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.

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.

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 ...

Folklorist Norman (Faerie Stones) delivers a detailed manual on how to use the druidic Ogham alphabet to gain insight into the future.She discusses the alphabet’s first appearance on stones in ...

Ogham thoughts – Frank McNally on a new artwork, an old alphabet, and the longest word in Irish. The scribes of medieval Ireland, unlike Sinatra, never found their regrets too few to mention.

1,500-year-old carved stone from the 'Painted People' in Scotland possibly reveals a bull, pelicans and an ancient alphabet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Ogham is highly unusual among world writing systems, consisting solely of parallel lines in groups of 1-5. The stones provide insight into the Irish language before the use of the Latin insular ...