Fabula Celtica Podcast
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FINALLY have time to write definitely-late Xmas cards for mo teaghlach... and they get to work for it this year. Insular minuscule script, scribal abbreviations, and an illuminated d/🪿. Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir/Nollaigh chridheil agus bliadhna mhath ùr dhuibh uile! 🌟
December 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
FINALLY have time to write definitely-late Xmas cards for mo teaghlach... and they get to work for it this year. Insular minuscule script, scribal abbreviations, and an illuminated d/🪿. Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh go léir/Nollaigh chridheil agus bliadhna mhath ùr dhuibh uile! 🌟
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This!
Whenever I teach literature in translation, we always explore the extent to which the translation is itself a creative act. It is so frustrating to see people talk as if you can auto-generate anything remotely resembling a good literary translation. You can't.
Whenever I teach literature in translation, we always explore the extent to which the translation is itself a creative act. It is so frustrating to see people talk as if you can auto-generate anything remotely resembling a good literary translation. You can't.
As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work.
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December 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This!
Whenever I teach literature in translation, we always explore the extent to which the translation is itself a creative act. It is so frustrating to see people talk as if you can auto-generate anything remotely resembling a good literary translation. You can't.
Whenever I teach literature in translation, we always explore the extent to which the translation is itself a creative act. It is so frustrating to see people talk as if you can auto-generate anything remotely resembling a good literary translation. You can't.
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Dictionary of of ancient Celtic from insular sources:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dictionary of of ancient Celtic from insular sources:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Many congratulations, Simon and Sasha, and whoever else will be involved in this project!
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Welcome to MATER (Medievalists Against the Extreme Right), an offshoot of the @errnetwork.bsky.social at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. The network is run by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social. Get in touch for details of meetings and events.
December 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Welcome to MATER (Medievalists Against the Extreme Right), an offshoot of the @errnetwork.bsky.social at @uninorthampton.bsky.social. The network is run by @menysnoweballes.bsky.social. Get in touch for details of meetings and events.
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I am not going to deny that AI transcription and translation is improving fast, but as a speaker and researcher in a minority language I am not lookng forward to a bunch of anglophones clicking a button and telling me about my specialism with no ability to check the originals
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I am not going to deny that AI transcription and translation is improving fast, but as a speaker and researcher in a minority language I am not lookng forward to a bunch of anglophones clicking a button and telling me about my specialism with no ability to check the originals
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As far as nineteenth century horror-story-ending mortalities go, I think "musically induced to recall that you're descended from Selkies and challenging an angry seal to a fight to the death" is a hall-of-famer (Fiona Macleod, 'The Dan-Nan-Ron')
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
As far as nineteenth century horror-story-ending mortalities go, I think "musically induced to recall that you're descended from Selkies and challenging an angry seal to a fight to the death" is a hall-of-famer (Fiona Macleod, 'The Dan-Nan-Ron')
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Ag súil go mór leis an ócáid seo! The biggest Acallam na Senórach conference ever 🤩
🚨Save the date!🚨 Tionólfar comhdháil ar Acallam na Senórach ar an 21-22 Lúnasa 2026, i gColáiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. Clár ar ball. Beidh tuilleadh eolais le fáil ar www.ucc.ie/en/disappear... i gceann na haimsire.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Ag súil go mór leis an ócáid seo! The biggest Acallam na Senórach conference ever 🤩
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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The Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect today - but its significance will only become clear over time. It's a complex, incrementalist measure and much depends on how it's implemented. My analysis here
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The Scottish Languages Act 2025 comes into effect today - but its significance will only become clear over time. It's a complex, incrementalist measure and much depends on how it's implemented. My analysis here
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...
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Really happy to have this article out in print officially!! All Acallam enthusiasts will be interested in it, I hope 👀 This article brings important new things to light regarding the textual and manuscript transmission of Acallam / Agallamh texts..!
📚 Second Acallam publication alert this week! 🔔 Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou's latest article, "A Reassessment of the Manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a New Version of Acallam na Senórach", was just published in Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 72 (2025).
A reassessment of the manuscripts of the Reeves Agallamh na Seanórach and a new version of Acallam na Senórach
Résumé L’Agallamh na Seanórach de l’Évêque Reeves fut éditée par Ní Shéaghdha à partir du plus ancien manuscrit dans lequel ce texte se trouve, RIA MS 24 P 5 (dixseptième siècle). Cet article…
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Really happy to have this article out in print officially!! All Acallam enthusiasts will be interested in it, I hope 👀 This article brings important new things to light regarding the textual and manuscript transmission of Acallam / Agallamh texts..!
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Oh no, the weird author scammers have found me. They love my indie release apparently.
It is, indeed, a book with mass appeal
It is, indeed, a book with mass appeal
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Oh no, the weird author scammers have found me. They love my indie release apparently.
It is, indeed, a book with mass appeal
It is, indeed, a book with mass appeal
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obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
obsessed with the Roseisle pictish silly goose
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In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In academic writing it is vitally important to know when you have said enough to prove your argument. It is at this point that you must add every single other piece of evidence you have come across
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Foliseachán nua - New publication 2
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
shop.dias.ie/product/the-...
@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
shop.dias.ie/product/the-...
@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Foliseachán nua - New publication 2
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
shop.dias.ie/product/the-...
@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
shop.dias.ie/product/the-...
@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
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Druids, leeks, and a dissection of Welsh colonialism - what more could you want from MY BOOK I'M PROMOTING?
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Druids, leeks, and a dissection of Welsh colonialism - what more could you want from MY BOOK I'M PROMOTING?
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I love this poem,
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love this poem,
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You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
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#OTD 152 years ago, Osborn Bergin (1873–1950) was born 🎂 Bergin was an expert on (Old) Irish language and literature, a translator of early Irish texts, and a poet. He formulated the so-called Bergin’s Law pertaining to word order in Old Irish.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#OTD 152 years ago, Osborn Bergin (1873–1950) was born 🎂 Bergin was an expert on (Old) Irish language and literature, a translator of early Irish texts, and a poet. He formulated the so-called Bergin’s Law pertaining to word order in Old Irish.
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026
www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Gairm Phàipearan Co-Labhairt | Call For Conference Papers: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 14−16 July 2026
www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
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The latest volume of the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie is now available
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The latest volume of the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie is now available
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
Goes to show how widespread the impact of the Irish Literary Revival (c. 1890–1920) really was!
TIL that Theodore Roosevelt - while sitting president in 1907 - published an article on medieval Irish tales and called for the establishment of chairs in Celtic Studies in US universities.
(fun fact from Ian Stewart's excellent book The Celts: A Modern History)
(fun fact from Ian Stewart's excellent book The Celts: A Modern History)
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Goes to show how widespread the impact of the Irish Literary Revival (c. 1890–1920) really was!
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Well, we had a whole conference celebrating James Hogg!
Here is one of our 'every week' talks on the demonic in the Scottish Gothic
youtu.be/siB7TnR227Q
Here is one of our 'every week' talks on the demonic in the Scottish Gothic
youtu.be/siB7TnR227Q
Devil or Double: Decoding the Demonic in the Scottish Gothic
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Well, we had a whole conference celebrating James Hogg!
Here is one of our 'every week' talks on the demonic in the Scottish Gothic
youtu.be/siB7TnR227Q
Here is one of our 'every week' talks on the demonic in the Scottish Gothic
youtu.be/siB7TnR227Q