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Spéisiuil.
August 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Truly
May 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The journal editors also seem to be unaware (or don't care) how Irish surnames are normally written, or of the use of diacritics in Irish:

"There is consensus that attempts to revitalise Irish via education systems show poor results (Ceallaigh and Dhonnabhain Citation2015)" (3/3)
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"Irish politics are marked by the issue of reunification, in turn strongly related to attitudes towards the Irish language, i.e. the more pro-Irish language a person is, the more likely they are to be pro-unification (Darmody and Daly Citation2015)" (2/3)
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Surprise surprise!
May 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Reposted by Aengus Ó Fionnagáin
And finally, before our afternoon excursions, Peter McNiven shares 'Place-Names of the Stirling area and Mentieth'. Carseland (flatland), Dumyat hill, Doune (dun), Dunblane (dol or dail, not dun, water-meadow). Cumbric, Gaelic, Scots boundary with Pictish, Gaelic, Scots en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumyat
Dumyat - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM