Genuinely shocked to read about proposals at Galway (an amazing university with world-class humanities departments) to axe the broad-based arts degree. Really grim reading. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Looking forward to a fantastic range of talks at the upcoming Classics Research Symposium! @campsgalway.bsky.social @unigalwayschoolllc.bsky.social
Cover of Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP), Volume 124, Number 2 Brown, red, and white background with medieval illustration of a man and an intricate floral border on the left, featuring the Table of Contents.
In Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124.2, @nicolai1505.bsky.social discusses the contentious date of the merger of etymological /r/ and palatal r from */z/ in Old West Norse. Read now on @projectmuse.bsky.social cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Cover of Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP), Volume 124, Number 3 Brown, red, and white background with medieval illustration of a man and an intricate floral border on the left, featuring the Table of Contents.
In Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124.3, @nicolai1505.bsky.social argues that the commonly held view that Irish /ṽ/ uniquely yielded ON [v] is groundless because it builds on a faulty analysis of the evidence. @projectmuse.bsky.social @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on our project, which will produce editions of the earliest version of Acallam na Senórach 'The Colloquy of the Ancients', the central Finn Cycle text from medieval Ireland. New software will also be developed to help in this work. 1/2
Breaking news: The new, revised, updated Ogham in 3D website is now live:
ogham.celt.dias.ie
Choose "inscriptions" in the menu.
Live broadcast
Three more days until the launch of the revised Ogham in 3D database.
www.tickettailor.com/events/mayno...
We are very proud of a strong presence of Galway employees and alumni at the Fourth European Symposium in Celtic Studies, which was a fantastic event and marvellously organised by @elenaparina.bsky.social and her great team in Bonn on behalf of the Societas Celtologica Europaea:
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Half of the #GlossIT team en route to Bonn for the
"FOURTH EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM IN CELTIC STUDIES". We will present tomorrow afternoon.
www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/keltologie/e...
#ESCS25
Well done!
A screenshot of the petition site where the number of signatures has reached 3706. It shows the logo of Utrecht University over a Celtic Torque, that is held at the Rijksmuseum of Oudheiden, Leiden
It is incredible and wonderful to see the support for our petition - 3700 signatures since Tuesday! I hope this petition may be symbolic as well for the other smaller languages in NL that are currently under threat. 1/2
www.change.org/p/red-de-opl...