Amáireach!

So delighted to see that this is finally live - it was a joy and an honour to work on this super important project with such an amazing team of researchers!

Ó BEAGLAOICH, Séamus (1949–2023) An Bunachar Náisiúnta Beathaisnéisí Gaeilge. The National Database of Irish-Language Biographies.

Beathaisnéis Shéamuis Uí Bheaglaoich:
www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=...

Hope to catch up again soon, Claire!

Excellent news! Congratulations, @drclairenolan.bsky.social and team!

My essay on Am Muileann Dubh and North Atlantic supernatural music legends is out in the Shaw festschrift. It starts with a field recording from PEI in 1987 and ends with a devil in a Cape Breton mill in 2007. “port cho math ’s a chaidh a dheanamh riamh” 🎻😈
doi.org/10.2218/rzpny992​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I’d like to buy a vowel… mytheme should do the trick…

Comhghairdeas le John Shaw, ar cuireadh an iris seo le chéile inómós dó, leis na heagarthóirí, Virginia Blankenhorn, Rob Dunbar, agus Tiber Falzett. Meal a nàidheachd air na sgrìobadairean eile cuideachd.

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An early 19th-century book, laid open. On the blank left-hand page is a pencil sketch of a man in profile. The man is looking to the left; he is clean-shaven, with short, sparse hair, and he wears a high-collared jacket with what looks like a bulky plaid wrapped over his shoulders. The words "D McIntyre" are written in pencil underneath.

Portraid Dhonnchaidh Bhàin?
Donnchadh Sneddon, SCOTTISH STUDIES 42/1, 2026

A copy of the poems of Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (1724–1812) held by @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social has what might be the only extant portrait of the bard himself
#C18
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Cho toilichte seo fhaicinn an clò! Latest issue of Scottish Studies honours my PhD supervisor Dr John Shaw’s remarkable contributions to documenting tobar an dualchais (the spring of tradition) from which intergenerational knowledge in Gaelic on both sides of the Atlantic continues to flow…

An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine An scéal neamhghnách faoin tslí ar tharla sleachta Gaeilge a bheith scríofa ar chnámha beithígh

An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine

www.irishtimes.com/gaeilge/tuar...

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

i mo chleamaire faoi dheireadh! great day @nmireland.bsky.social with our #ethnology students, hosted by my former student Tiernan Gaffney, Asst. Keeper Folklife. Met Pádraig Ó Ruairc, tried on a strawboy costume he made, and watched him donate it to the collection! #folklore #mumming #BuachaillíTuí

Maidin inniu | Madainn an diugh | this morning… talking about displacement and loss through entangled ontologies of human and more-than-human being and endangerment in the North Atlantic #dúthchas #oireas #seanchas

Razia "Akory" (Official Video) - What Now? YouTube video by RAZIA

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Walking with lemurs… lemur.duke.edu/protect/sava...

Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles How the UFO myth, in the form of reports of flying saucers, first arrived in the British Isles and became embedded in existing legends

Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson on ‘Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles’. Tuesday 1 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-sau...

Folklore and the Senses The Folklore Society's annual conference, in collaboration with the Dept of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork

We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...

Chonaic mé an rón glas seo ar a Life in aice le Droichead Grattan tráthnóna inné… spotted this grey seal on the Liffey up past the Grattan Bridge yesterday afternoon! 🦭

Geabhróg ag iascaireacht ag béal na Dothra i gCeantar na nDugaí… a tern fishing at the mouth of the Dodder in Dublin’s Docklands…

Gaelic singer Mairi MacMillan, from South Uist, sent me this gorgeous song about the skylark, the uiseag, as a symbol of hope 🤍🎶 mairimacmillan.bandcamp.com/track/uiseag...

Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...

Aiseag | Return On the active hope of parenthood, of wrens and skylarks

My latest post on Substack; an attempt to make sense of what it means to be a parent in a world convulsing with crisis 💔

Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope.

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A white man with beard and caps standing in front of a big screen.

Opening keynote of #nefk2025, Antti Lindfors on science and nsture imitation in contemporary self-care

Làrach-lìn ùr le stòras luachmhor de sheann sgeulachdan Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla.

Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr, taobh a-muigh fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla. […]
Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.

Decoding Hidden Heritages Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland

Delighted to announce our new website www.hiddenheritages.ai/en. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. It really is a treasure trove of stories in Gàidhlig, Irish and English. Enjoy! @fsg-dcu.bsky.social @gaois.bsky.social

Canny Craw | An Fheannag Fhoghlaimte | Collegiate Crow #OilthighObarDheathain #UniversityOfAberdeen #SIEF2025

First North Atlantic record of Streaked Shearwater Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future. The bird was seen from the Cape May to Lewes ferry in New Jersey waters off the US east coast on 11 May. On the back of recent records...

Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future:

Tús maith le mí an Mheithimh ag bualadh leis na lachíní seo i bPáirc Hoirbeaird | a nice start to June meeting these ducklings in Herbert Park | Deagh thoiseach dhan Òg-mhìos a’ coinneachadh leis na lachagan seo ann am Pàirc Hoirbeaird

In recognition of his tireless advocacy for folklore and understanding the human experience, pioneering ethnologist Professor Henry Glassie received an honorary degree from @ucddublin.bsky.social last week 🎻🎶

Read more about the ceremony & celebration
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