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Colleen Berry Conway runs Ogham Art with her husband Chris and she takes us through the history of the ancient Irish alphabet. IrishCentral has partnered with Ogham Art to give our readers a ...
Traces of Ogham can still be found all across Ireland. The ancient script of Ogham, sometimes known now as the 'Celtic Tree Alphabet,' originally contained 20 letters grouped into four groups of five.
‘Ogham’ is the earliest written form of primitive Irish and the oldest of the Gaelic languages and an event coming to Quinnipiac will teach you all about it!
The ogham alphabet was used to write the Irish language in the early medieval period, often in inscriptions on stones. (Image credit: The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum) Irish script.
The Ogham art class will be lead by Nancy Lewis, an artist and art teacher at Liberty High School. You’ll learn a bit about the history of the Ogham alphabet.
The ogham writing system uses a series of one to five lines and notches (for vowels) relative to a stemline, generally the natural angle or edge of the stone, reading vertically up one side, ...
While weeding his garden, a man in England stumbled across a stone inscribed with a 1,600-year-old message written in a rare Irish alphabet. Its discovery was quite a surprise, especially since ...
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