Athbhreithniú á dhéanamh ag Fondúireacht Nelson Mandela ar an úsáid a bhaineann Ollscoil na Gaillimhe as ainm Mandela Tá imní ar an Nelson Mandela Foundation faoin gceangal atá ag Ollscoil na Gaillimhe le Technion, ollscoil taighde agus teicneolaíochta in Iosrael a bhíonn ag obair le tionscal na n-arm

Athbhreithniú á dhéanamh ag Fondúireacht Nelson Mandela ar an úsáid a bhaineann Ollscoil na Gaillimhe as ainm Mandela

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Irish Studies Seminar - Enda Delaney, The Cognitive Revolution in Modern Ireland, 1850-1920

Our final Irish Studies seminar this semester will be on Monday 27 April at 4.30, when Enda Delaney will talk on 'The Cognitive Revolution in Modern Ireland, 1850-1920'. All welcome in-person or online. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Tagtha sa bpost inniu.

Is breá liom “Bean Uí Ghaoithín (Peig)” faoi mar a bheadh “Ms Ciccone (Madonna)” ann!

Our annual Noel O’Connell Memorial Lecture, jointly organised with the Irish Literary Society, will be given this year by Nollaig Ó Muraíle on 'James Hardiman and his manuscript collection in the British Library’ at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, on Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 7.30 p.m.

Ulster University to cut up to 450 jobs An Ulster University spokesperson said that

Horrendous!

How can this be anything other than the end of UU:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Go díreach!

No. = Number = Uimhir = Uimh.

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Omeros, inscribed by Walcott.

Reminder: If you’re going to buy books online, buy them from Oxfam.

An Béal Bocht.

The latest issue of Scottish Studies celebrates former editor John Shaw (also retired Senior Lecturer in Ethnology in the School of Scottish Studies at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social).

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On 4/16, we're celebrating Natasha Sumner's new work, Heroes of the Gael: A History of Fionn and the Fianna (Princeton Uni Press, 2026)

Joining Sumner for a discussion of Irish folklore are Geraldine Parsons (Uni of Glasgow), Ciara Ní Riain (Harvard), & Ray Cashman (Indiana Uni)

Scoláirí den scoth iad an bheirt sin, ach is léir nach bhfuil ballraíocht an RSE dáiríre faoi bheith istigh a bheith ag na Daonnachtaí.

As an 43 ball nua a toghadh i mbliana, beirt atá ag plé leis na Daonnachtaí, agus duine den bheirt sin ag plé leis na Daonnachtaí Digiteacha.

If this list demonstrates anything, it’s that the Arts and Humanities in Scotland are very, very poorly served by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

7 Apr 1637: Anthony Gernon #Irish #Franciscan ordained a priest in #Flanders #otd His Parrthas an Anma - paradise/garden of the soul -is a key devotional text as #Gaeilge, in #Irish printed by the friars on their press in #Leuven #Lobháin

Gabriel Rosenstock, duine de mhórscríbhneoirí na Gaeilge agus file ‘idirnáisiúnta’, ar shlí na fírinne Scríbhneoir agus aistritheoir bisiúil ildánach ab ea Gabriel Rosenstock, a bhí lárnach sa ghrúpa ceannródaíoch filí Innti, agus i bhforbairt seánraí éagsúla sa Ghaeilge

Gabriel Rosenstock, duine de mhórscríbhneoirí na Gaeilge agus file ‘idirnáisiúnta’, ar shlí na fírinne

Change Everything No 82: The neoliberal university model has failed. What next? Edinburgh Union Debate: 'This House Believes Universities Have Forgotten Their True Purpose'

I share my thoughts from a debate at the University of Edinburgh Union.

I didn’t catch the numbers of the vote, but yes, unsurprisingly my affirmative side won. Students get it

@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @scottishgreens.org
@younggreens.bsky.social
nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...

Uilliam Ó Loinsigh / William Linch, duine a bhain le Ciorcal Uí Neachtain ina dhiaidh sin. Tuilleadh anseo faoi, agus trácht ar an LS: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

#LámhscríbhinníGaeilge

A piece of collage from a late 17th century Irish manuscript. A manuscript made in Dublin but grafted with an image of the crucifixion (probably) from a Netherlandish printed book.

A Caravaggio painting from 1602 of Jesus being embraced by Judas as men in armour arrest him. On the right, a dark haired onlooker takes it all in. On the left, a panicking apostle runs away. All is suffused with unearthly light and beauty despite depicting the moment of disaster. Once overlooked, now one of the world’s treasures.

Any excuse to share this magnificent Caravaggio which you can see for free in Dublin. The events of Holy Thursday: betrayal, alarm, despair, resignation and the artist holding a lantern to show the scene to the world.

Nancy Fraser | After Habermas My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who...

A great reflection. Habermas--Structural Transformation in particular--hits different for pre-modernists (or for me, as a premodernist) and I found this a crisp piece on flaws that are evident when one reads without the specter of modernity in mind. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Comhghairdeas le @donnchalaw.bsky.social!

This 👇 Some of us also have a commitment to the production of scholarship in minoritized languages and without a serious rethink of what OA means in those contexts, one would be looking at the closure of (to us) important presses which are part of greater language ecosystem in need of support.

striking staff holding placards and pink/black balloons representing hidden redundancies stand in front of the spire of Edinburgh Futures Institute. Pavement chalk reads 'no more cuts'

UCU Edinburgh STRIKE✊🩷

28 Mar 1627: The first dateable manuscript penned #otd by Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, #Franciscan friar, scribe, historian, lexicographer & one compiler of the Annals of the Four Masters

(His signature from @ucdarchives.bsky.social )

When every university follows the same bad advice from the same consultants with agendas separate from their institutional mission ... they lose their identity as well as their independence.

They lose the ability to play to their own strengths when the consultants' agenda causes systemic failure.

A wonderful John Bannerman Memorial Lecture this evening from Prof Fiona Edmonds on Dál Riata and Northumbria, 700-1000, co-hosted by the departments of Celtic & Scottish Studies and Scottish History.