Geraldine Parsons
@gparsons.bsky.social
Professor, University of Glasgow; Research Fellow, University College Cork @disappearingtext.bsky.social. Celtic Studies, medieval Irish/Gaelic literature, C18th MclaganMSS &c. Pleasantly shocked by hills. Emigrant 🇮🇪🇪🇺, sometimes returned.
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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...
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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](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pl2z62cfz2amebjtkbcbacpl/bafkreiabk45q6j5emcb3tptckb3hterixy4qwx2bfalsvsasd66wlf65xe@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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...
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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...
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...
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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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December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🚨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.
News and Updates | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
🚨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.
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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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November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...
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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..!
📚 Second Acallam publication alert this week! 🔔 Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's latest article, "A Reassessment of the Manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a New Version of Acallam na Senórach", was just published in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 72 (2025).
A reassessment of the manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a new version of Acallam na Senórach
Résumé L’Agallamh na Seanórach de l’Évêque Reeves fut éditée par Ní Shéaghdha à partir du plus ancien manuscrit dans lequel ce texte se trouve, RIA MS 24 P 5 (dixseptième siècle). Cet article…
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November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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!
📚 Second Acallam publication alert this week! 🔔 Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's latest article, "A Reassessment of the Manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a New Version of Acallam na Senórach", was just published in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 72 (2025).
A reassessment of the manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a new version of Acallam na Senórach
Résumé L’Agallamh na Seanórach de l’Évêque Reeves fut éditée par Ní Shéaghdha à partir du plus ancien manuscrit dans lequel ce texte se trouve, RIA MS 24 P 5 (dixseptième siècle). Cet article…
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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!
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Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026
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October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026
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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.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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!)
📚 New publication alert! 🔔 Prof. Kevin Murray's latest article, "Leabhar Ua Maine as an Early Witness to Acallam na Senórach", was just published in the North American Journal of Celtic Studies 9:2 (2025).
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Project MUSE - Leabhar Ua Maine as an early witness to Acallam na senórach
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November 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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!)
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
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November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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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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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Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The Lecture will explore the implications for Gaelic arising from the rapid development of AI
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November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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.
University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows
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November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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.
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🚨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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🦅 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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Eleanor Knott Memorial Lecture - 27.11.2025 - Irish and Celtic Languages - Trinity College Dublin
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November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨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
🔗 www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...
🦅 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
🔗 www.tcd.ie/Irish/gaeilg...
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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!
Book your free ticket👇
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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.
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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
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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