Rachel Martin

PhD student, Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard, mainly focused on the Mythological Cycle. All opinions my own.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

Anyway, while I'm hunkered down waiting for this hurricane to pass, have this wild play about a meet-up between Niamh 2.0 and Gráinne ní Mháille.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@Amylouioc It's a bleak, bleak world for those of us who just want to have a little sticker on our laptops without seeing AI Bodybuilder Cú Chulainn.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

I can't make any promises, but, by (incredibly popular) demand, Shaun Davey's suite *might* be making a brief cameo in my next paper on Gráinne ní Mháille.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@IMC_Leeds asked and so I'll deliver: Me and the slightly awkward statue of Richard III at Middleham. (I fell in love with it at first sight.)

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

My nightmares now apparently include "Can't remember which Dindshenchas text I'm referring to but knowing it's in there *somewhere*"

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@MarieTheuerkauf @HarvardCeltic @FSAnglistikBonn @MSCActions We'll be very glad to have you! (Also, we might have to hit up The Hourly again, I don't have the excuse to go when it's just me.)

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@BasilAPrice Look forward to seeing you over here!

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

Listening to Paris Paloma's "Labour" in the hopes that the concentrated fury will help give me the momentum to finish this conference paper.

[Janey Godley @JaneyGodley]

I love this scene. It upsets so many and I can’t understand why https://t.co/zNLnAGRHH4

[Amy Louise (shop back open!) @Amylouioc]

Little reminder that I am now a freelance girly and available for illustration projects and workshops!

If anyone has any drawing they want doing, please get in touch (I'm honestly very lovely)

💌 [email protected]

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@Amylouioc Bonus if you say that the TDD are the Seelie and the Fomoiri are the Unseelie -- Put those medieval figures BACK in their historical context or so help me God.

[The Irish For @theirishfor]

The Irish for a racist wanker is cunús ciníoch.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

It isn't even done yet and we have references to the dissertation being divided into "acts" with "dramatis personae."

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

I think that my prospectus might be the single most aggressively recovering theatre kid thing I've ever written in my life.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

Delighted to be taking part in this later this summer!

[TudorStuartIreland @TudorStuartIre]

Registration is now open for #TSIXII in Galway this August: https://t.co/WxUyNBCBb6… Check out this year's program below and see our webpage for more.

[Fionn Folklore @FionnFolklore]

Several tales make it clear that Oisín and Patrick are having a conversation. Sometimes they speak with quite a degree of civility. Versions of Laoi na Mná Móire (such as https://t.co/ymtlGD9rrb) see them speak in a friendly manner at the start and end of the tale.

[Fionn Folklore @FionnFolklore]

Tá Mí na Féile Pádraig linn! With St. Patrick's day coming along soon we should remind ourselves that it was Patrick and his scribe who supposedly collected the stories we know and love from Oisín or Caoilte. Oisín and Patrick had many debates, not always good-natured

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@ShanRoseParker My best friend from my program in Cork had a XBox, and so I played through the entire series while I was there, as soon as it was possible to visit other people when the pandemic was called. I can't overestimate how much those games meant and still mean to me.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

I'm not including BG3 just because it's ongoing, but Fable II, which got me through a pandemic, Endless Ocean, which nearly convinced me I wanted to become a marine biologist, Valhalla, which I've made so many friends and connections because of, and the one that started it all.

[Hugo Sahuquet @HugoShelter]

Retweet with photos of games that hold a special place in your life.

Here are the four games that would most define why I make games today:
The feeling of adventure of Grandia.
The poetic tale of FFX.
The unique beauty of Homeworld.
The epic journey of Tales of Symphonia.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@aliciaandrz @AcademicChatter Sometimes, something stuck out to the students that isn't on the formal agenda for the section -- if so, strike it, because explaining why the texts work a certain way, imo, is more important.

[Rachel Martin @RachelA_Martin]

@aliciaandrz @AcademicChatter The first thing I do, each section, though, is to ask them what they THOUGHT of a specific text, inviting them to be subjective. This might seem to be unacademic and counter-productive, but it helps me gauge the feeling in the room and what might need to be explained.