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Labhair mé faoi chúrsaí teanga & Ainmleabhair na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis - ba bhochtaide ar fad an tuiscint a bheadh againn ar log. na hÉireann gan na foirmeacha Ga a chuir Seán Ó Donnabháin (1806-61) agus a chomhoibrithe leo.
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Labhair mé faoi chúrsaí teanga & Ainmleabhair na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis - ba bhochtaide ar fad an tuiscint a bheadh againn ar log. na hÉireann gan na foirmeacha Ga a chuir Seán Ó Donnabháin (1806-61) agus a chomhoibrithe leo.
https://
tinyurl.com/2zs8s4f8
The History Show Sunday 19 October 2025
The Ordnance Survey in Ireland
On this week's programme, we’re looking back at the early years of the Ordnance Survey in Ireland. Just over 200 years ago, the British government launched one of the ...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Labhair mé faoi chúrsaí teanga & Ainmleabhair na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis - ba bhochtaide ar fad an tuiscint a bheadh againn ar log. na hÉireann gan na foirmeacha Ga a chuir Seán Ó Donnabháin (1806-61) agus a chomhoibrithe leo.
https://
tinyurl.com/2zs8s4f8
Labhair mé faoi chúrsaí teanga & Ainmleabhair na Suirbhéireachta Ordanáis - ba bhochtaide ar fad an tuiscint a bheadh againn ar log. na hÉireann gan na foirmeacha Ga a chuir Seán Ó Donnabháin (1806-61) agus a chomhoibrithe leo.
https://
tinyurl.com/2zs8s4f8
Lán an tí i láthair aréir don chéad léacht i séasúr an Fhómhair de chuid shraith bhliantúil Chumann Staire Bhaile Átha Luain
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Lán an tí i láthair aréir don chéad léacht i séasúr an Fhómhair de chuid shraith bhliantúil Chumann Staire Bhaile Átha Luain
Great to see such a big crowd of all ages attend a placename-themed walk of the beautiful Low Road along Lough Ree yesterday, as part of Heritage Week. Thanks to Minister Kevin 'Boxer' Moran for attending & for support from @heritagecouncil.ie & @westmeathcoco
August 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Great to see such a big crowd of all ages attend a placename-themed walk of the beautiful Low Road along Lough Ree yesterday, as part of Heritage Week. Thanks to Minister Kevin 'Boxer' Moran for attending & for support from @heritagecouncil.ie & @westmeathcoco
A busy weekend ahead - I'll be giving two placenames related talks as part of Heritage Week:
Cúpla lá gnóthach le cur isteach agus dhá chaint ar chúrsaí logainmneacha agus staire le tabhairt agam mar chuid de Sheachtain na hOidhreachta
Cúpla lá gnóthach le cur isteach agus dhá chaint ar chúrsaí logainmneacha agus staire le tabhairt agam mar chuid de Sheachtain na hOidhreachta
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A busy weekend ahead - I'll be giving two placenames related talks as part of Heritage Week:
Cúpla lá gnóthach le cur isteach agus dhá chaint ar chúrsaí logainmneacha agus staire le tabhairt agam mar chuid de Sheachtain na hOidhreachta
Cúpla lá gnóthach le cur isteach agus dhá chaint ar chúrsaí logainmneacha agus staire le tabhairt agam mar chuid de Sheachtain na hOidhreachta
Turas as Baile Átha Luain, thar Charraig Uí Bhraoin, Corr na gCloch go Bun Buidhre agus Currach Buí
August 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Turas as Baile Átha Luain, thar Charraig Uí Bhraoin, Corr na gCloch go Bun Buidhre agus Currach Buí
Na Beanna Beola as Gob an Phuint, Cladach Dhumhaigh Ithir, Trá Mhaírois - parthas talmhaí inniu
August 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Na Beanna Beola as Gob an Phuint, Cladach Dhumhaigh Ithir, Trá Mhaírois - parthas talmhaí inniu
Post buan ar fáil in Ollscoil Luimnigh - Ollamh Cúnta le Gaeilge (An Nua-Ghaeilge Mhoch go dtí an t-am i láthair)
June 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Post buan ar fáil in Ollscoil Luimnigh - Ollamh Cúnta le Gaeilge (An Nua-Ghaeilge Mhoch go dtí an t-am i láthair)
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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...
Read more here: www.ria.ie/2025/05/29/2...
May 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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...
Read more here: www.ria.ie/2025/05/29/2...
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)
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)
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...
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May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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)
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)
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Government report concludes Galway Ring Road will not solve city’s traffic problems
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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...
connachttribune.ie
May 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Government report concludes Galway Ring Road will not solve city’s traffic problems
connachttribune.ie/government-r...
connachttribune.ie/government-r...
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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
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The book Gaelic in the Landscape – Place names in North West Scotland is back in our shop!
🤓 📖
buff.ly/ItlVHzL
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
May 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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!
🤓 📖
buff.ly/ItlVHzL
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
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The book Gaelic in the Landscape – Place names in North West Scotland is back in our shop!
🤓 📖
buff.ly/ItlVHzL
#AinmÀite #Gàidhlig #Cleachdi #Placenames #Gaelic
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Beidh Scéal, forlíonadh nua Gaeilge, á fhoilsiú againn gach Máirt as seo amach.
Welcome to Scéal, our weekly Irish language supplement.
Welcome to Scéal, our weekly Irish language supplement.
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Beidh Scéal, forlíonadh nua Gaeilge, á fhoilsiú againn gach Máirt as seo amach.
Welcome to Scéal, our weekly Irish language supplement.
Welcome to Scéal, our weekly Irish language supplement.
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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.
April 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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.
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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.
irishtextssociety.org/publications...
Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!
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.
irishtextssociety.org/publications...
Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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.
irishtextssociety.org/publications...
Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!
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.
irishtextssociety.org/publications...
Áthas orm go bhfuil IGT V i gcló!
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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
Dumyat - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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
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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
Place-Names of the Coalfield Communities
ayr-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk
April 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
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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/
Placenames Database of Ireland
The official bilingual database of placenames in Ireland.
www.logainm.ie
April 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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/
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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...
Schools · The Schools' Collection
This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.
www.duchas.ie
April 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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...
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First this afternoon is Sofia Evermalm-Graham @uofglasgow.bsky.social 'Dead men, martyrs and shipwrecks: death in Iona place-names'.
April 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
First this afternoon is Sofia Evermalm-Graham @uofglasgow.bsky.social 'Dead men, martyrs and shipwrecks: death in Iona place-names'.
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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!
April 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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!
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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.
April 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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.
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Next up is Jake King 'The names of the islands of Loch Lomond'. Grassom's 1817 map. Translations of Gaelic terms for visitors?
April 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Next up is Jake King 'The names of the islands of Loch Lomond'. Grassom's 1817 map. Translations of Gaelic terms for visitors?