Míle buíochas!

Thanks @muahi.bsky.social for the recording facilities! @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social for producing, and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social and @researchireland.ie for continued support.

@tiagoovsilva.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social #halloween

Go díreach!

I'm gestating a theory on the Italia '90/Celtic tiger generation as the 1st since the 12th century not to suffer from the same hangover of colonialism as previous generations. Older scholars told me as an undergrad I would have to leave Ireland to make it as an academic as that was their experience.

For more on these topics see Deborah's LEIGHEAS project website and blog @ceilteachomn.bsky.social: leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/lovesickness...

Random is as good an approach as any!

Thank you so much for the kind words — glad you're enjoying it!

Thank you!

We chat Poet-President Michael D. Higgins, the high status of poets, constrained poetical forms, the popularity of the blackbird in Irish poetry, Seámus Heaney, whether medieval Irish poetry rhymed, how to become a poet and much more! Thanks @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie for support.

We'll be speaking for about an hour and then the chats afterwards I suppose!

* @hoireabhard.bsky.social who has been our postdoctoral researcher on the project since May, and PhD candidate @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social. Looking forward to sharing some of the results of our work! 2/2