David Stifter 🍵📄🦊

I think I found the Old Irish original:

Tréide dia·tabarr forcraid aire cen choimsi: feis, gen, cáera tened.

@aidanosullivan.bsky.social

It's probably a universal triad. I couldn't find it in Fergus Kelly's recent edition of the Old Irish Triads (shop.dias.ie/product/the-...)

An upcoming event: "Stokesday - Problems of Celtic Lexicography (I)" at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University.

6 June
No fee, all welcome.

A guide to Medieval Gaelic's witty advice, sayings and guidance Medieval Gaelic writers provided advice and guidance on topics like wealth, love and drink in the form of witty dánfhocail

A guide to Medieval Gaelic's witty advice, sayings and guidance. Aidan Doyle & Ken Ó Donnchú @ucc.ie @corkup.bsky.social on the witty dánfhocail containing advice and guidance on topics like wealth, love and drink www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

This reminds me that I still have to finish writing mine... But with some relief I see the pamphlet doesn't have to be finished within one year. 😮‍💨

Congratulations!

A three column list of animals, fish and insects in English, Irish and Latin. Includes cockle, cow, cuttle, cricket.

From our unique Irish #Manuscripts Collection
"The Names in English, Irish, and Latin; of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles, or Insects, which are known and propagated in Ireland"

See it here:
www.isos.dias.ie/KINGS/KINGS_...

@dias-isos.bsky.social
#Gaeilge #SnaG26 #Irish #IrishLanguage #gael

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies building in Dublin, Ireland

Scoláireacht bliana le fáil i Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh
1 Year scholarship available in SCS
@dias.ie
Sonraí / Details:
www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...

This is fantastic, and there is no need to use "just" at the beginning!

Póstaer 'Logainmneacha na hÉireann: na focail choitianta'

Clúdach an Irish Times, 10.03.26

Tá sceitimíní orainn anseo in @fsg-dcu.bsky.social póstaer de logainmneacha na hÉireann a fheiceáil san @irishtimes.com inniu. Bíonn neart eile le feiceáil ar chuntas @logainm.bsky.social! #SnaG26 #Gaeilge

Still 2 weeks to apply for this position! It’s to provide cover for me while I work on a research project, so I have lots of teaching materials I'm happy to share & the department can offer some extra funding for attending conferences, etc. Come work with us in @ceilteachomn.bsky.social next year!

By the way, what degree did you do, just out of personal interest?

Sin go díreach é.

We heard yesterday that graduates of Arts degrees in @maynoothuniversity.ie have an employment rate of c. 95%.

Ghipí, a Stiofáin, comhghairdeas ó chroí leat!

Research Assistant / Post-Doc Researcher, Music - Maynooth, Ireland job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 408256 The Music Department at Maynooth University invites applications for a 12-month position as either a Research Assistant (Level 2) ...

The ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University, Ireland, is hiring (two positions - this is the second)! I'm also looking a new research assistant/postdoc to conduct image analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered within the project. See: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

The opening of Beowulf from the unique surviving manuscript of the Old English text, beginning with a large initial 'H'.

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.

You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:

searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

Folúntas/Vacancy: 1-year O'Donovan Scholarship, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies @scs-dias.bsky.social
Applicants will normally hold a doctoral degree prior to taking up the scholarship.
Deadline 30 April 2026.
www.dias.ie/2026/03/06/v...

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 E 25, Lebor na hUidre / The Book of the Dun Cow. This 12th century manuscript is best known for containing the oldest extant version of the Táin Bó Cuailgne, or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, a renowned Irish epic.

Níl, go bhfios dom. Bhí tuairim agamsa le déanaí nach *u̯impo- atá ann sa Ghaillis agus sa Bhreatnais, ach *gʷimpo- (tagann an toradh céanna as an bheirt acu sna dá theanga), ach níl an fhianaise láidir leis an tuairim seo.

A small grey pillar stone stands proudly from the leaf strewn ground of Inchagoill Island. It has a depiction of two crosses on the visible face, and the inscription LIE LUGUAEDON MACCI MENUEH in Insular half uncial script

The Luguaedon Stone • Inchagoill Island

This small stone pillar stands close to the early church of Teampall Phadraig.

It bears one of the earliest inscriptions of Irish in the Latin alphabet. It reads:

LIE LUGUAEDON MACCI MENUEH

THE STONE OF LUGUAEDON, SON OF MENUEH

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm 🏺

And, last but not least, a Cisalpine Celtic spindle-whorl from Parre, Bergamo (BG·15).
Reading: katua (probably a short name with Celtic *katu- "battle, war")
📷: Alessandro Morandi, © Sopraintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia

First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, frequently wore a brooch in the style of the Buckquoy spindle-whorl.
📷: Getty Images

And here's one for Celtiberian from Monreal de Ariza (ancient Arcobriga), K.7.1. It reads:
A: susatikalim
B: uta / as or as / uta
The meaning is unknown.

📷: J. Untermann, MLH IV, 658

A Gaulish spindle-whorl from Saint-Martin-du-Tertre, Sens (Yonne) (L-120). It says:
GENETTA IMI / DAGA VIMPI
This probably means "I am a good and pretty girl"
Source: Alex Mullen & Coline Ruiz Darasse, Gaulish. Language | Writing | Epigraphy (2018), p. 32.

"A spindle-whorl for a spindle-whorl", as the Old Testament says (vaguely remembered).
Here's one from Orkney for Women's Day, in Sc. Gaelic & ogham script (Buckquoy, S-ORK-005). It probably reads BENDDACTANIML "a blessing, soul of L".
🔗: ogham.celt.dias.ie/S-ORK-005
📷: @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social

In the class I substitute teach for everyday, I do a language of the day! Tomorrow’s is Cisalpine Gaulish! Using the talotalikoi cairn inscription! I ask them the question “if we only wrote down one type of thing, what would it be?”

Ogham i siopa dearthóiríocht Chill Chainnigh. Roinn @aonghusoha.bsky.social an pictiúr seo liom.

Ogam in the Kilkenny Design Shop. Aonghus Ó hAlmhain shared the image with me.

...all of this is only my personal opinion. Other people after me will have to make the decision if they want to go down that route. I just want to stress that there are good, practical and didactic reasons not to do it - it is not our laziness or general unwillingness!
@dhaydenceltic.bsky.social

...teachers we know that students learn as much from colleagues & peers as they learn from ourselves.
Regarding the teaching experience, I can assure you that teaching an online class is very weird & feels very unsatisfactory (I have practical experience from this very semester). In any case,...
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