eDIL - Irish Language Dictionary

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We'll be at Leeds International Medieval Congress on Thursday, 6th July, as part of a session on 'Lexicography and Loanwords in Britain and Ireland'.

Other papers in the session will be presented by Richard Dance of the Gersum Project, University of Cambridge, and Heather Pagan of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University.

Hoping to see many of you there!

3 weeks ago

Sharon Arbuthnot of the eDIL project will be speaking on 'Gaelic in History and eDIL' at Celtic Knot, the first Wikipedia Language conference. The event is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK and focuses on how technology can support Celtic & Indigenous Languages.

The eDIL talk will form part of pre-conference events on Wednesday, 5 July, 2-4pm, and will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Main Library.

If you are in Edinburgh at the time, please come along! Places can be booked through the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-gaelic-tickets-34232034938

1 month ago

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1 month ago

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1 month ago

Celtic Studies Association of North America

Befriend the Welsh Dictionary Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru – The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language – is pleased to launch Cyfeillion GPC – Friends of the Dictionary – a society created to promote and support the Dictionary and its aims. We are delighted that Myrddin ap Dafydd, the renowned Prifardd, author, dramatist, and founder of Gwasg Carreg Gwalch (the successful Welsh publishing company) has accepted our invitation to be Cyfeillion GPC’s president, and will address the Cyfeillion at the inaugural event to be held at the National Library of Wales, Saturday 17th June, 2017. Followed by a visit to the Dictionary, this promises to be an interesting and enjoyable afternoon. Therefore we extend a very warm welcome to any of our North American Welsh friends to the launch of Cyfeillion GPC – perhaps it fits in with an existing trip to Wales? Should you not be able to join us on the day, we very much hope you will join the society in order to help us introduce GPC to a wider audience, and nurture our language and its heritage. For details of how to join Cyfeillion GPC, and the benefits offered, please visit our website http://www.geiriadur.ac.uk. Alternatively you may contact us by post at Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3HH, Wales; email gpc@geiriadur.ac.uk, or telephone +44 1970 631039. We look forward to making new friends!

2 months ago

Anyone in Italy?

On Monday, 24 April, Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, CI of the eDIL project, will speak on 'Verbal Play in Medieval Ireland' as part of the 'Play and games in the early medieval culture and society' programme, Settimana di Studio 2017, Spoleto, Italy

http://www.cisam.org/en-scheda-eventi-alto-medioevo.php?id=27

Play and games in the early medieval culture and society

2 months ago

Dr. Emily McEwan

Throwback Thursday | Diardaoin Ais-sheallach 💙📖 That time I interviewed Dr. Sharon Arbuthnot about the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, a historical Gaelic dictionary online #dictionarynerd #nerdpride #ilikebigebooksandicannotlie

2 months ago

Patrick in eDIL!

To mark St Patrick's Day, the AHRC (who fund the eDIL project) have published a great piece by Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on searching for Patrick in eDIL and the fascinating information that can be accessed as a result...

http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/research/readwatchlisten/features/the-unsilent-saint-st-patrick-and-the-irish-language/

The Unsilent Saint: St Patrick and the Irish Language - Arts and Humanities Research Council

In celebration of St Patrick's Day, Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh of the University of Cambridge's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic tells us about Ireland's patron saint, and how digitization of medieval texts has helped reveal for all the history of the much-loved Irish saint.

3 months ago

A reminder for anyone in or near Cambridge that the H.M. Chadwick Lecture is today at 5 pm...

3 months ago

Selfie, alt-right and pre-drinks added to new English-Irish dictionary

The editor said that the new dictionary “covers every level of language use, from formal to informal, from polite to vulgar”.

3 months ago

eDIL's Dagmar Wodtko will speak on 'Foreign names in medieval Irish' at the SNSBI Twenty-sixth Spring Conference 2017.

The conference will take place at the Milton Hill House Hotel in Milton near Didcot. Dr Wodtko's talk will be at 8pm on Saturday, 25th March.

http://www.snsbi.org.uk/2017_Milton.html

SNSBI: 2017 spring conference

The Spring Conference will be held from March 24 to 27 at the Milton Hill House Hotel in Milton near Didcot (SU475901). The location of the conference commemorates the earlier county survey volumes of Margaret Gelling; Milton was historically in Berkshire but is now in Oxfordshire (Gelling, The plac...

4 months ago