Táim den tuairim go bhfuil na hÉireannaigh sách suaimhneach faoi na rudaí sin chomh maith.

Sin é.

Rugadh i gcathair Ungárach an-ghar dom cheantar dúchasach é. Savaria ab ea an t-ainm ársa uirthi, Szombathely "cathair an Shabbait" as Ungáiris inniu, Steinamanger "cloch ar an bhfaiche" go tráidisiúnta as Gearmáinis. Baile dúchais d'athair Leopold Bloom in Ulysses.

Well, I always say, the spiciness of the spindle whorl translations usually says more about the modern translator than about the ancient Gauls...

Dála an scéil, patrún mo thíre feidearálaí dúchasaí is ea é Naomh Máirtín. Lá saor ar scoil atá ann.
Ithimid géanna ina chuimhne.

"Ich geh mit meiner Laterne" - sea, sin go díreach é.

Rinne muid Laternenumzug freisin nuair a bhí mé i m'aois réamhscolach, thart faoi am na bliana seo. Ach ní raibh sé ceangailte le Naomh Máirtín.

Tá. Níl naoimh againne.

Go hiomlán frith-Liútarach an nós sin.

"Kate" and its relatives aren't that rare either...

Na Solláin?

Is iasacht ó Laidin "cancer" an bheirt acu faoi dheireadh.

There's this observation/ theory that 🔵 is typically a late-comer in the colour systems of the languages of the world. Does this word originally mean "blue", or is it rather the word for the mineral transferred to the colour?

Ah, hm... actually, I copy-pasted the title from the official programme: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

The fourth speaker from Early Irish Maynooth was Tiago De Oliveira Veloso Silva (supervisors @niamhwycherley.bsky.social @thecelticist.bsky.social) with the historical talk "Giving while taking: the freedom of Clonard and aggressive patronage", funded by a @researchireland.ie Pathway Grant.
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Olly Dorgan-Hughes @grainneoga.bsky.social wrote an MA about "Dúan in chethrachat cest: a Middle Irish poem of questions" under my supervision last academic year; her conferal was last week.
She will present an extended version of her talk next week at the Tionól of @scs-dias.bsky.social.
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This morning, my own PhD student Paul Le Meur-Bouthemy presented "Preliminary methodological problems in assessing diatopic variations in Old Irish" as part of my DiⒶgnostic project, funded by a @researchireland.ie Advanced Laureate Award.
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