A long time in the making, but 'A History of Ireland in 100 Words', a general-interest book written as part of the impact work the eDIL project, will be in shops and on shelves very soon. In the meantime, you can pre-order from https://www.ria.ie/publications/new-publications

We still have some places left at our schools' event at the Dublin Book Festival.

Dipping into medieval Irish in search of unusual and unforgettable evidence for contact between Ireland and the outside world!

'French Turkeys and Roof-Holes'
Fri 15 Nov
11.00am

The event is free but booking is essential.

http://www.dublinbookfestival.com/whatwordsreveal/

Just 80 copies left of the special limited run of our 'History of Ireland in 100 Words'! Preorder now to secure a copy with this stunning comet on the cover ✨

As part of the Schools' Programme at the Dublin Book Festival, we'll be dipping into medieval Irish in search of unusual and unforgettable evidence for contact between Ireland and the outside world.

The talk is called 'French Turkeys and Roof-Holes'. It's on Friday, 15 November, at 11am, and it is intended to entertain as well as inform adults and students aged 14+.

Please spread the word and be sure to book in advance (the event is entirely free):

http://www.dublinbookfestival.com/whatwordsreveal/

We'll be at the Dublin Book Festival on Friday, 15 November, for a workshop on 'Writing the Script: Letters and Literacy in Medieval Ireland'. This event will be in collaboration with calligrapher Timothy O'Neill and participants will have the opportunity to learn the early Irish terms for the practices and paraphernalia of writing, to view manuscripts and to try their hand at writing with the materials medieval scribes would have used. Book now. Limited places.

http://www.dublinbookfestival.com/writing-the-script-letters-and-literacy-in-medieval-ireland/

Revisiting the past in many different ways, I’ve written a short blog on how the Dictionary of the Irish Language can be used to locate words that might not have been known in Ireland!

https://gaelic.co/uniquely-gaelic-words/

The new, improved, corrected and expanded version of eDIL is now live at www.dil.ie. Use it, explore it, enjoy it at your leisure...

A little taster of what's to come in 'eDIL 2019'...

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0822/1070283-10-medieval-irish-words-we-didnt-know-about-before-now/

On Friday, 30th August, ‘eDIL 2019’ will be officially launched by Professor Richard Sharpe in the Royal Irish Academy.

All being well, the eDIL website (www.dil.ie) will update at the same time.

5000 changes, more than 500 new entries and no more broken links (or just a few😀)

Final details of our 'Researching Heritage in the Classroom' event on Thursday...

We'll be in 3 University Square, room G01.

From 10.30am until around 4pm.

If anyone is still planning to attend, please email f.kane@qub.ac.uk asap!

If you enjoy Word of the Week and the eDIL Twitter account, you might be interested in 'A History of Ireland in 100 Words', written by members of the eDIL team. It's a stunning book, aimed at a general readership with no prior knowledge of Irish, and it covers everything from turkeys to text-speak and Tolkien in what we hope is a fun and informative way! Available to preorder now:

https://www.ria.ie/history-ireland-100-words

Next Thursday we’ll be part of a free CPD event for teachers and student-teachers in Northern Ireland

Full details are on the flyer but, if you’d like to come along and help us develop classroom resources for Irish, History and Geography, register now to ensure there’s enough lunch to go around!

https://ecommerce.apps.qub.ac.uk/osrhc2019/catalog/

We’re looking forward to presenting a session at the upcoming International Congress of Celtic Studies, in Bangor, Wales, on what you can expect from 'eDIL 2019' and how you can get the most out of it for your own research. The session will take place on Tuesday, 23 July, 11.30am-1pm. As well as giving out pens and taking questions, we’ll have three papers:

Sharon Arbuthnot: ‘Content changes in eDIL 2019’
Marie-Luise Theuerkauf: ‘Using the new eDIL: a how-to guide’
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh: ‘Looking outwards: eDIL and Irish loanwords’

http://celticcongress.bangor.ac.uk/programme

ELEX 2019: SMART LEXICOGRAPHY

Registration is now open for the 2019 conference in electronic lexicography, held in Sintra, Portugal from 1-3 October.

More information here:

https://elex.link/elex2019/?fbclid=IwAR2JcLdUhDz36UwOMn4ZzumZy5R_zPYiqVWuzNiZaZtqaW-iJf-1ameKXJc

‘Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany’, edited by Salvador Ryan, has just been published by Wordwell Press. There are about 80 short articles in all, so something will surely catch your eye whatever your particular interests. Should you be inclined towards words and/or wayward women, however, you might want to check out two papers by members of the eDIL team. Sharon Arbuthnot writes on ‘The Language of Marriage’, while Gregor Toner takes a look at ‘The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn’…

https://wordwellbooks.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1887

'To frighten off the rude and ignorant'

Yet another fantastic conference is taking place at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies this weekend. If you like your language obscure and your words difficult (we do!), do check in to 10 Burlington Road this Friday and Saturday!

See the conference programme here:
https://www.dias.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Conference-schedule.pdf

Great event in TCD this week!
If you are in Dublin this week and are interested in Irish manuscripts, be sure not to miss TCD's 'Tales and Anecdotes from Irish Manuscripts' conference this Thursday and Friday! Registration and programme here:

https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/whats-on/details/event.php?eventid=132206550