By David Stifter, OG(H)AM’s Irish Principal Investigator This is an abridged excerpt from the article ‘The Donaghmore ogam stone (I-KID-008)’, which will appear in the 2025 volume of the Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society. The formula word MUCOI occurs around 80 times on ogam stones; mostly on stones from Ireland, with only three exceptions… Continue reading The ogam formula word MUCOI
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Ogam, Ogma and Ogmios
By David Stifter, OG(H)AM’s Irish Principal Investigator In an earlier blog post in February 2023, I discussed various etymologies that have been proposed for the word ogam. In this post, I will expand on this matter and look at the connections that the name of the Irish script has with the names of mythological figures… Continue reading Ogam, Ogma and Ogmios
Digging into the Archaeological Context of the Pool Ogham Stone (S-ORK-008)
By Dr Megan Kasten, UK Postdoctoral Researcher In 1984, John Hunter’s excavations at Pool, Orkney, uncovered a slab which bore unmistakeable traces of an ogham inscription. The upright stone, now on display at the Orkney Museum, had been erected in a relatively formal paved structure, in a context which was radiocarbon dated to the 6th… Continue reading Digging into the Archaeological Context of the Pool Ogham Stone (S-ORK-008)
Twelve Coding Challenges for Christmas (Part 2)
By Dr Patricia O’Connor, Irish Postdoctoral Researcher Happy New Year from the OG(H)AM team! Last year, we brought 2024 to a close with the gift of twelve coding challenges for the twelve days of Christmas. Our last blog post focused on six of the twelve challenges for Christmas in descending order and demonstrated how to… Continue reading Twelve Coding Challenges for Christmas (Part 2)
Twelve Coding Challenges for Christmas
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
Exploring Ogham in Alfred the Great Fanfiction: A Fusion of History and Mythology
We are grateful to Martine Mussies for contributing a guest blog this month. Martine Mussies is an artistic researcher and autistic academic, currently pursuing her PhD at Maastricht University (the Netherlands). The reimagining of historical figures in modern literature and fanfiction has become a growing phenomenon, with authors taking creative liberties to reconstruct and recontextualise… Continue reading Exploring Ogham in Alfred the Great Fanfiction: A Fusion of History and Mythology
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
Feather-marks
By Katherine Forsyth, OG(H)AM’s UK Principal Investigator Wikipedia’s otherwise excellent article on ‘ogham’ confronts you with the script’s name twice – first rendered ‘Ogham’ in the latin alphabet and, below it, ’ogam’ spelled out in ogham letters, reading horizontally from left to right (for a discussion of the spellings and capitalization of these words see… Continue reading Feather-marks
A History of Encoding from XML Markup to the TEI and EpiDoc Guidelines
By Dr Patricia O’Connor, Irish Postdoctoral Researcher In previous blog posts, Adrian Doyle discussed the introduction of ogham characters to Unicode, the history and challenges of digital ogham, as well as the future of digital ogham and its potential to facilitate modern usage. One of the principal objectives of Doyle’s blog posts was to introduce… Continue reading A History of Encoding from XML Markup to the TEI and EpiDoc Guidelines
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’