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Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh
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Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | #siaradcymraeg
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A reminder that this year's Canna Lecture will take place on tomorrow evening (Friday) in Edinburgh! Bidh an Dr Màrtainn MacGriogair a-mach air bàrdachd agus eachdraidh nan Gàidheal anns an 19mh linn.

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Canna Lecture | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture
Join The Gaelic Texts Society and Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh for their annual Canna Lecture by Dr Martin Macgregor (University of Glasgow), entitled ‘“Ach thèid an cran...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
pomuirch.bsky.social
#Edinburgh colleagues, remember to contact your MSPs and MP to make them aware of the vandalism senior management are threatening at UoE through compulsory redundancies! #UKHE
ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 2d
Don't cross the picket line!

We are on strike because of UoE's budget cuts that have and will affect students and staff.

We are striking for a better university, join us!

#StopTheCuts
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac. Written in Irish by Murchadh Riabach Ó Cuindlis, at Cluain Lethan and Lothra (Lorrha) in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary, it is the largest Irish vellum manuscript by one scribe.
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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UN peacekeepers shot at by IDF in Lebanon, says UNIFIL
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has said that Israeli soldiers shot at its peacekeepers this morning from a tank near an army position in the country's south.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday:

Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city.

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Lobby Your MSP! — UCU Edinburgh
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November 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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irishtextssociety.bsky.social
Join us online for this year’s Breandán Ó Buachalla Lecture, organised with the support of @nlireland.bsky.social. The lecture, “The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry” will be given by Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh. Registration now open
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Binn gotha na dtéad
The harp and the harper in Classical Irish Poetry
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November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!

UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March

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Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
pomuirch.bsky.social
Ní fiú cac an diabhail RTÉ, seriously.
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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For the evening that’s in it… To paraphrase Othello (and CJH), Michael D has done the state some service, we know it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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bryonycoombs.bsky.social
This afternoon I ran an embodied manuscripts workshop at Edinburgh CRC and we looked at some extraordinary manuscripts (just look at CRC MS 19👀👇), and I had the opportunity to spend time talking to some very interesting, engaged and enquiring students - honestly what could be better? Thank you LAMPS
November 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
pomuirch.bsky.social
Wonderful workshop today on the materiality of manuscripts with @bryonycoombs.bsky.social at Edinburgh University’s Centre for Research Collections.
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Laoch ar lár…
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Maireann an grá atá ag fonnadóirí Chonamara d'amhráin Raiftearaí. Ceithre a cinn a casadh aréir i gcomórtas Choirn Uí Riada: Eanach Dhúin, Neansaí Walsh, Brídín Bhéasaí & Caismirt an Phótaire leis an Uisce Beatha. Agus bhí an bua, den 3ú huair, ag Michael Frank Ó Conghaile, a chas péire díobh!
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
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November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature
Aberystwyth becomes Wales' first UNESCO City of Literature
Aberystwyth has joined a global network of 350 Creative Cities that have been recognised for their excellence in creative fields across the world by becoming Wales’ first UNESCO City of Literature Abe...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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“Ever since I was a boy in Raasay, and became aware of the difference between the history I read in books and the oral accounts I heard around me, I have been very sceptical of what might be called received history…”

—Somhairle MacGill-Eain / Sorley MacLean (1911–1996)
#Gaelic #history
Ever since I was a boy in Raasay, and became aware of the difference between the history I read in books and the oral accounts I heard around me, I have been very sceptical of what might be called received history. The million people, for instance, who died in Ireland in the nineteenth century, the million more who had to emigrate, the thousands of families forced from their homes in the Highlands and Islands. Why was all that? Famine, overpopulation, improvement, the industrial revolution, expansion overseas. You see, not many of these people understood such words, they knew only Gaelic. But we know now another set of words; clearance, empire, profit, exploitation. Our way of life is besieged by the forces of international big business, our country’s beggared by bad communication, the iniquities of land ownership, the failures and unconcern of central government. Our culture is vitiated by the sentimentality of those who have gone away. We have, I think, a deep sense of generation and community. But this has in so many ways been broken. We have a history of resistance, but now mainly in the songs we sing. Our children are bred for emigration.
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The #ScottishGaelic Texts Society Annual #CannaLecture will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 21 November 2025, delivered by Dr Martin Macgregor.

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Canna Lecture | Celtic & Scottish Studies | Literatures Languages and Culture
Join The Gaelic Texts Society and Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh for their annual Canna Lecture by Dr Martin Macgregor (University of Glasgow), entitled ‘“Ach thèid an cran...
llc.ed.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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ionaddhuneideann.bsky.social
Leabhar ùr do chloinn le Tawana Maramba, a chaidh tro fhoghlam tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig ann an Dùn Èideann agus a ghabhas pàirt anns an tachartas 'Blasad' againn air 29 Samhain aig an Leabharlann Nàiseanta
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Sgeul nan Afro-Ghàidheal ga innse an leabhar ùr do chloinn
'S e 'Anesu agus na Creutairean Uisge' a' chiad leabhar a sgrìobh Tawana Maramba agus tha e stèidhichte gu ìre air an na tha i fhèin air fiosrachadh.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Brian Friel's "Translations" in Dakar: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Donegal to Dakar: the Irish play about British rule hitting home in post-colonial Senegal
An African staging of Brian Friel’s Translations resonates deeply as the country distances itself from France
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October 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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For the multi-faceted Morrisiaid Môn, literature was one of many intellectual pursuits which ranged from the scientific to the artistic ✍️Jerry Hunter
Yr Hen Iaith part 73: Lewis Morris, his brothers and their literary circle
Jerry Hunter We sat down to record this episode of Yr Hen Iaith. Our producer, Richard Martin, gave us the word to begin and we started with the usual intro. When Richard Wyn Jones asked me what we’d…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Jaw-droppingly poor analysis from RTÉ Radio One right now. Seriously embarrassing.
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Turns out voting for Catherine Connolly is a rural pursuit.
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Gobaith o Gaerfilli!
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026

We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!

Please share!!
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM