Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh
@pomuirch.bsky.social
Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | #siaradcymraeg
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Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done!
#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge
Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture
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#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge
Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture
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Delighted that Prof Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Lecture, co-hosted by the departments of Scottish History and Celtic & Scottish Studies, on 26 March. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh 👇
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John Bannerman Lecture 2026 - Professor Fiona Edmonds | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Hybrid.
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February 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Delighted that Prof Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Lecture, co-hosted by the departments of Scottish History and Celtic & Scottish Studies, on 26 March. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh 👇
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Huge work to do on the experience of Irish-speaking emigrants to Britain, especially in the 19th century! An example of the untapped richness of the archive 👇
Another day in the archive, reading the diaries of a 19th-century doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. This Irish migrant's story was, I thought, heartbreaking:
May 30 1877,
"Yesterday I was called into a ward to interpret for an old man who had been knocked down by an omnibus. ...
1/2
May 30 1877,
"Yesterday I was called into a ward to interpret for an old man who had been knocked down by an omnibus. ...
1/2
January 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Huge work to do on the experience of Irish-speaking emigrants to Britain, especially in the 19th century! An example of the untapped richness of the archive 👇
Laoch ar lár.
Is oth linn a chloisteáil gur cailleadh Máirtín Ó Murchú, a bhí ina ollamh sinsearach anseo agus ina stiúrthóir ar Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh ó 1987 go 1997.
We are saddened by the loss of Máirtín Ó Murchú, former senior professor and Director of SCS between 1987 and 1997.
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We are saddened by the loss of Máirtín Ó Murchú, former senior professor and Director of SCS between 1987 and 1997.
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Death Notice of An tOllamh Máirtín Ó Murchú (Dublin) | rip.ie
The death has occurred of An tOllamh Máirtín Ó Murchú of Dublin Ireland, on 22/01/2026. You can view the full death notice and add your condolences here.
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January 29, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Laoch ar lár.
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A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...
Prizes and Funding
BAIS Book Prize The 2026 BAIS Book Prize is now open. We invite submissions of single-author monographs published in 2025. All areas of Irish Studies across a range of disciplines are welcome.…
irishstudies.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 10:50 AM
A reminder that our Postgraduate Essay and Bursary prizes are now open for applications! Deadline for submissions 17 March 2026
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...
See the BAIS website for details on how to enter and eligibility:
irishstudies.co.uk/prizes-and-f...
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Our in-person research seminars this semester @ceilteachomn.bsky.social - come for the cutting-edge research, stay for the post-seminar spring rolls & potato wedges!
January 27, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Our in-person research seminars this semester @ceilteachomn.bsky.social - come for the cutting-edge research, stay for the post-seminar spring rolls & potato wedges!
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If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
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Digital Tools for Manuscript Studies
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January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
If you have graduate students working with medieval manuscripts this free online training might be useful 👇
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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...in the glossed Latin text.
We made rather short shrift of Thurneysen’s non-committal idea that the double superlative suffix -imem has anything to do with dialectal variation. See for all this Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh’s @pomuirch.bsky.social 2018 article in Ériu (www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...).
We made rather short shrift of Thurneysen’s non-committal idea that the double superlative suffix -imem has anything to do with dialectal variation. See for all this Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh’s @pomuirch.bsky.social 2018 article in Ériu (www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...).
The sociolinguistics of the superlative adjective in the Milan Glosses on JSTOR
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, The sociolinguistics of the superlative adjective in the Milan Glosses, Ériu, Vol. 68 (2018), pp. 129-144
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January 23, 2026 at 5:58 AM
...in the glossed Latin text.
We made rather short shrift of Thurneysen’s non-committal idea that the double superlative suffix -imem has anything to do with dialectal variation. See for all this Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh’s @pomuirch.bsky.social 2018 article in Ériu (www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...).
We made rather short shrift of Thurneysen’s non-committal idea that the double superlative suffix -imem has anything to do with dialectal variation. See for all this Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh’s @pomuirch.bsky.social 2018 article in Ériu (www.jstor.org/stable/10.33...).
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The Uses of Romanticism @ucc.ie
Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane
Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yen
Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane
Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yen
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January 21, 2026 at 10:52 AM
The Uses of Romanticism @ucc.ie
Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane
Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yen
Reading 18 Feb by Maureen McLane
Papers 19 Feb by Mary-Ann Constantine, Elisa Cozzi, Porscha Fermanis @penfielding.bsky.social Nigel Leask, Omar Miranda, Jane Moore @drtinamorin.bsky.social Tríona Ní Shíocháin, Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, Diego Saglia & Brandon Yen
Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done!
#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge
Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture
tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd
#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge
Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture
tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd
January 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Despite its shortcomings (mostly related to me not being an art historian), this was one of the most enjoyable pieces of academic writing I’ve ever done!
#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge
Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture
tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd
#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge
Classicizing the Gaelic: Visual Classicism, Migration and Irish Manuscript Culture
tinyurl.com/5n7wwccd
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The volume Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity is now out! Available, open access, from the following link, the volume covers such topics as the early medieval Irish migrant scholars to Joyce’s Ulysses. With a foreword by Mary McAleese. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity
Ireland has an estimated diaspora of approximately 70 million people, ten times the actual population of the island, with a history of migration dating back to the medieval period. Why should we consi...
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January 20, 2026 at 7:43 AM
The volume Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity is now out! Available, open access, from the following link, the volume covers such topics as the early medieval Irish migrant scholars to Joyce’s Ulysses. With a foreword by Mary McAleese. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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An eighth child has frozen to death in Gaza in just one month as Israel continues blocking tents and winter shelter aid.
Not by air strikes, but by cold, rain, and deliberate deprivation.
Not by air strikes, but by cold, rain, and deliberate deprivation.
January 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
An eighth child has frozen to death in Gaza in just one month as Israel continues blocking tents and winter shelter aid.
Not by air strikes, but by cold, rain, and deliberate deprivation.
Not by air strikes, but by cold, rain, and deliberate deprivation.
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Justine McCarthy spot-on on proposals for reform of IP family reunification:
“To keep parents apart from their children for three additional years for no better reason than that you can is exactly what the Minister says it is not.
It is simply cruel.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
“To keep parents apart from their children for three additional years for no better reason than that you can is exactly what the Minister says it is not.
It is simply cruel.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Justine McCarthy: Ireland celebrates Hamnet and Jessie Buckley’s success. It should feel shame
Separating refugee parents and their children betrays the family values of the film and of our constitution
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January 17, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Justine McCarthy spot-on on proposals for reform of IP family reunification:
“To keep parents apart from their children for three additional years for no better reason than that you can is exactly what the Minister says it is not.
It is simply cruel.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
“To keep parents apart from their children for three additional years for no better reason than that you can is exactly what the Minister says it is not.
It is simply cruel.”
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Sunday Miscellany: A Bird's Eye View, by Olivia O'Leary www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
Sunday Miscellany: A Bird's Eye View, by Olivia O'Leary
A journalist recalls a time when representing RTÉ in the north of Ireland meant regular brushes with danger
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January 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Sunday Miscellany: A Bird's Eye View, by Olivia O'Leary www.rte.ie/culture/2026...
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"People guessed around 43.8% of people born outside of Ireland were availing of social housing compared to the real figure of 6.1%."
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Many people think immigration happening on larger scale than is really the case
The report by the ESRI found that many people overestimated the proportion of people in Ireland who were born in another country.
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January 15, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"People guessed around 43.8% of people born outside of Ireland were availing of social housing compared to the real figure of 6.1%."
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www.thejournal.ie/immigration-...
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Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive
According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.
www.heraldscotland.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...
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Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
January 13, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me
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In a mediascape that sometimes seems to be largely populated by vegetables, Richard Chambers keeps proving himself to be an exceptional journalist.
January 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
In a mediascape that sometimes seems to be largely populated by vegetables, Richard Chambers keeps proving himself to be an exceptional journalist.
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In Writing Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie brings to light the long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa.
Available January 20 (17 Mar UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #ReadUP
Available January 20 (17 Mar UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #ReadUP
January 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
In Writing Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie brings to light the long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West Africa.
Available January 20 (17 Mar UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #ReadUP
Available January 20 (17 Mar UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#History #ReadUP
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Tá ComharTaighde 11, an t-eagrán is mó go dtí seo, anois beo, a chlann. Ailt agus léirmheasanna scolártha ar chuile réimse de Léann leathan na Nua-Ghaeilge #Litríocht #Teanga #Lámhscríbhinní #Oideachas #Gàidhlig #DántaGrádha #Foilsitheoireacht #Filíocht #Stair: comhartaighde.ie
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Eagrán 11 2025 AILT TAIGHDE LÉIRMHEASANNA Féach eagráin eile » San eagrán seo Ailt TaighdeLéirmheasanna NUACHT Cartlann scéalta nuachta » Date of publication9 December 2025 ISSN2009-8626 Scaip an suío...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Tá ComharTaighde 11, an t-eagrán is mó go dtí seo, anois beo, a chlann. Ailt agus léirmheasanna scolártha ar chuile réimse de Léann leathan na Nua-Ghaeilge #Litríocht #Teanga #Lámhscríbhinní #Oideachas #Gàidhlig #DántaGrádha #Foilsitheoireacht #Filíocht #Stair: comhartaighde.ie
My review of Niall Ó Ciosáin's (excellent) book, Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900, seems to have appeared between Christmas and the New Year in The Scottish Historical Review: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
January 2, 2026 at 2:04 PM
My review of Niall Ó Ciosáin's (excellent) book, Print and the Celtic Languages: Publishing and Reading in Irish, Welsh, Gaelic and Breton, 1700–1900, seems to have appeared between Christmas and the New Year in The Scottish Historical Review: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Míle moladh, glóir & altúghadh don Choimdhe uile chumhachtach trena mhōrghrāsa & go dtugaidh dīolghadh dhúinn ann ār gcoirthe, & nuadhbheatha san mbliadhain nua so. Amén. - Cín lae Chathal Uí Chonchúir Bhéal Átha na gCarr, cothrom an lae seo 1773.
January 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Míle moladh, glóir & altúghadh don Choimdhe uile chumhachtach trena mhōrghrāsa & go dtugaidh dīolghadh dhúinn ann ār gcoirthe, & nuadhbheatha san mbliadhain nua so. Amén. - Cín lae Chathal Uí Chonchúir Bhéal Átha na gCarr, cothrom an lae seo 1773.
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Plea to families to discuss organ donation as donors and transplant numbers fall
Plea to families to discuss organ donation as donors and transplant numbers fall
HSE says slump is not due to new opt-out register introduced this year
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December 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Plea to families to discuss organ donation as donors and transplant numbers fall