David Stifter 🍵📄🦊

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊

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Ollamh Sinsearach le Léann Ceilteach, BARE / Senior Professor in Celtic Studies, MRIA Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 🇮🇪 ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM, DiAgnostic, Ancient Celtic ⁊rl. ⚫️⚪️ https://www.dias.ie/

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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By way of 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮: In the last days huge numbers have started to follow me. So maybe it is appropriate to say something about myself. I teach Old Irish at @maynoothuni.bsky.social and propagate it world-wide via my introduction to the language, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐨í𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐜: www.siopaleabhar.com/en/tairgi/se.... /1

siopaleabhar.comSengoidelc - An Siopa LeabharDavid Stifter’s Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a course text and as a guide for the independent learner, ...

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Myriah Williams
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For Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday, a letter from the president to Celticist John Rhŷs regarding one of his books - which one I wonder? “I anticipate reading your book, and I am sure I shall enjoy it.”

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One for the diary: John Gillis, Chief Manuscript Conservator (TCD): "The Faddan More Psalter at twenty: materiality, technology, and the Insular book" Lecture followed by book launch of "Fíngein mac Flaind’s Poem on the Fir Arda" by Liam Breatnach. Wed 28 October 17.00 @scs-dias.bsky.social

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A necessary article by @timhannigan.bsky.social about one of the bizarre and outlandish peculiarities of Ireland, namely the lack of a right to publicly access the countryside: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2... Aspects of this may already be there in early medieval Irish neighbourhood law.

irishtimes.comIreland has the worst public access to countryside in Europe. How did this happen?How has our country ended up with perhaps the worst public access to the countryside in Europe? There’s none of the ‘right to roam’ you find elsewhere
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 42 Since administrative issues in the wake of moving the DiⒶgnostic project to @dias.ie have taken up so much time, it has been a while since I reported about progress in the project work as such. Especially details of the future hosting of the CorPH database on a DIAS server...

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...in an annotated spreadsheet. We hope to make it publicly available soon, but some copyright issues need to be clarified first. This preliminary list will be used to pick representative texts and add them to CorPH. The texts must not be formulaic, but need to contain a variety of syntactical...

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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...structures and lexicon in order to give a broad picture of language variation in Old and Early Middle Irish. Texts that Francesco Felici and Truc have been adding so far include poems from the Reichenau Primer (e.g., the famous poem Messe ocus Pangur Bán) or Comrac Líadaine ocus Chuirithir.

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 42 Since administrative issues in the wake of moving the DiⒶgnostic project to @dias.ie have taken up so much time, it has been a while since I reported about progress in the project work as such. Especially details of the future hosting of the CorPH database on a DIAS server...

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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...still need attention (and are sometimes moving forward very slowly), but we are making good headway now. Truc Ha Nguyen has finished an extensive annotated list of regionally identifiable Old and Middle Irish texts. She included all fundamental information about texts from medieval Ireland...

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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"A History of Ireland in 100 Words" was written by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Gregory Toner in 2019 to accompany the on-going development of the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL). The book is available here: shop.ria.ie/products/a-h...

shop.ria.ieA history of Ireland in 100 wordsThis book tells a history of Ireland through the examination of 100 key words from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language, the most comprehensive dictionary of Irish in existence. ...
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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IVAGENI MAQI LAISCEMITA (I-LIM-003 = CIIC 259, Mount Russell, Co. Limerick). IVAGENI "yew-born" is Ir. Eogan, but LAISCEMITA is not so clear. Maybe connected with OIr. Loiscibet. #ogham inscription

Adrian Doyle@andubhghailleach.bsky.social

Apparently the reading is IVANGENI MAQUI LAISCOPITA. Though I could read very little of this, I did see what looked like a second stem line cut alongside the natural one at the edge of the stone’s face.

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Aonghus Ó hAlmhain
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As naimhdeas don seangán vótáil an chiaróg dhubh don fheithidnimh. Maraíodh cách, an dreoilín teaspaigh a d'fhág a bhallóid bán agus an míoltóg nár vótáil in aon chor san áireamh.

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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I notice that because of the PHP security issues that were announced yesterday, a lot of websites are currently unavailable, among them eDIL, Corpus PalaeoHibernicum, Lexicon Leponticum, CODECS and apparently also various personal websites.

David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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Ancient Celtic Working Group #3 yesterday: We looked in detail at the letters in the Lepontic inscription TI·36 from Davesco (Cn. Ticino), but especially at the largely illegible third inscription TI·36.3 on its back side, which nevertheless, where letters are still visible, displays several...

Clyde Dlugy-Belmont@clyde.eurosky.social

J'ai été aidé, mais j'ai enfin répondu à une question que je me posais sur 'peul' en breton. Je m'en doutais, mais cela semble bien venir du latin : en.wiktionary.org/wiki/palus#E...

en.wiktionary.orgpalus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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...intriguing graphic peculiarities. And we then started on the question of the difficult and contentious phonological and/or phonetic interpretation of the deficient and undercharacterised Lepontic alphabet. 😬 Fitting for the time of year, I am afraid this question will haunt us for a while.

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Seán Ó Hoireabhárd
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The @dias.ie @scs-dias.bsky.social 'Samhain agus Science' Lecture takes place on October 29 at 7pm. Tickets below: Grisly tales from the Anglo-Norman advance: horrors of the twelfth century Tickets, Thursday 29 October  •  7 PM - 8 PM | Eventbrite share.google/UiHzUNyMP4fa...

share.googleGrisly tales from the Anglo-Norman advance: horrors of the twelfth centuryDr Seán Ó Hoirebhárd brings us tales from the 12th Century

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Ennius
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The scribe Eadberct's complaint: "Qui nescit scribere putat hoc esse nullum laborem: tres digiti scribant, totum corpus laborat." St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 243; Collectio canonum hibernensis; 1st half of the 9th century; St. Gall; p.254 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy
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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 12, the Book of Ballymote. Written in 1391 in Ballymote, Co. Sligo, this is a compilation of religious and secular material in the Irish language. There is also an image of figures on a boat on the front flyleaf, possibly a depiction of Noah’s Ark.

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Royal Irish Academy
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Táimid ag cur tús le Seachtain na Leabhar Éireannach trí cheiliúradh a dhéanamh ar @ansiopaleabhar.bsky.social, siopa leabhar speisialaithe Gaeilge i mBaile Átha Cliath. We’re beginning #IrishBookWeek by celebrating An Siopa Leabhar, Dublin’s specialist Irish-language bookshop.

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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw
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A magnificent hidden treasure of Scottish history - The Book of Deer and which also includes some records of gifts of land written in Scots Gaelic (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ii.6.32) #medievalsky

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Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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Monday is a crucial day for DIAS Dunsink Observatory as Fingal County Council votes on the Dunsink Area Plan. We have asked all 40 councillors to support measures protecting the Observatory’s heritage, scientific future and our UNESCO World Heritage bid. www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

rte.ieObservatory concerned over impact of Dunsink housing planIreland's oldest scientific institution says it is concerned about the impact plans for a new urban quarter in west Dublin could have on its operation.
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊
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Ancient Celtic Working Group #2 yesterday: I gave a very brief introduction to the Lepontic a.k.a. Lugano script, and then we plunged head-on into the corpus of Lepontic pala-inscriptions. They are a perfect starting point: they are easy to understand and interpret and some are well preserved.