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   Was Ireland a part of Anglo-Irish writing?

   • Anglo-Irish drama and novels were written mostly with an English audience in view; in terms of content, there is often nothing specifically Irish about, for example, the plays and novels of Henry Brooke or the essays and poetry of Goldsmith. Yet Ireland was not absent from Anglo-Irish writing.

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   What languages were written in the Celtic era?

   • The Celtic languages have a rich literary tradition. The earliest specimens of written Celtic are Lepontic inscriptions from the 6th century BC in the Alps. Early Continental inscriptions used Italic and Paleohispanic scripts.

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   When was the Celtic language first used?

   • The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described by classical writers and the Welsh and Breton languages. During the first millennium BC, Celtic languages were spoken across much of Europe and central Anatolia.

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   What does the Irish inscription look like?

   • At first glance, the inscription looks like a series of vertical lines cut into the chocolate-bar-size stone. But these lines are actually an inscription in ogham, an alphabet used to write the early Irish language after the fourth century and Old Irish from the sixth to the ninth centuries.

   Stone with 1,600-year-old Irish inscription found in English garden

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2. www.irishcentral.com › roots › what-oghamWhat is Ogham? A look at the ancient Irish alphabet

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   May 9, 2024 · Ireland's Content Pool. 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 ...

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   2 days ago · Continental Celtic languages are attested almost exclusively through inscriptions and place-names. Insular Celtic languages are attested from the 4th century AD in Ogham inscriptions, though they were clearly being spoken much earlier. Celtic literary tradition begins with Old Irish texts around the 8th century AD.

4. www.livescience.com › archaeology › stone-with-1600Stone with 1,600-year-old Irish inscription found in English ...

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   May 11, 2024 · By Tom Metcalfe. published 11 May 2024. Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D. The stone and its ancient...

5. www.britannica.com › topic › ogham-writingOgham writing | Celtic Language, Ireland & Picts | Britannica

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   May 10, 2024 · ogham writing, alphabetic script dating from the 4th century ad, used for writing the Irish and Pictish languages on stone monuments; according to Irish tradition, it was also used for writing on pieces of wood, but there is no material evidence for this.

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6. www.britannica.com › art › Irish-literatureIrish literature | History, Authors, Books, Characteristics ...

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   May 21, 2024 · After the literatures of Greek and Latin, literature in Irish is the oldest literature in Europe, dating from the 4th or 5th century ce. The presence of a “dual tradition” in Irish writing has been important in shaping and inflecting the material written in English, the language of Ireland’s colonizers.

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7. www.maynoothuniversity.ie › research › spotlightSpotlight on Research | Maynooth University

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   6 days ago · Wreckers and levellers: evicting Ireland's poor during the Great Famine. These reviled figures were involved in the evictions of some 250,000 Irish families during the 1840s and 1850s, writes Dr Ciarán Reilly, Department of History. Friday, 17 May 2024.

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Celtic_languagesCeltic languages - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · The Celtic languages ( / ˈkɛltɪk / KEL-tik) are a group of related languages descended from Proto-Celtic. They form a branch of the Indo-European language family. [1] The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, [2] following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between the Celts described ...