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21ˢᵗ c.

Recent years have brought adaptations and reconceptualisations of the ogam script in the framework of modern communication technology.
Úrogham (© C. Ryan Moniz; ) is an aesthetically stunning attempt to create what…
ᚐ omniglot.com/conscripts/uro…




…ogam might have turned into if medieval monks had used it as a cursive script.
Nua-Ogham (© Seangabhar Kyle; ) is only superficially similar to traditional ogam. It is a mathematical exercise aimed at designing an intuitive writing system for Modern…
ᚑ github.com/Seangabhar/Nua…

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Dublin, RIA MS 23 K 3, p. 95
Early 19ᵗʰ c. (1821–5)

Written by Seaghan Ua Hethir (John Hehir) in Clare & Tipperary, this manuscript contains a miscellany of Irish verse & its English translation, and Fenian texts. In late 1824, the scribe added four lines of ogam…
ᚐ …on page 95 – evidently four lines of verse, perhaps continuing the preceding poem by Tomás Ó Gríghfo (= Gríobhtha), entitled ‘Ar Chlammpur’. The two lines in Gaelic script on the top are part of its ceangal (‘conclusion, envoy’). The rest of the page has been left blank.
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Roma, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana MS Reg. Lat. 1308, fol. 62v
12ᵗʰ c.?

This 10ᵗʰ-century manuscript of Italian origin, which contains a commentary on the Latin translation of Plato’s Timaeus by the 4ᵗʰ-century philosopher Calcidius, includes on the last page…
ᚐ …ogam among a series of alphabets that were probably added in the 12ᵗʰ century. The ogam symbols consist of the standard 20-character alphabet with transcriptions of each letter, along with a single supplementary character (forfid) ᚗ called P; we would rather identify it…
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St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek MS 11, p. 482, l. 10
c. 780

Ogam was originally designed for Primitive Irish, the language spoken circa in the 4ᵗʰ‒6ᵗʰ centuries. Since then it has also been used for Old Irish and younger varieties of Gaelic, Pictish and English.
ᚐ A gloss in an 8ᵗʰ-century St Gall manuscript, in a curious form of writing, uses ogam for an unexpected language. It is a dry-point gloss, written without ink, but only scratched with the tip of the pen. It is invisible on images taken with direct, full illumination and…
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V
“5”
I-OFF-001 (CIIC –)

Let’s start small. The Ballinderry die bears the shortest known ogam inscription, just a single letter. It was discovered 1933 during excavations at Ballinderry Crannóg 2 in Co. Offaly. It is a bone die, dated 8th–10th centuries.
ᚐ Because of its oblong shape, it is only inscribed on four sides. It does not contain numbers 1 and 2. Numbers 3, 4, 6 are represented by dots. 5 is spelt out in a clever script-transcending pun: the ogam letter ᚃ Fern is used as the equivalent of Latin V, which has…
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🔔🎄Advent Alert!🎄🔔

Tomorrow is the day!
Like in 2021, in this year’s Félire corgais gaimrid isint Ṡengoídilc “Old Irish Advent Calendar” on Twitter I will showcase the research of the project #OG_H_AM, a collaboration between @morantango and @3dgroovanstones in...
ᚐ …@UofGlasgow, and @dhaydenceltic, @ndefaoite & myself at @maynoothuni, funded by @irishresearch @ahrcpress.
This year’s theme is the collection of ogam inscriptions in the National Museum of Ireland (also topic of a planned book of ours). @nmireland houses or oversees 57…
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Ogura Hyakunin Isshu 97

Fujiwara no Sadaie a.k.a. Fujiwara no Teika a.k.a. Acting Middle Councellor Sadaie (1162–26.9.1241)

For the one who isn’t coming,
at Matsuo Bay
in the evening calm,
while burning seaweed salt,
I am smoldering.

/1 Gon Chūnagon Sadaie (Fujiwara no Teika)

Konu hito o
Matsuho no ura no
Yūnagi ni
Yaku ya moshio no
Mi mo kogare tsutsu

権中納言定家 (藤原定家)

こぬ人を
まつほの浦の
夕なぎに
やくやもしほの
身もこがれつつ

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It is too early for taking final stock of the work in @ChronHib in the past almost 6 years. There are still many loose ends. We will be tying up some of them in the coming weeks, but other strands will probably occupy me for the years to come.
Some very rough figures: We organised 4 workshops/conferences on various aspects of the corpus-based study of medieval languages. The volume "Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages. Corpus-Based Approaches" (open access: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…), edited by Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu...

This is a very special day.
After 5⅔ years, 68 months, 2069 days, this is the officially last day of my @ERC_Research funded project "Chronologicon Hibernicum –
A Probabilistic Chronological Framework for Dating Early Irish Language Developments and Literature" at @MaynoothUni. Thanks to ERC & the fantastic support by @MU_Research & the HEA Covid Relief Fund, it has been possible to extend the project until now, 8 months over its original end date. A strange way to end like this - due to the predicament we're all in, I haven't met the @chronHib team...