Lorna Carson
@lornacarson.bsky.social
Applied linguist, Dublin. Likes to be busy & likes doing nothing in equal measures.
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/ and help us spread the word!
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/ and help us spread the word!
Really powerful South African documentary screened at #ISB2025, “Free to Learn - Soze ungayibambi”, on the use of isiXhosa as well as English from Grade 4 in Basic Education. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGg...
Documentary Launch| FREE TO LEARN: SOZE UNGAYIBAMBI!| 26 September 2024
YouTube video by Centre for Multilingualism & Diversities Research
m.youtube.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Really powerful South African documentary screened at #ISB2025, “Free to Learn - Soze ungayibambi”, on the use of isiXhosa as well as English from Grade 4 in Basic Education. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGg...
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#IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
🔔EXCITING NEWS🔔
🟢 #IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
Linguistics in Ireland: Reflecting on the past, looking to the future
📍 @tcddublin.bsky.social
📩 Submit abstract by 31 May 2025:
forms.gle/7Xfk8aX49zdR...
Queries: iraal2025conference@gmail.com
🟢 #IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
Linguistics in Ireland: Reflecting on the past, looking to the future
📍 @tcddublin.bsky.social
📩 Submit abstract by 31 May 2025:
forms.gle/7Xfk8aX49zdR...
Queries: iraal2025conference@gmail.com
forms.gle
April 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéar
Maybe you always knew deep down that we linguists are just lovely people, right?! Join us tomorrow for this public talk in @tcddublin.bsky.social and learn why… www.eventbrite.ie/e/why-lingui...
Why Linguistics makes one a better person (and makes them feel better)
Why Linguistics makes one a better person (and makes them feel better). A genderized point of view on Italian.
www.eventbrite.ie
March 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Maybe you always knew deep down that we linguists are just lovely people, right?! Join us tomorrow for this public talk in @tcddublin.bsky.social and learn why… www.eventbrite.ie/e/why-lingui...
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Planning to study @tcddublin.bsky.social but need to boost your English first, or know someone who will be?
We have a beneficial 10-week full-time Pre-sessional English Language Programme to assist your transition to your new place of study.
👉 Learn more at
www.tcd.ie/slscs/englis...
We have a beneficial 10-week full-time Pre-sessional English Language Programme to assist your transition to your new place of study.
👉 Learn more at
www.tcd.ie/slscs/englis...
March 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Planning to study @tcddublin.bsky.social but need to boost your English first, or know someone who will be?
We have a beneficial 10-week full-time Pre-sessional English Language Programme to assist your transition to your new place of study.
👉 Learn more at
www.tcd.ie/slscs/englis...
We have a beneficial 10-week full-time Pre-sessional English Language Programme to assist your transition to your new place of study.
👉 Learn more at
www.tcd.ie/slscs/englis...
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The new video conferencing facility, which is hosted by SignVideo, will offer both Irish Sign Language (ISL) or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting at the touch of a button and has been launched during National Sign Language Week.
Police Service launches new sign language video relay service
The new video conferencing facility, which is hosted by SignVideo, will offer both Irish Sign Language (ISL) or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting at the touch of a button and has been launched ...
www.loveballymena.online
March 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The new video conferencing facility, which is hosted by SignVideo, will offer both Irish Sign Language (ISL) or British Sign Language (BSL) interpreting at the touch of a button and has been launched during National Sign Language Week.
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Dublin friends and colleagues, I'm coming to Trinity next Monday 24th March to give the @historytcd.bsky.social Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture. All welcome, starts at 4pm in @tlrhub.bsky.social. Really looking forward to bringing this new research back to the alma mater!
Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture - A City in Translation: Multilingual Lives in Early Modern London
A seminar by Dr John Gallagher (University of Leeds) as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series.
www.tcd.ie
March 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dublin friends and colleagues, I'm coming to Trinity next Monday 24th March to give the @historytcd.bsky.social Aidan Clarke Memorial Lecture. All welcome, starts at 4pm in @tlrhub.bsky.social. Really looking forward to bringing this new research back to the alma mater!
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Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions
March 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Fully funded (NWO) PhD position opening soon on Multilingualism, Identity and Emotions in Post-migratory Settings. Co-supervised by myself and Hadi Mirvehedi. Come join us at the @unigroningen.bsky.social's Centre for Language and Cognition 💜 email me if you have preliminary questions
We are hiring! The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcdslscs.bsky.social seeks an Asst Prof in Applied Sign Linguistics, specific purposes contract. Full details at www.tcd.ie/vacancies
March 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
We are hiring! The Centre for Deaf Studies at @tcdslscs.bsky.social seeks an Asst Prof in Applied Sign Linguistics, specific purposes contract. Full details at www.tcd.ie/vacancies
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My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
March 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
Help us find our colleague @yecidortega.bsky.social / last seen two weeks ago in Germany.
February 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Help us find our colleague @yecidortega.bsky.social / last seen two weeks ago in Germany.
Tomorrow @tcddublin.bsky.social @tricondublin.bsky.social - seminar on Anti-Racism in Equality Law.
Join us on Feb 25th at 5.30pm for an exciting seminar @tricondublin.bsky.social where Prof Shreya Atrey @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social will speak on ‘Anti-Racism in Equality Law’, with comments from Prof Mark Bell & chaired by @tricondublin.bsky.social Director @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Tomorrow @tcddublin.bsky.social @tricondublin.bsky.social - seminar on Anti-Racism in Equality Law.
The world definitely needs more cross-cultural and cross-linguistic friendships - bbc.com/future/artic...
'I call her my Italian sister': The power of cross-cultural friendships
What happens when we make friends across borders? Two writers talk about their British-Italian friendship – and the fascinating cognitive science on such cross-cultural bonds.
bbc.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The world definitely needs more cross-cultural and cross-linguistic friendships - bbc.com/future/artic...
Welcome to @tcdslscs.bsky.social School of Linguistics to Bluesky! @tcddublin.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Welcome to @tcdslscs.bsky.social School of Linguistics to Bluesky! @tcddublin.bsky.social
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📢Calling all Irish English speakers📢
PhD research on "the expression of the perfect" in Irish English.
Short questionnaire (6 Qs) found at the link below 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
PhD research on "the expression of the perfect" in Irish English.
Short questionnaire (6 Qs) found at the link below 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Questionnaire on the expression of the perfect.
INFORMED CONSENT FORM FOR ADULTS
Variation of the expression of the perfect in Northern and Southern Irish English.
Invitation: I invite you to participate in a research project conducted by PhD stude...
docs.google.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📢Calling all Irish English speakers📢
PhD research on "the expression of the perfect" in Irish English.
Short questionnaire (6 Qs) found at the link below 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
PhD research on "the expression of the perfect" in Irish English.
Short questionnaire (6 Qs) found at the link below 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our book club’s selection for this term, sourced from the ever reliable @kennysbookshop.bsky.social in Galway. No spoilers please 😅
January 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Our book club’s selection for this term, sourced from the ever reliable @kennysbookshop.bsky.social in Galway. No spoilers please 😅
Great to see our secondhand book sale up and running again, always one of the best bits in the Trinity year. Takes huge amounts of work from a team of volunteers @tcddublin.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Great to see our secondhand book sale up and running again, always one of the best bits in the Trinity year. Takes huge amounts of work from a team of volunteers @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Become a superdialectologist! Young linguists help to record Czechia’s dialects english.radio.cz/bec...
Become a superdialectologist! Young linguists help to record
The Czech Academy of Sciences’ Institute of the Czech Language is recruiting young language enthusiasts to document dialects and the endangered speech of older generations.
english.radio.cz
January 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Become a superdialectologist! Young linguists help to record Czechia’s dialects english.radio.cz/bec...
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'Britain’s cities are multilingual, but utopian visions of equality are being cancelled', a new blog by Yaron Matras, author of SPEECH AND THE CITY
📝 Read now at cup.org/4hBzrfY
📝 Read now at cup.org/4hBzrfY
January 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
'Britain’s cities are multilingual, but utopian visions of equality are being cancelled', a new blog by Yaron Matras, author of SPEECH AND THE CITY
📝 Read now at cup.org/4hBzrfY
📝 Read now at cup.org/4hBzrfY
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Join "Improving Your British Sign Language" author @leroseluigi.bsky.social sky.social in conversation with Dr. Isabelle Heyerick on his new book, March 11th as part of @tcddublin.bsky.social CDS Hybrid Lecture seires.
RSVP at the link below
cup.org/4jvIwbC
RSVP at the link below
cup.org/4jvIwbC
January 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Join "Improving Your British Sign Language" author @leroseluigi.bsky.social sky.social in conversation with Dr. Isabelle Heyerick on his new book, March 11th as part of @tcddublin.bsky.social CDS Hybrid Lecture seires.
RSVP at the link below
cup.org/4jvIwbC
RSVP at the link below
cup.org/4jvIwbC