Media

Video

An introduction to the project featuring members of the team (4.11 minutes).

Prof Katherine Forsyth presenting the project at the 11 October 2022 event co-organised by the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and the Irish Humanities Alliance (IHA) (from timestamps 2:33:25-2:40:51).

Podcast

‘Ogham: A Forgotten Medieval Alphabet’. Gone Medieval podcast. Katherine Forsyth and Nora White in conversation with Dr Cat Jarman (29 minutes – first broadcast 11 October 2022).

Since some of the OG(H)AM team will be heading Stateside in early March to share our findings with colleagues in Boston, it seems timely to feature an Ogam of the Month with a US connection. The manuscript now known as ‘Dunnington 1’, bequeathed to the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in 2017 by the late Professor Edgar Slotkin of the University of Cincinnati, was one of two Irish manuscripts purchased by Mr Michael Dunnington in Lexington, Kentucky during the early 1980s. At the end of the manuscript, some ogam script was written alongside several doodles. The first ten symbols should probably be transcribed as PATTMULLER. These are followed by an eleventh symbol of doubtful value, shaped a little bit like a lozenge. The significance of this little scrap of ogam script is uncertain: could it be the name of someone once associated with or in possession of the manuscript, or is it merely more doodling on the part of the scribe?