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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Ogham Carving Techniques
By Dr Nora White, OG(H)AM’s Irish Postdoctoral Researcher In 2013-2014, as part of the Ogham in 3D project, a preliminary survey of the carving techniques used for monumental ogham inscriptions in Ireland was carried out in collaboration with a professional sculptor and letter-carver, Séighean Ó Draoi. This blog post presents the findings of an unpublished… Continue reading Ogham Carving Techniques
Literary Attributions in ‘The Book of Ogam’
By Deborah Hayden, OG(H)AM’s Irish Co-Investigator In a previous blog on this site, I introduced some of the cryptic varieties of ogam illustrated in the visually impressive tract known as In Lebor Ogaim (‘The Book of Ogam’), the earliest copy of which is preserved in the fourteenth-century manuscript known as ‘The Book of Ballymote’ (RIA… Continue reading Literary Attributions in ‘The Book of Ogam’
Recording in Devon and Cornwall
By Katherine Forsyth, OG(H)AM’s UK Principal Investigator Last month Megan Kasten, Nora White and myself spent a happy week in south-west England recording ogham inscriptions using photogrammetry (see here for more on this technique). It was fantastic to finally get to see stones I’ve been reading about for years but very sobering to realise it… Continue reading Recording in Devon and Cornwall
Medieval Manuscripts and ScribalStyles: Team OG(H)AM Hosts Artist Thomas Keyes
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 Engagement project Ogham Palaeography+ (OPal+), led by Prof. Katherine Forsyth (University of Glasgow). For one strand… Continue reading Medieval Manuscripts and ScribalStyles: Team OG(H)AM Hosts Artist Thomas Keyes
Ogham in the British Museum
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 early starts were required to complete photography before the doors opened (it takes about two… Continue reading Ogham in the British Museum
The Periods of Ogam Usage
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 article, we distinguish four more or less distinct periods of ogam usage… Continue reading The Periods of Ogam Usage
Oghams and the Roman Epigraphic Habit in late Iron Age and early Medieval Ireland; Guest blog by Karen Murad
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 political developments. Once finished, her goal is to marry her research interests with her background… Continue reading Oghams and the Roman Epigraphic Habit in late Iron Age and early Medieval Ireland; Guest blog by Karen Murad
The Stone Corridor – ogham stones at University College Cork (Part 2)
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 from a single souterrain in the townland of Knockshanawee (Cnoc Seanmhaí, barony of… Continue reading The Stone Corridor – ogham stones at University College Cork (Part 2)
Ogam script and cryptography in the Irish legal manuscript tradition; Guest blog by Dr Chantal Kobel
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 manuscript culture, in particular the extant medieval Irish law manuscripts. In an earlier blog, Deborah… Continue reading Ogam script and cryptography in the Irish legal manuscript tradition; Guest blog by Dr Chantal Kobel