We'll be in @CobblestoneDub tomorrow for #SessionWithThePipers, Tuesday 3 September with @HarringtonCrush, @TheRollingWave, Steve Larkin & @DStiubhard! Tickets: https://t.co/WML3blHuLH #napiobairi #uilleann #sharingthesound @artscouncil_ie

Join us for #SessionwiththePipers in @Cobblestonedub Tues 3 Sept with @HarringtonCrush, @TheRollingWave, Steve Larkin & @DStiubhard! Tickets available at the door and on Eventbrite: https://t.co/TsbcWZLqe2 #napiobairi #uilleann #sharingthesound @artscouncil_ie

Great night at #Sessionwiththepipers last week! Thanks to the artists, our audience & @CobblestoneDub Join us Tues 3 Sept for @HarringtonCrush, @TheRollingWave, Steve Larkin & @DStiubhard: https://t.co/TsbcWZLqe2 #napiobairi #uilleann #sharingthesound @artscouncil_ie

Just got this great album ‘An Sionnach Dubh’ by Dàibhidh Stiùbhard @DStiubhard .. strong songs from the Ulster tradition, Irish language tradition and Scots Gàidhlig with stunning artwork by Ciaran Hurson

Extremely proud that we attracted 40 bursary sponsors this year and were in a position to support 60 young musicians attending our summer school. These young people benefited from 5 days tuition with master musicians, breaking down barriers of access. @UlsterUni @ArtsCouncilNI

🎶 BELFAST TRADFEST SA CHULTÚRLANN 🎶 An-oíche cheolmhar chultúrtha go deo a bhí againn ar an Mháirt seo caite. Bhí ceol againn ó Dhàibhidh Stiùbhard, Pádraig Rynne, Tara Howley, Aimée Farrell Courtney, Mirabella Murray, John McIntyre! #belfasttradfest #ceol #irishmusic

⛰️ Ceol ón Earagail - Abair Amhrán | TG4 🔔 Domhnach ~ Sunday @ 21.30 'Cad é sin don té sin?' - Marcas, Róise agus Caitríona Ó Murchú. Léargas ar 'Abair Amhrán', an leabhar amhráin mór le rá, le Sibéal Ní Chasaide, Emma Ní Fhíoruisce ⁊ go leor eile. @EaragailArts

Really looking forward to this week!!! @BelfastTradF has just released their full programme which you can check out now!!!! A cracking list of over 370 events!!!! You can check out the events I’ve listed and more on the official Belfast tradfest website #belfasttradfest

Looking forward to a packed week of singing, teaching and listening with @BelfastTradF

We celebrated the end of another very successful year for @BelfastTuras with over 100 people being awarded their Cűpla Focal badge and 30 getting a Fáinne Airgid. Our new classes are now available to book online. Bígí linn. https://t.co/S4llt0cdnb

Brian Rowan to be honoured for his ‘commitment to journalism and peacebuilding’

Check out the initial line up of tutors for our Summer School this year. 💫 🔜 More to be announced soon. 📆 Dates 22-26th July 2024 🎟️ Book your place now on our website. @UlsterUni @ArtsCouncilNI @ourbelfastmusic @CQBelfast

...nasc "fastening, tie, spancel, ring; legal bond", the word that allegedly inspired Tolkien to the terms nazg "ring" & nazgûl "ring wraith" in the Black Language. In order to fulfil metrical requirements, I took the liberty of making the poem longer in lines than the original.

"My townland is part of who I am" - An @UlsterHistory researcher is helping to preserve ancient Irish place names with a new townland "atlas". https://t.co/wRJe4AqQkc

There's no festive feasting yet for this scribe in this 16th- cent. Irish law manuscript! Is fuar Mairt cin dinér a Domnaill .i. ria Nodlaig, 'A dinnerless Tuesday is a cold thing, oh Domhnall, that is, before Christmas' #NotlaicMór British Library, MS Egerton 88, fol. 82v inf.

🌲2️⃣0️⃣🎁 Dublin, RIA MS 23 M 35 19ᵗʰ c. This 147-page paper manuscript was probably written by the Cork-man John Windele (1801–1865), one of the foremost antiquarians of the early 19ᵗʰ century. Windele was one of the first scholars to be involved in the identification… ᚐ

🌲2️⃣1️⃣🎁 Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland MS 50.3.11 1849 This recently discovered notebook, now known as ‘The Minchin Manuscript’, can rightly be called the pinnacle of manuscript ogam: it consists of 66 pages of healing charms and prayers written entirely in this… ᚐ

I was told recently that less than 1% of pupils in the UK leave school with fluency in a second language which they studied at school. However 100% of children in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who are taught through Scottish Gaelic, Welsh or Irish, leave school bilingual.

Copernicus Sentinel imagery of Lough Neagh taken last week. I don't think it's supposed to look like this?

Singers and listeners of traditional song very welcome 🎶🎶