David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
@davidstifter.bsky.social
Ollamh le Sean- ⁊ Meán-Ghaeilge, BARE
Ceann Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad 🇮🇪
Taighdeoir ar ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM ⁊ DiAgnostic
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https://maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/david-stifter
Ceann Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh in Ollscoil Mhá Nuad 🇮🇪
Taighdeoir ar ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM ⁊ DiAgnostic
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https://maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-celtic-studies-philosophy/our-people/david-stifter
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Sengoidelc - An Siopa Leabhar
David Stifter’s Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, ...
www.siopaleabhar.com
By way of 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮:
In the last days huge numbers have started to follow me. So maybe it is appropriate to say something about myself.
I teach Old Irish at @maynoothuni.bsky.social and propagate it world-wide via my introduction to the language, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐨í𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐜: www.siopaleabhar.com/en/tairgi/se....
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In the last days huge numbers have started to follow me. So maybe it is appropriate to say something about myself.
I teach Old Irish at @maynoothuni.bsky.social and propagate it world-wide via my introduction to the language, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐨í𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐜: www.siopaleabhar.com/en/tairgi/se....
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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Vendredi 2️⃣6️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Post Scriptum
Et voilà !
24 textes, 24 exemples montrant que les Gaulois, loin d’être analphabètes, recouraient bien plus largement à l’écrit qu’on ne se le représente parfois.
Vendredi 2️⃣6️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Post Scriptum
Et voilà !
24 textes, 24 exemples montrant que les Gaulois, loin d’être analphabètes, recouraient bien plus largement à l’écrit qu’on ne se le représente parfois.
December 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Vendredi 2️⃣6️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Post Scriptum
Et voilà !
24 textes, 24 exemples montrant que les Gaulois, loin d’être analphabètes, recouraient bien plus largement à l’écrit qu’on ne se le représente parfois.
Vendredi 2️⃣6️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Post Scriptum
Et voilà !
24 textes, 24 exemples montrant que les Gaulois, loin d’être analphabètes, recouraient bien plus largement à l’écrit qu’on ne se le représente parfois.
It's the season of dying.
Last week, two university colleagues of mine died on the same day.
Earlier this week, Prof Klaus Zelzer (Vienna), a specialist on Late Latin literature, died in his 90th year. He was one of my formative teachers at the University of Vienna. In a very roundabout way,...
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Last week, two university colleagues of mine died on the same day.
Earlier this week, Prof Klaus Zelzer (Vienna), a specialist on Late Latin literature, died in his 90th year. He was one of my formative teachers at the University of Vienna. In a very roundabout way,...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's the season of dying.
Last week, two university colleagues of mine died on the same day.
Earlier this week, Prof Klaus Zelzer (Vienna), a specialist on Late Latin literature, died in his 90th year. He was one of my formative teachers at the University of Vienna. In a very roundabout way,...
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Last week, two university colleagues of mine died on the same day.
Earlier this week, Prof Klaus Zelzer (Vienna), a specialist on Late Latin literature, died in his 90th year. He was one of my formative teachers at the University of Vienna. In a very roundabout way,...
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 23
My News items from the DiⒶgnostic project come to a close for 2025 with a brief overview of other, practical things that happened recently.
Stavros Angelis, who was the Senior Technical and Digital Officer at the Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social,...
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My News items from the DiⒶgnostic project come to a close for 2025 with a brief overview of other, practical things that happened recently.
Stavros Angelis, who was the Senior Technical and Digital Officer at the Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social,...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 23
My News items from the DiⒶgnostic project come to a close for 2025 with a brief overview of other, practical things that happened recently.
Stavros Angelis, who was the Senior Technical and Digital Officer at the Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social,...
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My News items from the DiⒶgnostic project come to a close for 2025 with a brief overview of other, practical things that happened recently.
Stavros Angelis, who was the Senior Technical and Digital Officer at the Maynooth Arts and Humanities Institute @muahi.bsky.social,...
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Tá greann dóite ann nach bhfuil inaistrithe. Is bronntanas é seo do na Frainciseoirí anseo.
December 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Tá greann dóite ann nach bhfuil inaistrithe. Is bronntanas é seo do na Frainciseoirí anseo.
I don't think that this evidences a general Gaulish changes of s > h (> Ø), but it is rather a specific (pan-?)Celtic loss of initial *s in unstressed words. See my article about "lenition of s in Gaulish":
www.academia.edu/31776775/Len...
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www.academia.edu/31776775/Len...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I don't think that this evidences a general Gaulish changes of s > h (> Ø), but it is rather a specific (pan-?)Celtic loss of initial *s in unstressed words. See my article about "lenition of s in Gaulish":
www.academia.edu/31776775/Len...
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www.academia.edu/31776775/Len...
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
December 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This was the Old Irish Advent Calendar 2025, brought to you by the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social at @maynoothuniversity.ie.
Rather impaired by the flu, I wish you a happy Christmas and a joyful festive season on behalf of all my colleagues.
Rather impaired by the flu, I wish you a happy Christmas and a joyful festive season on behalf of all my colleagues.
December 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This was the Old Irish Advent Calendar 2025, brought to you by the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social at @maynoothuniversity.ie.
Rather impaired by the flu, I wish you a happy Christmas and a joyful festive season on behalf of all my colleagues.
Rather impaired by the flu, I wish you a happy Christmas and a joyful festive season on behalf of all my colleagues.
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Rétglu etir rind
We, the staff of Maynooth’s Department of Early Irish, want to bring the relevance of medieval Ireland and its culture closer to audiences in Ireland (and beyond) by disseminating our work beyond academia, for example through appearances in TV documentaries and radio shows.
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Rétglu etir rind
We, the staff of Maynooth’s Department of Early Irish, want to bring the relevance of medieval Ireland and its culture closer to audiences in Ireland (and beyond) by disseminating our work beyond academia, for example through appearances in TV documentaries and radio shows.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Rétglu etir rind
We, the staff of Maynooth’s Department of Early Irish, want to bring the relevance of medieval Ireland and its culture closer to audiences in Ireland (and beyond) by disseminating our work beyond academia, for example through appearances in TV documentaries and radio shows.
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Rétglu etir rind
We, the staff of Maynooth’s Department of Early Irish, want to bring the relevance of medieval Ireland and its culture closer to audiences in Ireland (and beyond) by disseminating our work beyond academia, for example through appearances in TV documentaries and radio shows.
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Medieval Irish History Podcast
The staff in the @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of Early Irish have a lot of experience when it comes to the public dissemination of their research, but none more so than Dr Niamh Wycherley. As part of her @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant, she started…
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Medieval Irish History Podcast
The staff in the @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of Early Irish have a lot of experience when it comes to the public dissemination of their research, but none more so than Dr Niamh Wycherley. As part of her @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant, she started…
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December 23, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Medieval Irish History Podcast
The staff in the @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of Early Irish have a lot of experience when it comes to the public dissemination of their research, but none more so than Dr Niamh Wycherley. As part of her @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant, she started…
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Medieval Irish History Podcast
The staff in the @maynoothuniversity.ie Department of Early Irish have a lot of experience when it comes to the public dissemination of their research, but none more so than Dr Niamh Wycherley. As part of her @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant, she started…
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
December 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Tá tú cosúil le Daidí na Nollag. Ní chreideann duine ar bith ionat níos mó.
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Tá tú cosúil le Daidí na Nollag. Ní chreideann duine ar bith ionat níos mó.
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
The MS of the week is RIA MS D ii 1, the Book of Uí Mhaine.
This late 14th century manuscript contains a late Middle Irish versified form of the 17 Wonders of the Night of Christ’s Birth. This apocryphal tradition includes miracles such as fruiting vines in the middle of winter🍇
This late 14th century manuscript contains a late Middle Irish versified form of the 17 Wonders of the Night of Christ’s Birth. This apocryphal tradition includes miracles such as fruiting vines in the middle of winter🍇
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The MS of the week is RIA MS D ii 1, the Book of Uí Mhaine.
This late 14th century manuscript contains a late Middle Irish versified form of the 17 Wonders of the Night of Christ’s Birth. This apocryphal tradition includes miracles such as fruiting vines in the middle of winter🍇
This late 14th century manuscript contains a late Middle Irish versified form of the 17 Wonders of the Night of Christ’s Birth. This apocryphal tradition includes miracles such as fruiting vines in the middle of winter🍇
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Irish manuscript culture
Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and…
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Irish manuscript culture
Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and…
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December 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Irish manuscript culture
Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and…
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Irish manuscript culture
Dr Chantal Kobel is a leading scholar of the material culture of medieval and early modern Irish manuscripts. Having held positions in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social for seven years, she has been teaching Irish palaeography and…
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Today is - also - National Robin Day: www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
It was therefore very appropriate that two of those critters celebrated the day with us in Brú na Bóinne.
It was therefore very appropriate that two of those critters celebrated the day with us in Brú na Bóinne.
December 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Today is - also - National Robin Day: www.rte.ie/lifestyle/li...
It was therefore very appropriate that two of those critters celebrated the day with us in Brú na Bóinne.
It was therefore very appropriate that two of those critters celebrated the day with us in Brú na Bóinne.
We had a great day out today - up early in the morning for sunrise on Winter Solstice Day in Newgrange (alas, no, we were not in the chamber...).
The magically lit Boyne River and the Visitor Centre at half 7 in the morning.
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The magically lit Boyne River and the Visitor Centre at half 7 in the morning.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We had a great day out today - up early in the morning for sunrise on Winter Solstice Day in Newgrange (alas, no, we were not in the chamber...).
The magically lit Boyne River and the Visitor Centre at half 7 in the morning.
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The magically lit Boyne River and the Visitor Centre at half 7 in the morning.
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OPal+
As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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OPal+
As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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December 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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OPal+
As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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OPal+
As a spin-off of the OG(H)AM project, our Glasgow colleague Prof Katherine Forsyth secured AHRC @ukri.org follow-on funding for the Digital Humanities study of the neglected palaeography of ogam. Even though strictly speaking a Glasgow project, Maynooth researchers played a central…
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Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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Dimanche 2️⃣1️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Plomb de Chamalière
RIG (L100)
Première moitié Ier siècle de notre ère
Dimanche 2️⃣1️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Plomb de Chamalière
RIG (L100)
Première moitié Ier siècle de notre ère
December 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Dimanche 2️⃣1️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Plomb de Chamalière
RIG (L100)
Première moitié Ier siècle de notre ère
Dimanche 2️⃣1️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Plomb de Chamalière
RIG (L100)
Première moitié Ier siècle de notre ère
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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Samedi 2️⃣0️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Cartouche de Martialis
RIIG (CDO-01-19) ; RIG (L13)
Deuxième moitié du Ier siècle
Samedi 2️⃣0️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Cartouche de Martialis
RIIG (CDO-01-19) ; RIG (L13)
Deuxième moitié du Ier siècle
December 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Samedi 2️⃣0️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Cartouche de Martialis
RIIG (CDO-01-19) ; RIG (L13)
Deuxième moitié du Ier siècle
Samedi 2️⃣0️⃣ décembre
#calavhist
Cartouche de Martialis
RIIG (CDO-01-19) ; RIG (L13)
Deuxième moitié du Ier siècle
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Ovine Christmas wishes from Theresa Illés.
December 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Ovine Christmas wishes from Theresa Illés.
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Cisalpine Celtic literacy
Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/).
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Cisalpine Celtic literacy
Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/).
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December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Cisalpine Celtic literacy
Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/).
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Cisalpine Celtic literacy
Dr Corinna Salomon (Vienna) is an expert on ancient, pre-Roman writing systems in northern Italy (e.g., www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwT...). She investigated the origin of the runes and contributed to Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum (tir.univie.ac.at/wiki/).
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⬇️ A remarkably informed article about deciphering ancient scripts (except for one big howler...).
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Decoding Linear Elamite and the lost scripts of the ancient world
Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated. Can new technology help scholars rewrite history?
www.nationalgeographic.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
⬇️ A remarkably informed article about deciphering ancient scripts (except for one big howler...).
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...
Reposted by David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...
206. Christmas before Christians
This week the wonderful Dr Niamh Wycherly from Maynooth University joins us to discuss what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year
www.goloudplayer.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...
www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...