Aengus Ó Fionnagáin

YouTube video by Old Ireland Restored Making a local newspaper, Longford 1978

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Post buan ar fáil in Ollscoil Luimnigh - Ollamh Cúnta le Gaeilge (An Nua-Ghaeilge Mhoch go dtí an t-am i láthair)

The annual Irish Historic Towns Atlas (IHTA) seminar was back in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) this week to a full house and convened with the Irish Walled Towns Network an initiative of @heritagecouncil.ie

Read more here: www.ria.ie/2025/05/29/2...

Truly

The journal editors also seem to be unaware (or don't care) how Irish surnames are normally written, or of the use of diacritics in Irish:

"There is consensus that attempts to revitalise Irish via education systems show poor results (Ceallaigh and Dhonnabhain Citation2015)" (3/3)

"Irish politics are marked by the issue of reunification, in turn strongly related to attitudes towards the Irish language, i.e. the more pro-Irish language a person is, the more likely they are to be pro-unification (Darmody and Daly Citation2015)" (2/3)

Language policy in the crossfire in Ireland: can Languages Connect deliver in the Republic of Ireland? The launch of Ireland’s first official language education policy Languages Connect, Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education 2017–2026 (DES 2017) envisages wide-reaching changes for fo...

I find some of the language in this article in 'Irish Educational Studies' very partial: 'students are subjected to learning Irish' etc.

The repeated assertion of a strong connection between the Irish language and political outlook is also very odd:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/3)

B'iontach an rud é deis a bheith agam caint a thabhairt ar ainmneacha coraí ar an tSionainn ag @ria.ie an tseachtain seo mar chuid den seimineár 'Water, Towns and Topography' de chuid #IHTA agus ‪@heritagecouncil.ie

Government report concludes ring road won’t solve city’s traffic - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune A new Government report has concluded that the proposed city ring road would not solve Galway’s traffic woes – leading to calls to ‘move on’ from the €1 billion project. The Department of Transport ha...

Government report concludes Galway Ring Road will not solve city’s traffic problems

connachttribune.ie/government-r...

Surprise surprise!

Tha an leabhar A’ Ghàidhlig air Aghaidh na Tìre – Ainmean-àite ann an Iar-thuath na Gàidhealtachd air ais sa bhùth againn!
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The book Gaelic in the Landscape – Place names in North West Scotland is back in our shop!
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#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic

Beidh Scéal, forlíonadh nua Gaeilge, á fhoilsiú againn gach Máirt as seo amach.

Welcome to Scéal, our weekly Irish language supplement.

Hot off the presses! I’m Delighted to have had the chance to discuss the use of #Gaeilge in #EarlyModern #Irish #towns and #parliaments. Míle buíochas @brendankanect.bsky.social for starting me on this path.

Happy to see my book in print!

IGT V is the oldest surviving metrical tract of the Early Modern Irish period (13th/14th cent.), used to train students in poetry, language, and style.

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Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!

Dumyat - Wikipedia

And finally, before our afternoon excursions, Peter McNiven shares 'Place-Names of the Stirling area and Mentieth'. Carseland (flatland), Dumyat hill, Doune (dun), Dunblane (dol or dail, not dun, water-meadow). Cumbric, Gaelic, Scots boundary with Pictish, Gaelic, Scots en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumyat

Finally before coffee, Thomas Clancy of @uofglasgow.bsky.social speaks about 'Dark Waters and Bright: Place-Names of the Coalfield Communities'. The project will feed into Scottish place-name volumes ayr-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk

Placenames Database of Ireland The official bilingual database of placenames in Ireland.

Next, Justin Ó Gliasain from Irish Place-Names Branch shares "Scottish Influence on Place-names in Inishowen and Raphoe, Co Donegal'. Language interactions - plenty to research further. Burns, mosses and more. Calfpickle - poss predicament? www.logainm.ie/en/

Schools · The Schools' Collection This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

Followed by Aengus Ó Fionnagáin @unioflimerick.bsky.social 'The Schools Collection and minor place-names in Ireland' - sociolinguistic information gleaned. www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/scho...

First this afternoon is Sofia Evermalm-Graham @uofglasgow.bsky.social 'Dead men, martyrs and shipwrecks: death in Iona place-names'.

Finally this morning, Roibeard Ò Maolalaigh from @uofglasgow.bsky.social on 'The etymology of the place-name Stirling revisited'. Second element: could this be liä 'flood(ing)'? Verbal noun = all modern pronunciations/spellings can be derived from this. Sribliä!

John Baker from @namestudies.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social now speaks about 'Assembly place-names: some Spelthorny issues'. Governance through local assemblies - names preserved in DB hundreds/wapentakes + meeting mounds. Importance of trees? Recurrent compounds: assembly/speech mounds.

Next up is Jake King 'The names of the islands of Loch Lomond'. Grassom's 1817 map. Translations of Gaelic terms for visitors?

Some pics from our afternoon excursion to Dunblane Cathedral, with Dauvit Broun, Prof of Scottish History @uofglasgow.bsky.social, followed by Doune Castle with Peter McNiven.

Post fógraithe do Léachtóir le Gaeilge (An Léann Ceilteach), lánaimseartha, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Tuilleadh eolais: féach www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/ agus "Academic Vacancies". [Job for Lecturer in Irish (Celtic Studies) at the University of Galway.]