In the news today, a new resource on Scottish Gaelic terms for shellfish. Plenty of new evidence on words for crabs and oysters and edible seaweed coming in the 2019 update of eDIL also!

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/new-gaelic-dictionary-for-shellfish-unveiled-1-4736157

New Gaelic dictionary for shellfish unveiled

Dozens of Gaelic names for Scottish shellfish have been published under a heritage agency’s drive to promote the use of the “fragile” language.

A busy period coming up for eDIL ….

As well as welcoming a new member of staff and conferences in Cork and Italy, Dr Sharon Arbuthnot will be speaking at the 18th Euralex International Congress, which will be held on 17-21 July in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The subject of her talk is ‘Updating and Expanding a Retro-digitised Dictionary: Some Insights from the Dictionary of the Irish Language’.

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, who is currently an O'Donovan Scholar at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, will be joining the eDIL team from June 2018. Dr Theuerkauf will be based at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge.

Excited to be part of the 32nd Irish Conference of Historians, which will be held at University College, Cork, on 26-28 April, 2018. This year’s theme is'Sex, Sexuality & Reproduction: Historical Perspectives', and eDIL’s Sharon Arbuthnot will be speaking on ‘The Lost Vocabulary of Medieval Irish Sex and Reproduction’.

We are very pleased to be taking part in the '9th International Conference on Historical Lexicology and Lexicography' in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, this summer. On Friday, 22 June, from 4.30pm onwards, eDIL will be discussed in the course of two papers from project staff:

Gregory Toner ‘Machine Learning and the Historical Lexicon of Irish’

Sharon Arbuthnot ‘Explanatory and Etymological Glosses in the Dictionary of the Irish Language’

https://ichll9.wordpress.com/programme/

More job-related news...

Faclair na Gàidhlig (Dictionary of the Scottish Gaelic Language) is seeking to appoint a manuscripts transcriber, focussing on material from the Early Modern period. Further details below. Those interested should contact Lorna Pike in the first instance at lp.smo@uhi.ac.uk.

The eDIL Project is currently seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate, based at the University of Cambridge. The post is for 12 months and the closing date is 14th February 2018. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested.

https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/index.htm

current vacancies

The University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the AHRC-funded project: Text and Meaning: Contributions to a Revised Dictionary of Medieval Irish, hosted jointly by the University of Cambridge and Queen’s University Belfast. The post holder will be b...

In case you missed it…

The Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held at Maynooth University, 5-8 September, 2018. The deadline for proposals is 31 January, so still time to submit!

http://www.henrysweet.org/news/henry-sweet-society-colloquium-2018-call-for-papers/

Henry Sweet Society colloquium 2018 — Call for Papers

Please find attached the Call for Papers (click HERE) for the 2018 Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society to be beld at Maynooth University, Ireland. Contributions on any aspect of the history of linguistics and linguistic ideas are welcome, as are proposals for panel discussions or thematic s...