David Stifter 🍵📄🦊

Source of knowledge for medieval Irish and ancient Celtic languages.

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@1Dunbogue @neilmcguigan ...decisive characteristics of later British Celtic looked like in the 1st c. BC/AD.

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@1Dunbogue @neilmcguigan Well, tough question. I don't buy the idea that Irish/Goidelic is just a q-ified British Celtic. As for the difference between Gaulish and British, it's a bit of an unequal comparison since the two are attested from different times and we cannot see what the really...

[ASNC Cambridge @Department_ASNC]

News: New Assistant Professor of Celtic https://t.co/hEUfA9Mppq

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@poetsoup @medievalgill @JackmanNeil ... the early middle ages, esp. 6th-9th centuries, often called the "Golden Age", are the most consequential. They still reverberate in 21st-century consciousness, and they are the period that many people outside Ireland would be familiar with in one way or another.

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@poetsoup @medievalgill @JackmanNeil First, just to clarify, I do not consider myself a historian, but I am a historical linguist.
Question 1: Very hard to tell, but the late 19th, early 20th century, i.e. the development of the idea of a national identity is very interesting.
Question 2: I do think that...

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@PIE_Animals This is a case for: John 11:35.

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@benjcartlidge @NMIreland You can find and order the entire series here: https://t.co/VVOVZ0SZ8H

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A regular reminder: books about the Ancient Celtic languages are availabe through the Maynooth University Bookshop (e.g., my book on Ogham at https://t.co/c68gMhvp75) or (soon again) in the shop of @nmireland).

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@AmandaChadburn ...to the Iceni coins (or British coins in general), you may want to get in touch with Simon Rodway and Sasha Falileyev in Aberystwyth who are carrying out a research project at the moment in which they will collect all ancient Celtic material from Britain.

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@AmandaChadburn In my ogam book, I provide grammatical information as far as it is relevant to the - grammatically very restricted - Primitive Irish inscriptions. There is no such book for Ancient British, chiefly because the vernacular textual documents are so few. However, with regard...

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@AmandaChadburn @NMIreland Yes, all four known ancient Celtic languages have received one of those booklets: Celtiberian, Gaulish, Cisalpine Celtic, and the Primitive Irish ogam inscriptions. The entire series includes other ancient languages as well: https://t.co/VVOVZ0SZ8H

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@neilmcguigan @NMIreland No, no plans in that direction.

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@GoingawayOf @nrken19 @NMIreland Yes, ogam is a writing system, and that's precisely what I state very explicitly in my book. The inscriptions are not in Old Irish, though, but in Primitive Irish, which is the immediate precursor stage of the language.

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@PIE_Animals Perhaps topical, from this morning's programme: https://t.co/MlA1UBMH5M

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@Seananocoistin @DDindshenchas Níl, tá an tSean-Ghaeilge ró-dheacair chun an méid seo a dhéanamh go huathobibríoch.

NB: Níl mé ar Twitter go rialta níos mó. Tá mo ghnáthóg nádúrtha ar Bluesky anois.

[Rt. Hon Ben Wallace @BenWallace70]

Let’s not forget that as Donald Trump passes judgement on the head of State of Iran there is another one, in the Kremlin, whose signature started the invasion of Ukraine and has left hundreds of thousands of people dead. If the US is not to be seen as hypocritical in its claim that it is re-asserting moral authority then the White House should take a much harder line on Russia.

[Clwyd En Comú @ClwydEnComu]

In 1332, the English parliament spoke French, Colin.

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@JohnFitzart That's actually real. The interior of a hotel in Gran Canaria. 😉

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@JHDScourfield What even fewer people know, the absolutely disgusting true history of the saint commonly known as St Pancake (Sanctus Pancacius), who was Παγκάκκιος in his native Greek.