Part-time instructor positions in Celtic Studies available at StFX University. See link: recruiting.ultipro.ca/GOV5000GOVE/...
Doborchú was also used as a personal name in Old Irish. Unfortunately, it no longer is.
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Mada uisce "water dog", this is the Modern Irish rendering or translation of Old Irish doborchú "water dog" (the ModIr. continuation of this word is also in use for the animal, i.e. dobharchú. It illustrates the change of the language over the past 1300 years.
I just realised how the official hymn of the UEFA morbidly links football with the religious (Händel's "Zadok the Priest", HWV 258) and the political (the coronation of the English king George II).
It would be more salutary if those three social areas were kept distinct from each other.
recruiting.ultipro.ca
it seems the only rationale for jumping on the genai bandwagon is the fabricated fomo (not actual benefit to research)
and this is not surprising tbh. the ai industry has poured millions into setting much of the ai "potential benefit” discourse
The epic of #Ulysses is about one day in the life of #LeopoldBloom and he spends the day wandering around the streets of Dublin. #JamesJoyce distils it into one day, because all of us are, in fact, trying to get through the epic of a single day. No more so than the #RoyalCanalOdyssey
Ink & Innovation - visit the @rialibrary.bsky.social exhibition showcasing some of the earliest printed books produced in Europe. Find out about ground-breaking developments in printing technology and the development of the profession in the 15th century: www.ria.ie/library/libr...
Celtic Studies at St FX University
The 13th annual Celtic Students Conference by @celticstudents.bsky.social starts this Thursday! It will be held in TCD and over Zoom, with live interpretation for Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic papers. The schedule and registration link can be found at linktr.ee/celticstuden...
There's a deep connection between the names we use, how we speak about places, and the colonial experience.
The perspective from Naoero: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
(Since my school days, Naoero/Nauru has been a special obsession of mine.)
