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1. 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 ...

2. 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

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   How old is an Irish ogham stone?

   • The stone is about the size of a chocolate bar and is inscribed with a message in the Irish ogham alphabet thought to be about 1,600 years old. (Image credit: Birmingham Museums Trust) Geography teacher Graham Senior found the stone while he was weeding a flowerbed in his garden in Coventry during the COVID lockdown in 2020.

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

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   Is Ogham still a 'Celtic Tree Alphabet'?

   • 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. Five more letters were later added creating a fifth group. Each of these groups was named after its first letter.

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   How do you write an ogham inscription?

   • The lines of the inscription are cut into three of the corners between the stone's faces. This was a common way of writing ogham before the introduction of vellum (scraped calfskin), parchment (scraped sheepskin) and paper. Ogham has some similarities to Norse runes, which also consist of straight lines.

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

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   Why are Ogham inscriptions important?

   • The inscriptions in ogham are very short, usually consisting of a name and patronymic in the genitive case; they are of linguistic interest because they show an earlier state of the Irish language than can be attested by any other source and probably date from the 4th century ad.

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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 · A man in England weeding his garden has made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery: a stone inscribed with a 1,600-year-old message in a rare Irish alphabet. At first glance, the inscription looks like a ...

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

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   2 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.

6. allthatsinteresting.com › ogham-script-stoneEnglish Man Finds Stone With Ancient Ogham Script In His Garden

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   May 10, 2024 · Ogham was an alphabet used primarily to write the Archaic Irish language between the fourth and sixth centuries, and then later employed for writing Old Irish from the sixth to ninth centuries. Ogham was the first written form of the Irish language and examples of it can typically be found on carved stones across Ireland, Wales, and western ...

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7. www.artnews.com › art-news › newsStone with Ancient Writing Discovered in England by Geography ...

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   May 8, 2024 · A 1,600-year-old rock inscribed with early Irish writing was found by a teacher at his home in Coventry, England.The rare artifact offers insight into earlier forms of the Irish language.

8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_Irish-languageList of Irish-language given names - Wikipedia

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   5 days ago · Some Irish-language names derive from English names, e.g. Éamonn from Edmund. Some Irish-language names have English equivalents, both deriving from a common source, e.g Irish Máire (anglicised Maura ), Máirín ( Máire + - ín "a diminutive suffix"; anglicised Maureen) and English Mary all derive from French: Marie, which ultimately derives ...