.ucc.ie/en/disappear....

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🚨Save the date!🚨 Tionólfar comhdháil ar Acallam na Senórach ar an 21-22 Lúnasa 2026, i gColáiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. Clár ar ball. Beidh tuilleadh eolais le fáil ar www.ucc.ie/en/disappear... i gceann na haimsire.

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
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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..!

The 2nd major contribution to our rethinking of the Acallam's transmission - comhghairdeas leat @ninacnock.bsky.social! A huge moment in the study of this work!

Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026
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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.

This is an important addition to the scholarship on the textual transmission of the Acallam - an area of study that is expanding at a dizzying rate, often courtesy of @disappearingtext.bsky.social project members (stay tuned for further publication news from @ninacnock.bsky.social!)

Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The Lecture will explore the implications for Gaelic arising from the rapid development of AI

The 20th Annual Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture will be given on 2/12/25 by Prof. William Lamb on 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'
Details and registration:
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Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence The Lecture will explore the implications for Gaelic arising from the rapid development of AI

Thèid an 20mh Òraid Bhliadhnail mar Chuimhneachan air Aonghas MacMhathain a lìbhrigeadh 2/12/25 leis an Oll Uilleam Lamb air 'Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'
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www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... - Short-term research fellowships (1-4 weeks) available in the University of Glasgow Library, to work with our wonderful Archives and Special Collections. Do apply if this would suit you - a number of Celticists have been successful in the past.

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
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