Steffan Mac Giolla Íosa Gilbert
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Steffan Mac Giolla Íosa Gilbert
@smacgiollaiosa.bsky.social
BA Celtic Studies & CertHE Modern Languages student • Sodhek an yeth Kernewek @celticstudents.bsky.social‬ • Musician • Artist • Disabled trans Welsh person from a Cornish/Scottish/Irish family

EN/CY/GA/KW/SCO/DE/etc

https://smmg.dreamwidth.org
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My beautiful son Ernie. I made him for learning Kernowek and I've had a lot of fun trying out stop motion.

This is his website:
erniekernowek.straw.page
July 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Ragdres REVIVE ow tos dhe Gernow yn skon!
REVIVE project is coming to Cornwall soon!
July 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I think the next modern Celtic language I want to learn is Manx, and as for older languages I'd really like to get into Middle Welsh.
July 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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It's that time again:

If you have articles or books on the Irish diaspora which have or are coming out in 2025, please let me know so I can update the Irish Diaspora Histories bibliography!

irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com/recent-schol...
Recent Scholarship, 2025-2015
We are constantly adding to this list of recent scholarship. Please get in touch if you have a book or article coming out – we would love to note it here or highlight it through a short blog …
irishdiasporahistory.wordpress.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I have a bilingual (so, suitable for learners and non-speakers too) poetry book published with @kowethas.bsky.social! Gwedrow-Mires (Mirrors) is now available, only £9.99:
cornish-language.org/product/gwed...

All the money goes to supporting Kowethas an Yeth's fab work. #Kernewek #Cornish #poetry
March 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Don't forget to register for our upcoming #Celticstudentsconference2025 !
Register now from this link: linktr.ee/celticstudents
June 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Keith says if you want to live in the UK—not England, the UK—you should have to speak English.

Why English? Why not Welsh? Or BSL? Or Scots? Or Irish or Cornish or Scottish Gaelic or ISL or NISL or Shelta or Angloromani or...?

Fuck English chauvinism.
May 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Unrhyw un yma yn mynd i'r Gynhadledd Myfyrwyr Astudiaethau Celtaidd y mis nesa? Anyone here going to the Celtic Students Conference next month? :)
May 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Oes grŵp cerddoriaeth werin yn fy ardal, tybed... Hoffwn i reswm i ganu fy ffliwt yn fwy aml, sai wedi canu'r ffliwt mewn band ers talwm achos bod well 'da pobl i fi ganu basŵn neu fiola yn ei lle pan fo nhw'n darganfod mod i'n gallu canu nhw.
March 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Yth esov vy ow mires a-rag dhe vos dhe'n Bennseythen Gernewek yn Truru a-vorow!

Dw i'n edrych ymlaen at fynd i'r Penwythnos Cernyweg yn Truro yfory!

I'm looking forward to going to the Cornish Language Weekend in Truro tomorrow!

#Kernewek #Cernyweg #Cornish
Pennseythen Gernewek - Kowethas an yeth Kernewek
Pennseythen Gernewek Pennseythen rag dyski ha kewsel an yeth Kernewek Rag lies kernewegor, an ughpoynt yn mysk hwarvosow an yeth restrys dres an vledhen yw an Bennseythen Gernewek hag yw synsys y’n Gw...
cornish-language.org
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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It's always going to be "there's no record of anyone being called, or calling themselves, a Celt in Britain and Ireland until the modern era"
What’s something that’s a banal observation in your field, but which really blows students’ minds the 1st time they encounter it?

I’ll go 1st—when we talk about how technological history gets narrated & I say "no human being has ever lived in a historical period—they’ve only lived in the present"
March 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Yayyy, fi wedi cofrestru i neud cwrs Cernyweg ar-lein ym mis Mai!!!! #langsky
March 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Ro'n i'n teimlo'n gyffrous wrth i fi feddwl am Almaeneg y bore 'ma, ro'n i'n teimlo'n gyffrous wrth i fi edrych ar y cwrs Sgoteg OU y p'nawn 'ma, ac ro'n i'n teimlo'n gyffrous wrth i fi neud Tsieinëeg y noswaith 'ma ac yn meddwl am neud yr arholiad HSK1. Fi'n caru ieithoedd yn fawr iawn <3 #langsky
March 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Sad it's my last Chinese class of this course, because I really feel like I made a breakthrough in terms of speaking just in this last lesson. But hopefully next week I'll start on working toward my HSK1 exam so I'm looking forward to that!! #langsky #modernlanguages #chinese #hsk1
March 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Fi'n mynd i drial cofrestru am y CertHE mewn ieithoedd modern Ma'r credydau fy nosbarthiadau Tsieinëeg gallu bod yn rhan o'r dystysgrif, a fi moyn neud Almaeneg fel rhan o'r dystysgrif hefyd.
March 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Learning to make reeds. Some of these work better than others.... #music #oboe #bassoon #doublereeds
February 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
My a vynn skrifya yn Gernewek pub seythen. Ny wrav vy devnydhya ow Hernewek yn fenowgh, mes my a vynn praktisya. Bedhav vy gul klass Kernewek warlinen yn mis Metheven, govenek a'm beus. Bys yn mis Metheven, yth esov vy owth assaya gwellha war ow honan.
February 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Seo iad mo phleananna le haighaidh foghlaim teangacha an bhliain seo agus an bhliain seo chugainn. #langksy

2025

An bhliain seo, thosaigh mé Sean-Ghaeilge i mí Eanáir, agus déanfaidh mé í an téarma seo (críochnóidh an téarma i mí Bealtaine).
February 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Darganfyddiad gwych mewn siop elusen. Arwydd ddylen i ddysgu Almaeneg, mae'n amlwg... (Ac mae wastad yn neis gweld geiriaduron dwyieithog heb Saesneg)
#langsky #booksky
February 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 y cadno/y llwynog
Gaeilge 🇮🇪 an sionnach/an madra rua
Kernewek 〓〓 an lowarn
How to say the fox 🦊 in different languages:

English 🇺🇸 the fox
Dutch 🇳🇱 de vos
Spanish 🇪🇸 el zorro / la zorra
French 🇫🇷 le renard
German 🇩🇪 der Fuchs

#bluesky#langsky#langtwt#polyglotsky#wotd
February 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Culture Vannin announces return of Manx Summer School in July
Culture Vannin announces return of Manx Summer School in July
The courses will take place between July 21-25
www.iomtoday.co.im
February 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Dyma fy "wishlist" ieithoedd! Dyma'r ieithoedd i gyd hoffwn i ddysgu (* = ieithoedd fi'n dysgu/gwybod yn barod).
- Cymraeg *
- Gwyddeleg *
- Cernyweg *
- Scoteg (* tipyn)
- Tsieinëeg *
- Almaeneg
- Jèrriais
- Finneg
- Slofaceg
- Wcreineg
(- Islandeg, falle...)
February 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ma'n debyg 'sdim giriadur Cymraeg-Tsieinëeg ar hyn o bryd, felly falle bydd hynny'n brosiect i fi yn y dyfodol?? 👀 #cymraeg #tsieinëeg #中文 #威尔士语
February 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Fi'n meddwl mod i angen dechre dysgu rhai o raddfeydd ar y cornet am rwbryd mewn gwirionedd... #cerddoriaeth #music #cornet
February 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM