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The Future of Digital Ogam: Potential Updates to the Unicode Ogham Block to Facilitate Modern Usage
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/04/24/the-future-of-digital-ogam-potential-updates-to-the-unicode-ogham-block-to-facilitate-modern-usage/
Published: April 24, 2024 15:40
We are grateful to Adrian Doyle for contributing another insightful guest blog this month. He is the creator of the Würzburg Irish Glosses website (wurzburg.ie) and is currently completing a PhD researching Natural Language Processing techniques for Old…
Medieval Manuscripts and ScribalStyles:Â Team OG(H)AM Hosts Artist Thomas Keyes
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/03/22/medieval-manuscripts-and-scribalstyles-team-ogham-hosts-artist-thomas-keyes/
Published: March 22, 2024 11:56
By Deborah Hayden and David Stifter, OG(H)AM’s Irish Co-Investigator and Irish Principal Investigator In autumn 2023, the OG(H)AM team was awarded a major follow-on funding grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for the year-long Impact and…
The History of Digital Ogam: How it came to be, and the challenges it faced along the way; Guest blog by Adrian Doyle
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/02/21/the-history-of-digital-ogam-how-it-came-to-be-and-the-challenges-it-faced-along-the-way-guest-blog-by-adrian-doyle/
Published: February 21, 2024 09:14
We are grateful to Adrian Doyle for contributing a guest blog this month. He is the creator of the Würzburg Irish Glosses website (wurzburg.ie) and is currently completing a PhD researching Natural Language Processing techniques for Old Irish at the…
Ogham in the British Museum
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/01/24/ogham-in-the-british-museum/
Published: January 24, 2024 11:07
By Katherine Forsyth, OG(H)AM’s UK Principal Investigator Christmas came a little early last month when we were welcomed behind the scenes at the British Museum to record ogham-inscribed objects in its collection. Two are on public display and so some…
The Periods of Ogam Usage
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/12/20/the-periods-of-ogam-usage/
Published: December 20, 2023 16:19
By David Stifter, Katherine Forsyth, Deborah Hayden, Nora White This is a revised excerpt from Stifter, White & Forsyth (2024: 218–221), which will appear in a volume edited by Alex Mullen and George Woudhuysen on 28 December this year (link here). In this…
Digital Palaeography between Manuscripts and Epigraphy Workshop
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/12/11/digital-palaeography-between-manuscripts-and-epigraphy-workshop/
Published: December 11, 2023 16:22
By Nora White, Corinna Salomon, Patricia O Connor and Megan Kasten On 15 November, 2023, the ‘Digital Palaeography between Manuscripts and Epigraphy’ workshop took place at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The aim of this hybrid workshop was to bring…
Oghams and the Roman Epigraphic Habit in late Iron Age and early Medieval Ireland; Guest blog by Karen Murad
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/11/03/oghams-and-the-roman-epigraphic-habit-in-late-iron-age-and-early-medieval-ireland-guest-blog-by-karen-murad/
Published: November 3, 2023 09:59
We are grateful to Karen Murad for contributing a guest blog this month. She is currently working towards her PhD at University College Dublin, analyzing Ireland’s relationship with the Roman Empire and its impact on Ireland’s early Medieval social and…
The Stone Corridor – ogham stones at University College Cork (Part 2)
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/09/12/the-stone-corridor-ogham-stones-at-university-college-cork-part-2/
Published: September 12, 2023 11:07
By Dr Nora White, OG(H)AM’s Irish Postdoctoral Researcher In Part 1 of this blog post, I presented the first twelve ogham stones in the collection: six collected in the early 19th century (originally housed in the Royal Cork Institution) and another six…
Ogam script and cryptography in the Irish legal manuscript tradition; Guest blog by Dr Chantal Kobel
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/08/22/ogam-script-and-cryptography-in-the-irish-legal-manuscript-tradition-guest-blog-by-dr-chantal-kobel/
Published: August 22, 2023 11:27
We are grateful to Dr Chantal Kobel for contributing a guest blog this month. She is a Bergin Fellow in the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Her main research interests centre on medieval Irish language, literature and…
R. A. S. Macalister – A Life
https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2023/07/06/r-a-s-macalister-a-life/
Published: July 6, 2023 15:32
By Katherine Forsyth, OG(H)AM’s UK Principal Investigator Hurrah! It’s International Day of Ogham! In celebrating Ogham’s special day, we also mark the 153rd anniversary of the birth of the founding father of modern ogham studies, R. A. S. Macalister—born…