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 ...
(WTNH)– We’re digging deep into Irish history. ‘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 ...
(WTNH)–Do you know what Ogham is? It’s the oldest Gaelic language, spoken and written between the 2nd and 6th Centuries. Keeping it alive for others to learn about is Colleen Berry Conway. She owns a ...
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.
The longest word in modern Irish, I’m told – or at least the longest you might meet in the wild, as opposed to one created in laboratory conditions – is grianghrafadóireachta, an adjective meaning “of ...
The stone's Ogham script is believed to have been carved sometime between the 4th and 6th Century The discovery of small stone carved with an early form of Celtic script has caused excitement among ...
Mysterious and otherworldly as they are, it is questionable whether the marks on Ogham stones can be described as literature. Many of them seem to be monumental inscriptions remembering the dead.
Exclusive: Sandstone rock featuring language markings created 1,600 years ago to go on display at museum A geography teacher was tidying his overgrown garden at his home in Coventry when he stumbled ...