Help us find out more about how and why people use eDIL by completing the survey that is now on the website of the Concise Edition. It only takes a couple of minutes ... or you can spend more time and tell us about your interests if you wish. Huge thanks to everyone who has given us feedback already!

http://dil.ie

Happy Valentine's Day to all of you!

We thought we would cook up something very special for all those who LOVE Old Irish and for those who are still falling in love with it. And what could possibly be more romantic than a new eDIL feature on our website!?

Welcome to eDIL-the consise edition (affectionately known as eDIL Lite): http://dil.ie/

Here you can type in an English word and find all Irish entries with a matching definition (as shown for the word 'love' below). You can 'Switch to full edition' at any time by clicking on the button beside the search bar or you can click on any of the Irish words shown to bring you to the full entry. A list of 'Suggested Searches' should give you an idea.

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Your eDIL Team

COMING SOON. We are pleased to announce that a new concise edition of eDIL aimed at the general user will appear soon. It will contain simplified contents showing just the headword and definitions. If you are a regular user, you won’t be affected but you will be able to switch between the two versions if you want.

We had a fantastic turnout at the eDIL workshop in UCC last Saturday! It was great to see so many Irish and History teachers attend, and learn how to make the most out of eDIL and other medieval Irish sources in the classroom. We hope to see them again soon for a follow-up event!!!

Pictured here (left to right):

Dr Rebecca Shercliff (Cambridge)
Dr Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (UCC)
Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge)

Exciting times ahead this week! Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Dr Rebecca Shercliff will be going to University College Cork this Saturday to talk to teachers of Irish and History about how to get the most out of eDIL for teaching!
If you know a post-primary teacher working in the UK or Ireland who might be interested in using eDIL in their classroom, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us via Facebook or Twitter! So don't be shy to tag your teacher friends!!!

Get a taste for birds and bugs! If you are excited to see which new words are going to be part of the revised electronic dictionary, check out Sharon Arbuthnot's recent article on birds and insects in the latest Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies available here:
http://www.cmcspublications.com/journal.html

CMCS | Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies | Journal

Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies (CMCS) is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal has an excellent reputation and provides an outstanding resource for students of Celtic Studies and anyone with an interest in Celtic topics.

Closing soon!!!

The CfP deadline for the 2019 TOTh Conference is Friday 25th January!

'The TOTh (Terminology, Onthology, Theories and applications) community was created more than ten years ago and, ever since, has drawn together researchers, teachers, trainers, practitioners, users and industrialists whose interests concern terminology and, in a more general way, the links between language and knowledge in the context of our discipline.

TOTh is open to all streams of thought, and sets out to provide a forum of exchange and sharing where problems are presented along with solutions and feedback from experience, on both the theoretic and the applied planes, as well as new tendencies and perspectives in the disciplines associated with terminology (translation, lexicography, knowledge engineering, the information sciences …).'

All information available here:

http://toth.condillac.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TOTh-2019-Call-for-papers-English-2.pdf

toth.condillac.org

In other lexicography news:

'Smart Lexicography' (apart from being eDIL's philosophy :D) is also the theme of the 2019 ELEX (Electronic LExicography) conference in Sintra, Portugal.

See details here:

https://elex.link/elex2019/

If you're wondering what we have been up to during the past five years on the eDIL project, you might be interested in Greg Toner's section of a newly published article on 'Early Irish Lexicography'. The article, co-authored with Aaron Griffith and David Stifter, appeared in vol. 63 of the journal Kratylos and can be read online here:
https://www.academia.edu/38001905/Early_Irish_Lexicography_-_A_Research_Survey_preprint_preredaction_

An amazing opportunity!

The OED is advertising summer internships at their Oxford offices for General Editor and Science Editor! For all you lexicophiles who would like to gain hands-on experience in what it means to write a dictionary, apply here: https://public.oed.com/about/oed-internships/

Deadline : 13th January 2019

It's that time of the year again! If you wish to brush up on your festive vocabulary and where it came from, see this post by #OED on all things #Christmas:
https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/12/18/oed-christmas-words-yule-noel/

A very OED Christmas | OxfordWords blog

OED Consultant Editor Henry Hitchings unwraps the lexical history of Christmas with a little help from the Oxford English Dictionary.

After our fantastic eDIL talk to Cambridge's Irish Studies Group on Tuesday last week, we are already looking ahead to what's happening next year!

The Spring 2019 Collection in Conferences will feature two fantastic events close to eDIL's heart! Up first, we have the fourth installment in the Codices Hibernenses Series:

7-8 March 2019
'”A little remnant of the work of the ancients”: 23 N 10: the Book of Ballycummin’

Then, in May, another event for all the lexicophiles among you:

A conference on obscure words and language in Irish and Welsh organised by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

LEXICOGRAPHY EVENT--CFP closing SOON!

See the CfP for the international conference >>E-dictionaries and e-lexicography<<, which will be held on 10 and 11 May 2019 in Zagreb. The CfP is closing on 1st December 2018! Only three days left!!

Find more information on the conference here:
http://ihjj.hr/mreznik/page/e-rjecnici-i-e-leksikografija/8/ (in Croation and English)

Busy times…

Next week, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh & Sharon Arbuthnot will be talking about 'Text-speak and French Turkeys: Exploring Ireland's History Through Some Early Irish Words'.

The talk will take place on Tuesday, 27 November, at 8.45pm, in The Parlour, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

As always, if you're in a position to come along, please do!

A huge ‘thank-you’ to everyone who came along to ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’ on Monday evening and who joined in with the quiz, laughed on cue and generally gave us such a warm reception. We can only hope that BÁNBHIA ‘dairy products’ and FIODHCHAT ‘mousetrap’ are now part of your everyday speech! 😀

A final reminder that, if you are in or about Belfast tomorrow, we would love to see you for ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’, a free talk/quiz looking at fun, quirky and curious words from medieval Ireland.

Monday, 19th November, 6.00pm, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, Room 02/018. See you there!

If you are in or near Belfast…

Please come along to our free talk/quiz on Medieval Irish, which forms part of this year’s Being Human festival of the humanities. Entitled ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’, the event will be presented by Professor Greg Toner and Dr Sharon Arbuthnot. Details as follows:

Monday, 19 November 6-7pm
Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB (Room /02/018)
Everyone welcome
Bring your phone … and spread the word!

https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/words-you-didnt-know-you-needed/

Words You Didn’t Know You Needed - Being Human

Fun and informative, ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’ is an interactive quiz-based performance which aims to stimulate interest in broad concepts of language renewal, obsolescence and change, and to build awareness of the varied history of the Irish language in particular. The event focuses ...

In the lead-up to our event in Belfast on 19th November for the Being Human festival, I’ve written a short blog on forgotten phrases, the dictionary and what to expect from the 2019 update. It’s called ‘Modern Words from Medieval Ireland.

https://beinghumanfestival.org/modern-words-from-medieval-ireland/

On Saturday, at the Tionól of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh showcased some of the changes that we will be making when eDIL is updated in 2019, including words that will be listed for the first time, new senses that will be added to existing entries, and ghost words that will be 'busted'. Favourite new addition so far? DO UCHTBIDGADAR 'they were shaken to the core’, literally ‘they breast-jumped’ (Stair Nicoméid 28.518)!