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Head of #Folklore | #Béaloideas @ UCD (e/sé/he). Co-Ed Folk Life. #Gàidhlig agam. #Bagpiping. #Birding. Ethnographies of communication, the more-than-human, natureculture, endangered languages. 🍁-ach thar lear ag baile san Oileán Epekwitk 🌊
An creideamh, an Ghaeilge agus na cnámha aduaine
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Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
i mo chleamaire faoi dheireadh! great day @nmireland.bsky.social with our #ethnology students, hosted by my former student Tiernan Gaffney, Asst. Keeper Folklife. Met Pádraig Ó Ruairc, tried on a strawboy costume he made, and watched him donate it to the collection! #folklore #mumming #BuachaillíTuí
Maidin inniu | Madainn an diugh | this morning… talking about displacement and loss through entangled ontologies of human and more-than-human being and endangerment in the North Atlantic #dúthchas #oireas #seanchas
Walking with lemurs… lemur.duke.edu/protect/sava...
Join us next week for our next online talk: Dr David Clarke and Andrew Robinson on ‘Flying Saucery: How UFOs Landed in the British Isles’. Tuesday 1 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flying-sau...
We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...
Chonaic mé an rón glas seo ar a Life in aice le Droichead Grattan tráthnóna inné… spotted this grey seal on the Liffey up past the Grattan Bridge yesterday afternoon! 🦭
Geabhróg ag iascaireacht ag béal na Dothra i gCeantar na nDugaí… a tern fishing at the mouth of the Dodder in Dublin’s Docklands…
Gaelic singer Mairi MacMillan, from South Uist, sent me this gorgeous song about the skylark, the uiseag, as a symbol of hope 🤍🎶 mairimacmillan.bandcamp.com/track/uiseag...
Words from my Substack essay: open.substack.com/pub/mairimcf...
My latest post on Substack; an attempt to make sense of what it means to be a parent in a world convulsing with crisis 💔
Aiseag is the Gaelic word for a ferry boat—it also simply means a ‘return.’ Here I return to a place, to what matters, to #activehope.
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A white man with beard and caps standing in front of a big screen.
Opening keynote of #nefk2025, Antti Lindfors on science and nsture imitation in contemporary self-care
Chaidh làrach-lìn ùr, taobh a-muigh fhoillseachadh le còrr is 5,000 sgeulachd no mith-sgeul ann an Gàidhlig na h-Alba, Gaeilge na h-Èireann agus Beurla. […]
Tha mòran de na sgeulachdan gam foillseachadh gu poblach airson a' chiad uair.
Delighted to announce our new website www.hiddenheritages.ai/en. The Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 folktales from manuscript and printed sources. It really is a treasure trove of stories in Gàidhlig, Irish and English. Enjoy! @fsg-dcu.bsky.social @gaois.bsky.social
Canny Craw | An Fheannag Fhoghlaimte | Collegiate Crow #OilthighObarDheathain #UniversityOfAberdeen #SIEF2025
Streaked Shearwater has been documented in the North Atlantic for the first time, sparking suggestions that the species could appear in British waters in the future:
Tús maith le mí an Mheithimh ag bualadh leis na lachíní seo i bPáirc Hoirbeaird | a nice start to June meeting these ducklings in Herbert Park | Deagh thoiseach dhan Òg-mhìos a’ coinneachadh leis na lachagan seo ann am Pàirc Hoirbeaird
In recognition of his tireless advocacy for folklore and understanding the human experience, pioneering ethnologist Professor Henry Glassie received an honorary degree from @ucddublin.bsky.social last week 🎻🎶
Read more about the ceremony & celebration
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#Wrensday morning commute started with salutations from my neighbour Troglodytes troglodytes - #dreathandonn #dreóilín #thekingofallbirds 🪶
Gur h-iomadh caochladh tighinn air an t-saoghal / 'S ro-bheag a shaoil mi nuair bha mi thall… An car a fhuair mi cha b'ann gum bhuannachd / Tighinn thar a' chuain air a' chuairt bha meallt’ -Am Bàrd Mac’illEathain #AChoilleGhruamach #TheGloomyForest #ÒrainGhàidhlig #Displacement #Migration #cianalas
Wings like whispers, eyes like fire.
Gliding through a pastel sky—silent, sharp, sacred. Photo by: jennilsphotography
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way” - #DrMLKJr … ged ’s beag tha ’n drannd-eun, ’s mòr tha cumhachd a chridhe… although the hummingbird is small, its heart’s force is mighty…
New research into the fossil record of Macaronesia has uncovered a formerly rich diversity of gadfly petrel species that have mostly disappeared from the North Atlantic:
“What? What? Where? Where? See it! See it!” 🪶 🎶 #Birdsong #Mimesis #IndigoBunting #MoodIndigo #Birding
Are you coming to UCD Festival on Saturday 7th June 2025? At the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture, we'll be presenting a range of activities, and we might be a bit more peaceful that some parts of the campus, if you'd like a gentle sensory experience.
ANSOC's Kate Kanne, with @helenebenkert.bsky.social & Camille M.L. Vo Van Qui are very pleased & proud to announce that our edited volume "Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History" from the amazing @sidestone.bsky.social is officially published open access!
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇
Les vautours et les pigeons… De acciptribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant… war and peace…
Moments in nature 🍃
📹 @whistlingjoe.bsky.social