Geraldine Parsons
@gparsons.bsky.social
Professor, University of Glasgow; Research Fellow, University College Cork. Celtic Studies, medieval Irish/Gaelic literature, C18th MclaganMSS &c. Pleasantly shocked by hills. Emigrant 🇮🇪🇪🇺
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Our annual seminar jointly organised with @ucc.ie is happening this Saturday in the Venice of the North. Full details at irishtextssociety.org/events. This year we’re looking at The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Our annual seminar jointly organised with @ucc.ie is happening this Saturday in the Venice of the North. Full details at irishtextssociety.org/events. This year we’re looking at The Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore.
It's such a privilege to be working on this project with brilliant colleagues. Please follow along if you are interested in #CelticStudies, medieval literature, #medievalsky, approaches to editing and translation, Finn mac Cumhaill and more ...
We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our project, which will produce editions of the earliest version of Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', the central Finn Cycle text from medieval Ireland. New software will also be developed to help in this work. 1/2
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
It's such a privilege to be working on this project with brilliant colleagues. Please follow along if you are interested in #CelticStudies, medieval literature, #medievalsky, approaches to editing and translation, Finn mac Cumhaill and more ...
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For people interested in translation and human rights
Sign the petition to get the UK Home Office to listen to translation experts before they blindly implement automated (AI-based) translation for asylum cases.
If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.
If the Home Office is serious about protecting human rights, it must listen to those who work with language and law every day.
Sign the Petition
Home Office: before automating translation, please listen to the experts
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October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
For people interested in translation and human rights
I presume that the game wouldn't work if this said 'draw four CATS' but could you consider that alteration please @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ?
October 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I presume that the game wouldn't work if this said 'draw four CATS' but could you consider that alteration please @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ?
So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!
Join us this Thursday, 9 October, at @uofglasgow.bsky.social ARC to watch the beautifully animated film The Secret of Kells, with a talk on things Celtic and children’s fantasy by me, and a new card game devised by @matthewcreasy.bsky.social!
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October 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
So sorry to miss this medieval Ireland-themed event at @uofglasgow.bsky.social; a beautiful film, a brilliant talk by @dimitrafimi.bsky.social & an excellent new Book of Kells-inspired card-game from @matthewcreasy.bsky.social ... surely no better way to spend the evening on Thursday 9 October!
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Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
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Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
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Record Welsh Place Names | DataMapWales
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September 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Help save local Welsh placenames on new digital map.
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...
Helpu i achub enwau lleoedd lleol Cymru ar fap digidol newydd.
datamap.gov.wales/survey/wpnc/...
I'm delighted to be moderating this discussion tomorrow evening - hope to see you there!
Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 1:00 (EDT) / 6:00 (BST). Registration is free. Come and join us for a great discussion:
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September 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm delighted to be moderating this discussion tomorrow evening - hope to see you there!
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Yes! This... gemAI violates almost every element of academic and scientific integrity we claim to uphold. I don't know how people square this circle.
Yes. So much of this would be clear academic misconduct or negligence if only people hadn't been led to believe investor money is a foolproof loophole for laws, norms, and accountability.
September 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Yes! This... gemAI violates almost every element of academic and scientific integrity we claim to uphold. I don't know how people square this circle.
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Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested).
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577
Joint doctoral studentship as part of the DECADOCS project
‘Decadence in Translations: Translating for, and in French and British Periodicals, 1880-1914. Corpora, Translators, and Translational Aesthetics’ 🇫🇷 &🏴
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September 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Exciting opportunity to work on a PhD with me in Glasgow & Bénédicte Coste in France, on Decadence and Translation in Periodicals. Become part of 'Decadocs' - a Marie-Curie Joint Doctoral group. (Feel free to share with anyone you think would be interested).
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375577
An dòchas gum faic mi ann an Glaschu sibh!
Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn.
Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow.
Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.
September 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
An dòchas gum faic mi ann an Glaschu sibh!
I'm glad to read this (thank you @downham.bsky.social) - I've been disturbed by the lack of interest in the environmental cost of Generative AI in my own institution (or at least in the conversations that I've been in), even when the focus is supposedly on responsible and ethical adoption of GenAI
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
September 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm glad to read this (thank you @downham.bsky.social) - I've been disturbed by the lack of interest in the environmental cost of Generative AI in my own institution (or at least in the conversations that I've been in), even when the focus is supposedly on responsible and ethical adoption of GenAI
Really looking forward to this event! Can't wait to hear three wonderful critics of early Irish/Gaelic literature in conversation.
Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 1:00 (EDT) / 6:00 (BST). Registration is free. Come and join us for a great discussion:
uark.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
uark.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Really looking forward to this event! Can't wait to hear three wonderful critics of early Irish/Gaelic literature in conversation.
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News from the European Celtic Congress Bonn 2025:
After a very long gestation process, the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟓) has now appeared in printed form.
You cannot imagine what relief this means for my fellow editors and me, and for the authors.
After a very long gestation process, the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟓) has now appeared in printed form.
You cannot imagine what relief this means for my fellow editors and me, and for the authors.
August 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
News from the European Celtic Congress Bonn 2025:
After a very long gestation process, the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟓) has now appeared in printed form.
You cannot imagine what relief this means for my fellow editors and me, and for the authors.
After a very long gestation process, the proceedings of the 5th Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales (𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟓) has now appeared in printed form.
You cannot imagine what relief this means for my fellow editors and me, and for the authors.
Obair Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig, Oilthigh Ghlaschu @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Gaelic Development Manager/Manaidsear Leasachaidh na Gàidhlig
This job description is also available in Gaelic by clicking here. Job Purpose To develop and deliver policy in line with the University’s ambitions to secure a more prosperous and sustainable fut...
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August 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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One month to go.
The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social.
@researchireland.ie @ukri.org
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The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social.
@researchireland.ie @ukri.org
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August 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
One month to go.
The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social.
@researchireland.ie @ukri.org
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The completely revised 𝓞𝓰𝓱𝓪𝓶 𝓲𝓷 3𝓓 website, created by the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project, will be launched on 12 Sept. as part of the Teangeolaíocht na Gaeilge (Linguistics of the Gaelic Languages) conference in @ria.ie @rialibrary.bsky.social.
@researchireland.ie @ukri.org
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Come and join us in Oxford! We're advertising for a two-year full-time departmental lecturer in Medieval Irish Language and Literature. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Come and join us in Oxford! We're advertising for a two-year full-time departmental lecturer in Medieval Irish Language and Literature. Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Re-posting my upcoming lecture details - plus I am now reasonably confident that it will include a newly-identified early medieval source for the Moray Firthlands, which is quite exciting.
I'm giving an online lecture later this month on the eighth-century church in the Moray Firthlands - featuring brand new research on the 'shadowy' St Curetán (fl. 697), among other things. Booking link in the reply.
August 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Re-posting my upcoming lecture details - plus I am now reasonably confident that it will include a newly-identified early medieval source for the Moray Firthlands, which is quite exciting.
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'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇
August 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic' - a one-day, in-person workshop at the University of Edinburgh on 5 September. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More information 👇
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Thig a dh’obair còmhla rinn!
Tha Faclair na Gàidhlig a’ sireadh Oifigear Conaltraidh:
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Le taic bho @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social
Tha Faclair na Gàidhlig a’ sireadh Oifigear Conaltraidh:
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Le taic bho @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social
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August 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Thig a dh’obair còmhla rinn!
Tha Faclair na Gàidhlig a’ sireadh Oifigear Conaltraidh:
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Le taic bho @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social
Tha Faclair na Gàidhlig a’ sireadh Oifigear Conaltraidh:
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Le taic bho @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social
So glad to see these - from my colleague Dr Simon Taylor - are now available online ...
NEW RECORDINGS: Rhind Lectures 2025: Scotland's Place-Names
Covering language, archaeology, the church and more, all six recordings from the Rhind Lectures 2025 with Dr Simon Taylor are now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Sponsored by Ordnance Survey
Covering language, archaeology, the church and more, all six recordings from the Rhind Lectures 2025 with Dr Simon Taylor are now available on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Sponsored by Ordnance Survey
August 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So glad to see these - from my colleague Dr Simon Taylor - are now available online ...
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Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky
July 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Publishing this month, Storytelling in Gaelic from AD 700 to the Present, edited by Alice R Taylor-Griffiths and Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh, examines common themes and connections in #Gaelic storytelling from the #MiddleAges to present day. Learn more: buff.ly/o4MbAC8 #medievalsky
Really pleased to have been promoted to Professor of Medieval Irish Language & Literature today; thanks to many for encouragement along the way | air leth toilichte gu bheil mi nam Ollamh Cànan & Litreachas Gàidhlig nam Meadhan- Aoisean bho an-diugh. Fada nur comain airson ur brosnachadh.
August 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Really pleased to have been promoted to Professor of Medieval Irish Language & Literature today; thanks to many for encouragement along the way | air leth toilichte gu bheil mi nam Ollamh Cànan & Litreachas Gàidhlig nam Meadhan- Aoisean bho an-diugh. Fada nur comain airson ur brosnachadh.
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**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.
***SANAS OBRACH | JOB AD*** Celtic & Gaelic at @uofglasgow.bsky.social is advertising a full-time, fixed-term lectureship in #CelticStudies. Application deadline: 23 July. I'd be delighted to chat to anyone considering an application - my email is in the ad www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer in Celtic Studies (R&T)
College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Humanities Lecturer in Celtic Studies (R&T)Vacancy Ref: 177172Salary, Grade 7, £40,497 - £45,413 per annum. The University of Glasgow is seeking to app...
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July 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
**Deadline tomorrow!** A reminder of this opportunity at @uofglasgow.bsky.social for a Research & Teaching post in #CelticStudies, lasting almost 3 years.
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CFP: New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies
2026 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 14–16, 2026, Kalamazoo, MI
This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies.
2026 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 14–16, 2026, Kalamazoo, MI
This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies.
July 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
CFP: New Work by Early-Career Scholars in Celtic Studies
2026 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 14–16, 2026, Kalamazoo, MI
This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies.
2026 61st International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 14–16, 2026, Kalamazoo, MI
This session seeks proposals for twenty-minute presentations by early-career scholars working in medieval Celtic Studies.