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Learn short form poetry with the excellent Maeve or gift a course to a friend!
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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unioflimerick.bsky.social
In September 2025, UL officially launched the pilot of its first-ever Age Friendly University Teaching Programme, which opened the doors of UL’s lecture halls to 33 older adults who are retired or enjoying the 'third age' of life.

Read more: www.ul.ie/news/learnin...

#HumansOfUL #StayCurious
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December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
So many reasons to love living in London.

The Traveller community’s London Christmas drive – in pictures www.theguardian.com/world/galler...
The Traveller community’s London Christmas drive – in pictures
Photographer Jill Mead joined the Traveller community’s London Christmas drive on Saturday – a 14-mile trip by 200 or so horse-drawn carts and carriages through the capital, stopping at Buckingham Pal...
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December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
My little book is dedicated to my friends, and its eclectic tour takes off with two of them at the Heaney HomePlace, where the great Iarla Ó Lionáird will sing and talk with the great Neil Hegarty and myself about Heaney, Derry, and the music of what happens. Tickets are on sale Wednesday morning.
neilhegarty.bsky.social Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social · 1d
This is coming with springtime: a celebration of @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social Late Heaney at the Heaney HomePlace.

28 February.
December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The Traveller community’s London Christmas drive – in pictures
Photographer Jill Mead joined the Traveller community’s London Christmas drive on Saturday – a 14-mile trip by 200 or so horse-drawn carts and carriages through the capital, stopping at Buckingham Pal...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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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
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December 8, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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aonghusoha.bsky.social
Tá cáil air i measc na nGael do éacht lasmuigh den Acadamh, i. Iallach a chur ar an Roinn Dlí agus cirt an foirm iarratais ar shaoránacht a chur ar fáil as Gaeilge. Ní gan dua a rinne sé sin.

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December 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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#OldFoxAdventCalendar
The Seventh Window. St Ambrose's Day, the Honey-Tongued Doctor, Patron Saint of Bees and Beekeepers. At first light, making his way through the snow and pausing to admire the delicate rosen-gold of the dawn, Old Fox had gone to the orchards to check on the bees. They were wintering now, but a messenger bee emerged to talk to Old Fox, to hear his news and tell him theirs. With Old Fox's skill as beekeeper, they always survived the cold months, never losing even one fellow. Their winter stores were sumptuous and plentiful, and the hives were very comfortable and warm. How they loved their Old Fox! How happy they were to be bees in those quiet old orchards in that quiet old corner of Dorsetshire!
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Gangnam Style 1493.
A man, likely a hunter, with two dogs as part of an illuminated manuscript page. The man raises an arm, and this makes him look like a dancer. The detail is from the breviarum Augustanum 1493 made by Erhard Ratdolt.
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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beardedwalker.bsky.social
Sniffs at Bamburgh beach, Northumberland. There winter days are bringing some lovely colourful sunrises

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Morning sunrise at Bamburgh beach and dogs having a post swim sniff on the sand
December 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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I popped into Hodges Figgis after our tour today for a bit of Christmas shopping, and I saw they had a little recommendation on my Wild Atlantic Way book — was so chuffed! The temptation to tell everyone walking past 😅

Such a lovely surprise!
My guidebook for the Wild Atlantic Way with a nice recommendation from Hodges Figgis bookshop
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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If you give this a like we'll put you in a hat and one of ye will win a nice #TheLateNightWritersClub Book *and* a fairly tricky 1000 piece Jigsaw puzzle featuring the Reading Room at @nlireland.bsky.social and, of course, YeatsBinchyBeckettKavanaghWildeSwiftEdgeworthKeaneTynanO'CaseyBehanJoyce
December 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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fhayesmccoy.bsky.social
Lovely to appear in @patriciascanlan.bsky.social's Christmas list!
Please, if you're thinking of buying my novel, consider contributing to Ireland's Big Issue

#booksky #spéirgorm #festivefiction @gaiabanks.bsky.social
#OnceAYear #writingcommunity

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December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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ICYMI: The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has named Elif Shafak as its new president, taking over from Bernandine Evaristo 👇 #BookSky
Royal Society of Literature names Elif Shafak as new president
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December 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Some days nothing works better to soothe 21st century pains than music that’s a thousand years old. Haunting, strange, utterly remote - and yet because of that sounding at times hypermodern - the music from the 11th century manuscripts of the Winchester Troper is presented beautifully on this album👇
Alleluia (Versets: Pascha nostrum - Epulemur)
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December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Publishers to trial removing fees from some journals in UK deals.

Disappointing to see that it's "small scale". We (@openlibhums.org) have shown a model that works, fee-free, for a decade. But then we are not-for-profit...

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Publishers to trial removing fees from some journals in UK deals - Research Professional News
Agreements under negotiation will include open access pilots hailed as “fundamental shift in business model”
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December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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artscouncilireland.bsky.social
We're pleased to share a schedule of funding opportunities for 2026: https://artscouncil.ie/news/2026-funding-schedule/

We will work to maintain stability and continuity in our funding and sector supports in 2026 and prioritise our support of arts organisational infrastructure.

📷: Maurice Gunning
A photo of two dancers performing on a dimly lit stage, mirroring each other's movements
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Two new articles in Studia Celtica Fennica! In her philological study of a minor late medieval Irish glossary @chantalkobel.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social presents the first edition and translation of the Tindrum glossary in TCD MS H 3.18 (1337). Available here: journal.fi/scf/article/...
A neglected glossary in a sixteenth-century Irish legal miscellany
This article presents a study, edition and translation of an overlooked minor medieval Irish glossary. The Tindrum glossary’s brevity and obscure location in a sixteenth-century legal miscellany likel...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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chantalkobel.bsky.social
I'm delighted to see this new article out in the world, published in Studia Celtica Fennica - a philological study of a minor glossary preserved in a sixteenth-century legal miscellany.
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A minor glossary in a sixteenth-century Irish legal miscellany
This article presents a philological study of a hitherto unpublished minor late medieval Irish glossary. The text’s brevity and obscure location in a sixteenthcentury legal miscellany likely contribut...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Lovely to see my latest novel Once A Year appear in Anne Cunningham's Meath Chronicle column as

"A beautiful novel about imperfect families and the struggles we all face during winds of change"

And thanks to fellow-author Cauvery Madhavan, who alerted me to it!
December 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉
Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage:
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#MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology
We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉 Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage: 👉 https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/Vote-for-the-research-project-of-the-year #VoteNow #IrishHistory
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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You know what to do - vote @nmireland.bsky.social !
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We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉
Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage:
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#MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology
We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉 Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage: 👉 https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/Vote-for-the-research-project-of-the-year #VoteNow #IrishHistory
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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unioflimerick.bsky.social
Dr Gail Flanagan, from UL's School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, spoke to Tom Dunne on Newstalk about the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year, 'rage bait', and the new words that have entered the lexicon.

Listen back: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

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‘Rage bait’ named Oxford’s word of 2025 | Newstalk
‘Rage bait’ has been named the official Oxford word of 2025 after language experts noticed it...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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‘One of the most breathtaking cathedrals in the world’: readers’ favourite churches in Europe
Wonderful art, mysterious history, amazing design and beautiful locations have drawn our tipsters to these shrines from Norway to Bulgaria
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December 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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#OldFoxChristmasFilms Day Three: Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas’ “A Child's Christmas in Wales” (1961).

The full magnificent reading is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdE...
🦊📽️🎄Old Fox's Christmas Film Advent Calendar. In honour of Old Fox's great love of the cinema, each day during Advent, I'll be sharing one of twenty-four interesting and rewarding films to watch over the festive period. 🎄📽️🦊 Day Three: Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas’ “A Child's Christmas in Wales” (1961) Not strictly a film, but Christmas is not Christmas without Richard Burton reading "A Child's Christmas in Wales". This version, from 1961, I believe was recorded in New York. One cold winter, I stayed at Dylan's childhood house at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, which is preserved by some wonderful people as a living museum and cultural space. That night, it sleeted a little and there was fog from the sea, and when I tucked my small son into bed, everything was just as Dylan wrote - "Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steadily falling night. I turned the gas down, I got into bed. I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept."
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM