Profile avatar
gparsons.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer & Head Celtic & Gaelic, University of Glasgow. Celtic Studies, medieval Irish/Gaelic literature, C18th MclaganMSS &c. Pleasantly shocked by hills. Emigrant 🇮🇪🇪🇺
23 posts 325 followers 204 following
Regular Contributor
Conversation Starter
Posts 18 Comments 18

comhghairdeas leat @ninacnock.bsky.social - delighted to see that this is out!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Bidh an clàs againn bhon CÚrsa Bogaidh aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu air an telly a-nochd, air An Là, 8f. PÏos mu dheidhinn Gàidheil òga aig a bheil #Gàidhlig, agus agallamh le mo charaid Tanith, fhad 's a tha sinn uile a' seinn anns an t-seòmar-clàs againn! Tha an sgeul aig www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It was such a pleasure to co-supervise this - thank you @dimitrafimi.bsky.social for inviting me into the project! Very proud of Kris today!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

UofG, in partnership with @glasgowcc.bsky.social have launched Gaelic Connect, a digital platform connecting Glasgow's #Gaelic community. Find cèilidhs, learning groups & more at your fingertips. @sngaidhlig.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Tha an ath choinneamh gu bhith againn oidhche Dhiardaoin sa tighinn (13 An Gearran), 6.30f, Leabharlann Mitchell, leis an Dr Michel Byrne, Oilthigh Ghlaschu. Bidh an Dr Byrne a' bruidhinn air a' cheann: "'Co-chruinneach' 1831: Duanaire Peairteach". Bidh fĂ ilte bhlĂ th oirbh uile!

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Beidh an Scoil Samhraidh sa Léann Ceilteach ar siúl arís i mbliana & is féidir clárú fós. Spriocdháta 31 Márta! Tá tuilleadh eolais le fáil sa nasc thíos. The Celtic Studies Summer School will take place this year & registration is open until 31st March! Further information available in the link👇

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Some #loanwords from Middle #Irish / #Gaelic into Old #Norse Showing cultural influences went both ways in the Viking Age: Schulze-Thulin, Britta. (2021). NOTES ON THE OLD AND MIDDLE IRISH LOANWORDS IN OLD NORSE Nowele Vol. 39, September 2001, 53-84.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

This is the poem I referred to in the Irish Times piece, which may be unfamiliar to some people here.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Off Lindisfarne the waves shiver like monks at their ablutions. Under high horizontals of ice-cloud, the sky scrubbed clean as a dairy. The train darts north, hungry as a tongue… —Alison Fell, “January, 5” from LIGHTYEAR (Smokestack Books, 2005) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/january...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

#NameoftheMonth A lovely name with a gruesome yet seasonally appropriate history: according to tradition Tràigh Bàn (nam Manach) 'White strand (of the monks)' at the northern end of #Iona was where the #Christmas Eve massacre of 986 took place: iona-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/names-of-the...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

My first curmudgeonly post of the new year ✨️ I hate fairy doors. Mossy old trees are magical enough without having some bit of tat nailed to them. Besides, Irish faeries are not like Tinkerbell. Even an agnostic like me knows not to mess, they will absolutely fuck you up.

submitted 59 days ago • 41 comments

Here's an end-of-year present to all lovers of medieval Irish literature and the Finn cycle in particular: a preprint of my new edition of Acaldam Ḟind ⁊ Oiséni "The Dialogue between Find and Oiséne", a 9th-century Old Irish prosimetrical tale about Find mac Cumaill: www.academia.edu/126704997/Ac...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

This year I participated in a documentary with @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social about early medieval Ireland: "The Land of Slaves and Scholars". If you're based in Ireland, you can watch it on RTÉ Player: www.rte.ie/player/movie.... I hope people find it interesting. /1

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

This has been out for a while in French, but the English version has now been published - Katherine Forsyth and I on board games in early Irish literature. Any feedback welcome! www.jstor.org/stable/27343... #CelticStudies

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone with the CSCS term card who is looking forward to Celtic & Gaelic's Matheson lecture on Tues 10th Dec by the brilliant @elvabjohnston.bsky.social - please note that this has had to be rescheduled and will now take place on 29th April. #Celticstudies

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Glasgow Library Fellowships are now open for applications: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... It'd be great to see you in Glasgow if your research would benefit from time spent in Archives and Special Collections here!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Chaidh app Ăšr GĂ idhlig agus Gaeilge (Uladh!) fhoillseachadh gu h-oifigeil ann am Beul Feirste air a bheil Abair Seo www.bbc.co.uk/naidheachdan...

submitted 475 days ago • 0 comments

Wonderful to read of the real impact of the important work of Christos Tsirogiannis here again: www.theguardian.com/culture/2023...

submitted 474 days ago • 0 comments