Olly DH
@grainneoga.bsky.social
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An chéad léacht i sraith léachtaí an earraigh
The first lecture in our spring series
Pádraic Moran (Gaillimh/Galway)
Sun, moon and stars in the Reichenauer Schulheft
5pm, 19 Feabhra/February
DIAS, 10 Burlington Road
www.dias.ie/celt/
@dias.ie
The first lecture in our spring series
Pádraic Moran (Gaillimh/Galway)
Sun, moon and stars in the Reichenauer Schulheft
5pm, 19 Feabhra/February
DIAS, 10 Burlington Road
www.dias.ie/celt/
@dias.ie
February 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
An chéad léacht i sraith léachtaí an earraigh
The first lecture in our spring series
Pádraic Moran (Gaillimh/Galway)
Sun, moon and stars in the Reichenauer Schulheft
5pm, 19 Feabhra/February
DIAS, 10 Burlington Road
www.dias.ie/celt/
@dias.ie
The first lecture in our spring series
Pádraic Moran (Gaillimh/Galway)
Sun, moon and stars in the Reichenauer Schulheft
5pm, 19 Feabhra/February
DIAS, 10 Burlington Road
www.dias.ie/celt/
@dias.ie
a day late but it’s always fun to make St. Brigit’s crosses :)
February 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
a day late but it’s always fun to make St. Brigit’s crosses :)
Lá ‘le Bríde sona dhaoibh ! Very lovely to see my whole feed celebrating and discussing Brigit today.
The Age of Christ, 525...Saint Brighit, virgin, Abbess of Cill Dara, died...She spent her time diligently serving the Lord, performing wonders and miracles, healing every disease and every malady, as her Life relates, until she resigned her spirit to heaven, the first day of the month of February...
February 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Lá ‘le Bríde sona dhaoibh ! Very lovely to see my whole feed celebrating and discussing Brigit today.
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For St Brigit’s Day, there’s a feast of writings for you by Maynooth scholars such as @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social amongst others, and by UCD Early Irish historian @elvabjohnston.bsky.social
Here’s her fascinating paper
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
Here’s her fascinating paper
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
February 1, 2026 at 8:27 AM
For St Brigit’s Day, there’s a feast of writings for you by Maynooth scholars such as @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social amongst others, and by UCD Early Irish historian @elvabjohnston.bsky.social
Here’s her fascinating paper
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
Here’s her fascinating paper
muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti...
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Ottid eiry ar warthaw reo.
gosguipid g[u]int blaen guit tev.
kadir yscuid ar yscuit glev.
Snow falls atop ice
wind sweeps the tips of sturdy trees
powerful a shield on the shoulder of the brave
"Llym awel", NLW Peniarth MS 1 (The Black Book of Carmarthen, mid. 13th century)
gosguipid g[u]int blaen guit tev.
kadir yscuid ar yscuit glev.
Snow falls atop ice
wind sweeps the tips of sturdy trees
powerful a shield on the shoulder of the brave
"Llym awel", NLW Peniarth MS 1 (The Black Book of Carmarthen, mid. 13th century)
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Ottid eiry ar warthaw reo.
gosguipid g[u]int blaen guit tev.
kadir yscuid ar yscuit glev.
Snow falls atop ice
wind sweeps the tips of sturdy trees
powerful a shield on the shoulder of the brave
"Llym awel", NLW Peniarth MS 1 (The Black Book of Carmarthen, mid. 13th century)
gosguipid g[u]int blaen guit tev.
kadir yscuid ar yscuit glev.
Snow falls atop ice
wind sweeps the tips of sturdy trees
powerful a shield on the shoulder of the brave
"Llym awel", NLW Peniarth MS 1 (The Black Book of Carmarthen, mid. 13th century)
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Tá áthas orm a bheith páirteach sa Chomhdháil Aiteach a reáchtálfar in @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social sa Mheitheamh. Seo an chéad chomhdháil da leithéid ina dtabharfar le chéile an taighde faoin aiteacht agus na healaíona aiteacha sa Ghaeilge. Gach eolas sa ghairm ar pháipéir.
January 23, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Tá áthas orm a bheith páirteach sa Chomhdháil Aiteach a reáchtálfar in @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social sa Mheitheamh. Seo an chéad chomhdháil da leithéid ina dtabharfar le chéile an taighde faoin aiteacht agus na healaíona aiteacha sa Ghaeilge. Gach eolas sa ghairm ar pháipéir.
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Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!
October 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!
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Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
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“Paws on Parchment” - this exhibition looks amazing as do the visiting kittens.
(Image below of four foster kittens who visited the exhibition at the Walters Museum shortly after it opened). www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
#medievalsky
(Image below of four foster kittens who visited the exhibition at the Walters Museum shortly after it opened). www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
#medievalsky
January 16, 2026 at 4:58 PM
“Paws on Parchment” - this exhibition looks amazing as do the visiting kittens.
(Image below of four foster kittens who visited the exhibition at the Walters Museum shortly after it opened). www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
#medievalsky
(Image below of four foster kittens who visited the exhibition at the Walters Museum shortly after it opened). www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
#medievalsky
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Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.
January 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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Let's focus on the detail of the text walking mesenger: first up, he is a "Postbott" (German for postal messenger). In short he is a "Bott" (or "Pott"), ein Bote. And the thing positioned before him is a German "S". So this reads as "S pott" meaning "Spott": mockery.
January 7, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Let's focus on the detail of the text walking mesenger: first up, he is a "Postbott" (German for postal messenger). In short he is a "Bott" (or "Pott"), ein Bote. And the thing positioned before him is a German "S". So this reads as "S pott" meaning "Spott": mockery.
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#HappyBirthdayTolkien
According to Ryszard Derdziński, the surname "Tolkien" is probably Low Prussian meaning "son of Tolk", ultimately from Slavic *tъlkъ
Slavic *tъlkъ from PIE *tlkʷ-: "talk". The form *tlokʷ- also survives in Latin "loquor", as in "loquacious", "eloquent", "locution", etc.
According to Ryszard Derdziński, the surname "Tolkien" is probably Low Prussian meaning "son of Tolk", ultimately from Slavic *tъlkъ
Slavic *tъlkъ from PIE *tlkʷ-: "talk". The form *tlokʷ- also survives in Latin "loquor", as in "loquacious", "eloquent", "locution", etc.
January 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
#HappyBirthdayTolkien
According to Ryszard Derdziński, the surname "Tolkien" is probably Low Prussian meaning "son of Tolk", ultimately from Slavic *tъlkъ
Slavic *tъlkъ from PIE *tlkʷ-: "talk". The form *tlokʷ- also survives in Latin "loquor", as in "loquacious", "eloquent", "locution", etc.
According to Ryszard Derdziński, the surname "Tolkien" is probably Low Prussian meaning "son of Tolk", ultimately from Slavic *tъlkъ
Slavic *tъlkъ from PIE *tlkʷ-: "talk". The form *tlokʷ- also survives in Latin "loquor", as in "loquacious", "eloquent", "locution", etc.
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New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
How Celtic languages spread across Britain and Ireland: why we need to reconsider the early story
New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
tcnv.link
December 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
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As medieval Christmastime adventures go, Gawain & the Green Knight may be the most famous. But I submit that the most amusing is Taliesin winning a bardic contest at the court of Maelgwn Gwynedd by getting other poets to go before the king, put their fingers to their lips, & babble:
‘Blerum blerum’
‘Blerum blerum’
December 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As medieval Christmastime adventures go, Gawain & the Green Knight may be the most famous. But I submit that the most amusing is Taliesin winning a bardic contest at the court of Maelgwn Gwynedd by getting other poets to go before the king, put their fingers to their lips, & babble:
‘Blerum blerum’
‘Blerum blerum’
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‘hart y uart y uvrt nadolyc’
‘beautiful to a bard his Christmas table’
Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (fl. 1155-1200) in his elegy for Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170) 🎄
‘beautiful to a bard his Christmas table’
Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (fl. 1155-1200) in his elegy for Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170) 🎄
December 24, 2024 at 8:55 AM
‘hart y uart y uvrt nadolyc’
‘beautiful to a bard his Christmas table’
Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (fl. 1155-1200) in his elegy for Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170) 🎄
‘beautiful to a bard his Christmas table’
Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (fl. 1155-1200) in his elegy for Owain Gwynedd (d. 1170) 🎄
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The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-13.00 & 14.00-16.30 Monday & Tuesday & until 12 noon on Wednesday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view. For more information about upcoming closures, visit www.ria.ie/library.
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-13.00 & 14.00-16.30 Monday & Tuesday & until 12 noon on Wednesday. No appointment or reader’s ticket is required to view. For more information about upcoming closures, visit www.ria.ie/library.
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🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁
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/).
📖
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/).
📖
December 20, 2025 at 1:55 AM
🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁
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/).
📖
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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2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh
2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies
Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026
Deadline: 5 January 2026
www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...
@dias.ie
2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies
Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026
Deadline: 5 January 2026
www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...
@dias.ie
December 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
2 scoláireacht ar fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh
2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies
Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026
Deadline: 5 January 2026
www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...
@dias.ie
2 scholarships available in the School of Celtic Studies
Sprioc: 5 Eanáir 2026
Deadline: 5 January 2026
www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...
@dias.ie
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It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.
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'Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...' in Scots:
The wind is snell the nicht,
It forfluther’s the sea’s white hair.
A dreid-na the rinnin o the Sheuch
By fell kemps frae Noroway.
[Old Irish isn't one of my languages but pleased with forfluther for fo-fúasna.]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_ache...
The wind is snell the nicht,
It forfluther’s the sea’s white hair.
A dreid-na the rinnin o the Sheuch
By fell kemps frae Noroway.
[Old Irish isn't one of my languages but pleased with forfluther for fo-fúasna.]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_ache...
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
'Is acher in gaíth in-nocht...' in Scots:
The wind is snell the nicht,
It forfluther’s the sea’s white hair.
A dreid-na the rinnin o the Sheuch
By fell kemps frae Noroway.
[Old Irish isn't one of my languages but pleased with forfluther for fo-fúasna.]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_ache...
The wind is snell the nicht,
It forfluther’s the sea’s white hair.
A dreid-na the rinnin o the Sheuch
By fell kemps frae Noroway.
[Old Irish isn't one of my languages but pleased with forfluther for fo-fúasna.]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_ache...
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hremn, m.n: raven. (H’REH-mun / ˈhrɛ-mən)
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
hremn, m.n: raven. (H’REH-mun / ˈhrɛ-mən)
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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Calendrier l'avent d'enluminures médiévales #calavhist, jour 12 !
Un magnifique dragon bleu pour mettre de la couleur dans votre week-end !
Harley 1662 f. 104, manuscrit copié vers 1470
Un magnifique dragon bleu pour mettre de la couleur dans votre week-end !
Harley 1662 f. 104, manuscrit copié vers 1470
December 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Calendrier l'avent d'enluminures médiévales #calavhist, jour 12 !
Un magnifique dragon bleu pour mettre de la couleur dans votre week-end !
Harley 1662 f. 104, manuscrit copié vers 1470
Un magnifique dragon bleu pour mettre de la couleur dans votre week-end !
Harley 1662 f. 104, manuscrit copié vers 1470
Today’s the final day to submit your abstracts!
The CFP for our 2026 conference is officially OPEN!
We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.
We are holding our 13th annual conference from 11–13 June, 2026 in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will be hybrid. Presenters are welcome to present and attend online, or in-person at Trinity College Dublin.
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today’s the final day to submit your abstracts!
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Stop press! I have a new entry in the “worst medieval attempt to draw an elephant” competition! 🐘
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Stop press! I have a new entry in the “worst medieval attempt to draw an elephant” competition! 🐘