Tiber F.M. Falzett
@ampiobaire.bsky.social
Asst Prof in #Folklore | #Béaloideas @ UCD (e/sé/he). Asst Ed Folk Life. #Gàidhlig agam. #Bagpiping. #Birding. Ethnographies of communication, the more-than-human, natureculture, endangered languages. 🍁-ach thar lear ag baile san Oileán Epekwitk 🌊
Walking with lemurs… lemur.duke.edu/protect/sava...
June 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Walking with lemurs… lemur.duke.edu/protect/sava...
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Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson on ‘Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles’. Tuesday 1 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-sau...
Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles
How the UFO myth, in the form of reports of flying saucers, first arrived in the British Isles and became embedded in existing legends
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June 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson on ‘Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles’. Tuesday 1 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-sau...
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We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...
Folklore and the Senses
The Folklore Society's annual conference, in collaboration with the Dept of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork
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June 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...
Chonaic mé an rón glas seo ar a Life in aice le Droichead Grattan tráthnóna inné… spotted this grey seal on the Liffey up past the Grattan Bridge yesterday afternoon! 🦭
June 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Chonaic mé an rón glas seo ar a Life in aice le Droichead Grattan tráthnóna inné… spotted this grey seal on the Liffey up past the Grattan Bridge yesterday afternoon! 🦭
Geabhróg ag iascaireacht ag béal na Dothra i gCeantar na nDugaí… a tern fishing at the mouth of the Dodder in Dublin’s Docklands…
June 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Geabhróg ag iascaireacht ag béal na Dothra i gCeantar na nDugaí… a tern fishing at the mouth of the Dodder in Dublin’s Docklands…
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Gaelic singer Mairi MacMillan, from South Uist, sent me this gorgeous song about the skylark, the uiseag, as a symbol of hope 🤍🎶 mairimacmillan.bandcamp.com/track/uiseag...
Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
June 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Gaelic singer Mairi MacMillan, from South Uist, sent me this gorgeous song about the skylark, the uiseag, as a symbol of hope 🤍🎶 mairimacmillan.bandcamp.com/track/uiseag...
Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
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My latest post on Substack; an attempt to make sense of what it means to be a parent in a world convulsing with crisis 💔
Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope.
open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope.
open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
Aiseag | Return
On the active hope of parenthood, of wrens and skylarks
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June 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
My latest post on Substack; an attempt to make sense of what it means to be a parent in a world convulsing with crisis 💔
Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope.
open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope.
open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr, taobh a-muigh fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla. […]
Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.
Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.
Làrach-lìn ùr le stòras luachmhor de sheann sgeulachdan
Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla.
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June 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr, taobh a-muigh fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla. […]
Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.
Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.
June 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Delighted to announce our new website www.hiddenheritages.ai/en. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. It really is a treasure trove of stories in Gàidhlig, Irish and English. Enjoy! @fsg-dcu.bsky.social @gaois.bsky.social
Decoding Hidden Heritages
Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland
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June 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Delighted to announce our new website www.hiddenheritages.ai/en. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. It really is a treasure trove of stories in Gàidhlig, Irish and English. Enjoy! @fsg-dcu.bsky.social @gaois.bsky.social
Canny Craw | An Fheannag Fhoghlaimte | Collegiate Crow #OilthighObarDheathain #UniversityOfAberdeen #SIEF2025
June 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Canny Craw | An Fheannag Fhoghlaimte | Collegiate Crow #OilthighObarDheathain #UniversityOfAberdeen #SIEF2025
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Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future:
First North Atlantic record of Streaked Shearwater
Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future. The bird was seen from the Cape May to Lewes ferry in New Jersey waters off the US east coast on 11 May. On the back of recent records...
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June 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future:
Tús maith le mí an Mheithimh ag bualadh leis na lachíní seo i bPáirc Hoirbeaird | a nice start to June meeting these ducklings in Herbert Park | Deagh thoiseach dhan Òg-mhìos a’ coinneachadh leis na lachagan seo ann am Pàirc Hoirbeaird
June 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Tús maith le mí an Mheithimh ag bualadh leis na lachíní seo i bPáirc Hoirbeaird | a nice start to June meeting these ducklings in Herbert Park | Deagh thoiseach dhan Òg-mhìos a’ coinneachadh leis na lachagan seo ann am Pàirc Hoirbeaird
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In recognition of his tireless advocacy for folklore and understanding the human experience, pioneering ethnologist Professor Henry Glassie received an honorary degree from @ucddublin.bsky.social last week 🎻🎶
Read more about the ceremony & celebration
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Read more about the ceremony & celebration
www.ucd.ie/artshumaniti...
May 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In recognition of his tireless advocacy for folklore and understanding the human experience, pioneering ethnologist Professor Henry Glassie received an honorary degree from @ucddublin.bsky.social last week 🎻🎶
Read more about the ceremony & celebration
www.ucd.ie/artshumaniti...
Read more about the ceremony & celebration
www.ucd.ie/artshumaniti...
#Wrensday morning commute started with salutations from my neighbour Troglodytes troglodytes - #dreathandonn #dreóilín #thekingofallbirds 🪶
May 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
#Wrensday morning commute started with salutations from my neighbour Troglodytes troglodytes - #dreathandonn #dreóilín #thekingofallbirds 🪶
Gur h-iomadh caochladh tighinn air an t-saoghal / 'S ro-bheag a shaoil mi nuair bha mi thall… An car a fhuair mi cha b'ann gum bhuannachd / Tighinn thar a' chuain air a' chuairt bha meallt’ -Am Bàrd Mac’illEathain #AChoilleGhruamach #TheGloomyForest #ÒrainGhàidhlig #Displacement #Migration #cianalas
May 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Gur h-iomadh caochladh tighinn air an t-saoghal / 'S ro-bheag a shaoil mi nuair bha mi thall… An car a fhuair mi cha b'ann gum bhuannachd / Tighinn thar a' chuain air a' chuairt bha meallt’ -Am Bàrd Mac’illEathain #AChoilleGhruamach #TheGloomyForest #ÒrainGhàidhlig #Displacement #Migration #cianalas
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Wings like whispers, eyes like fire.
Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography
Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography
May 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wings like whispers, eyes like fire.
Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography
Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way” - #DrMLKJr … ged ’s beag tha ’n drannd-eun, ’s mòr tha cumhachd a chridhe… although the hummingbird is small, its heart’s force is mighty…
May 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way” - #DrMLKJr … ged ’s beag tha ’n drannd-eun, ’s mòr tha cumhachd a chridhe… although the hummingbird is small, its heart’s force is mighty…
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New research into the fossil record of Macaronesia has uncovered a formerly rich diversity of gadfly petrel species that have mostly disappeared from the North Atlantic:
Extinct gadfly petrel described from the Azores
New research into the fossil record of Macaronesia has uncovered a formerly rich diversity of gadfly petrel species (genus Pterodroma) that have mostly disappeared from the North Atlantic. The findings show that these currently rare seabirds once occupied a much wider range and included several spec...
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May 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
New research into the fossil record of Macaronesia has uncovered a formerly rich diversity of gadfly petrel species that have mostly disappeared from the North Atlantic:
“What? What? Where? Where? See it! See it!” 🪶 🎶 #Birdsong #Mimesis #IndigoBunting #MoodIndigo #Birding
May 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“What? What? Where? Where? See it! See it!” 🪶 🎶 #Birdsong #Mimesis #IndigoBunting #MoodIndigo #Birding
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Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.
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ANSOC's Kate Kanne, with @helenebenkert.bsky.social & Camille M.L. Vo Van Qui are very pleased & proud to announce that our edited volume "Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History" from the amazing @sidestone.bsky.social is officially published open access!
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇
Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History @ Sidestone Press
The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical rol...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
ANSOC's Kate Kanne, with @helenebenkert.bsky.social & Camille M.L. Vo Van Qui are very pleased & proud to announce that our edited volume "Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History" from the amazing @sidestone.bsky.social is officially published open access!
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇
Les vautours et les pigeons… De acciptribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant… war and peace…
May 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Les vautours et les pigeons… De acciptribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant… war and peace…
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May 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM