By Dr Patricia O’Connor, Irish Postdoctoral Researcher It’s that time of the year when many people are decorating their homes and Christmas trees, and, with that fun and festive fact in mind, it might be an opportune time to note that some ogham stones also feature fascinating decorative elements. But how do you encode these… Continue reading Twelve Coding Challenges for Christmas
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In Lebor Ogaim, ‘The Book of Ogam’
By Deborah Hayden, OG(H)AM’s Co-Investigator In my last blog post on this site I discussed some of the earliest attestations of manuscript ogam, as well as the relationship between this script and ideas about alphabets that are expressed in the earliest grammar of the Irish language, Auraicept na nÉces (‘The Scholars’ Primer’). This post picks up… Continue reading In Lebor Ogaim, ‘The Book of Ogam’