OG(H)AM project releases film about the digital humanities research on the ancient writing script
Published: 18 September 2024
Academics from Ireland and Scotland have released a full length 20-minute information film about the ancient Celtic ogham writing script.
Academics from Ireland and Scotland have released a full length 20-minute information film about the ancient Celtic ogham writing script.
The film has been created by the OG(H)AM project, a collaborative UK-Ireland Digital Humanities project at the Universities of Glasgow and Maynooth. The film features Glasgow researchers Professor Katherine Forsyth and Dr Megan Kasten.
Ogham was invented over 1500 years ago and is found in the Republic of Ireland and across the four nations of Britain, and the Isle of Man. The writing script is an alphabet that appears on monumental inscriptions and occasionally portable objects dating from the 4th century AD onwards, and in a handful of manuscripts dating from the 9th century onwards.
The majority of these are from Ireland, but nearly a third are found across England, Wales, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. These inscriptions are the oldest written records in the language ancestral to Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council-Irish Research Council project is entitled: OG(H)AM: Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st. The project team have harnessed cutting-edge digital and 3D technologies to protect the inscriptions and transform our understanding of ogham.
The film gives an introduction to the og(h)am script and inscriptions, to their digitisation by the project team and to og(h)am in manuscripts. It was created by members of the OG(H)AM project at the University of Glasgow and Maynooth University and Daniel Bălteanu.
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First published: 18 September 2024
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