Colleen Berry Conway is the owner of Ogham Art alongside her husband Chris. She takes us through the history of the ancient Irish alphabet. This article is proudly presented alongside the Irish ...

Modern Celtic languages – including Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Breton and Cornish – all derive from these earlier tongues, and similarities remain visible. Dr Rodway, senior lecturer in ...

Irish and Scottish academics have turned to digital and 3D technologies to protect and preserve the ancient Celtic Ogham writing system, which has existed for more than 1,500 years. Ogham ...

Slashes and strokes anchored by one central line; it’s an alphabet with an origin that stretches back to the 4th century A.D. and that some believe began as a secret way for the Celts to communicate.

Linguists at Aberystwyth University have launched the first comprehensive dictionary to capture every known word of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland between 325 BC and AD 500. The ...

From the Aran Islands to Zozimus (a 19th-century street poet), Pittman and McLennan (Scottish Alphabet) roll through centuries of Irish history and legend in this spirited and ambitious abecedary. The ...

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Investigations show the stone is inscribed with a message in ogham, an Irish alphabet used from the fourth century A.D. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...