Professor, University of Glasgow; Research Fellow, University College Cork @disappearingtext.bsky.social. Celtic Studies, medieval Irish/Gaelic literature, C18th MclaganMSS &c. Pleasantly shocked by hills. Emigrant 🇮🇪🇪🇺, sometimes returned.
Geraldine Parsons
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Tá, gan dabht!
This is very much a real thing; even if a bunch of media outlets reported it quite sloppily and some of the numbers ended up needlessly overstated.
If this was a normal industry it'd just be a fixable planning consideration. But tech is panic-building thousands so it's something bigger
University staff say €4.55bn research fund ignores arts and humanities. Almost 2,000 sign open letter criticising Research Ireland for favouring industry and commercial interests.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Ag súil go mór leis an gcomhdháil seo, in #Barbados an tseachtain seo chugainn, lá go leith ag caint ar Ghaeil na hAlban agus na hÉireann sna hIndiacha Thiar - idir stair agus litríocht. Ó ‘transport [na nÉireannach] go Jamaica’ sa 17ú C go dtí an file Gaeilge a raibh sclábhaithe aige sa 19ú C.
🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆
Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026.
Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!
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Colleagues in #CelticStudies might be interested in this excellent thesis by Dr Kris Swank on #Tolkien and #Irish - I was delighted to be 2nd supervisor, alongside the estimable @dimitrafimi.bsky.social. theses.gla.ac.uk/85231/1/2025...
Posts in Irish Mythology (≈ Early Irish Literature) and in Irish Folklore in UCC - one of which will be permanent, the other fixed term. Scaipigí an scéal le bhur dtoil:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD980/l...
Geraldine Parsons
Ketan Joshi
Donncha O’Connell
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh
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Apply for the Lecturers (Below the Bar) in Irish Mythology & Folklore role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
The PI of the Disappearing Text project, Prof. Kevin Murray, was recently elected to the Royal Irish Academy (pictured on the right below). Táimid an-bhródúil as!