Bibliography
ogham inscriptions
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Stifter, David, Ogam: language, writing, epigraphy, AELAW, 10, Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022.
Schmidt, Sophie, and Florian Thiery, “SPARQLing ogham stones: new options for analyzing analog editions by digitization in Wikidata”, in: Tara Andrews, Franziska Diehr, Thomas Efer, Andreas Kuczera, and Joris van Zundert (eds), Graph technologies in the humanities: proceedings 2020 (GRAPH 2020), Vienna, Austria, February 21-22, 2020, Online: CEUR-WS, 2022. 211–244. URL: <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3110/paper11.pdf>
Forsyth, Katherine, Deborah Hayden, Megan Kasten, David Stifter, and Nora White, OG[H]AM: harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st, Online: University of Glasgow, 2021–present. URL: <https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk>
Website and blog for the research project OG[H]AM: harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st century (2021–2024). The team includes Katherine Forsyth and David Stifter (principal investigators), Deborah Hayden (co-investigator), Nora White and Megan Kasten (post-doctoral researchers), Luca Guarienti (digital officer) and Clara Scholz (student intern). The website features blogs by team members as well as guest blogs by other researchers, including Karen Murad and Chantal Kobel.
Rodway, Simon, “The ogham inscriptions of Scotland and Brittonic Pictish”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 21 (2020): 173–234.
abstract:
In this paper, I examine the evidence brought forward by Katherine Forsyth in support of the hypothesis that the 'Pictish' ogham inscriptions of Scotland are linguistically Celtic. Having examined the five most promising inscriptions minutely, I conclude that they are in fact not Celtic, and that 'Celtic-looking' sequences in them are due to coincidence. Thus, the language of this corpus of inscriptions remains unknown.
Poppe, Erich, “Writing systems and cultural identity: ogam in medieval and early modern Ireland”, Language and History 61:1–2 (2018): 23–38.
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Ogam is a writing system invented for the Irish language and originally used as a monument script in inscriptions on stone in Ireland and western Britain between the fifth (or late fourth) and the seventh centuries. Even though it was no longer used as a means of communication after the eighth century, it became an emblem of linguistic and cultural identity for medieval and early modern Irish scholars and poets because of its distinctive form, structure and letter names. The paper describes the characteristics of ogam as a script system and traces its place in medieval learned traditions about the origin and status of the Irish language and its alphabet, its use as a terminological tool for descriptions of Irish grammar and phonology, and its contribution to the construction of cultural memory and identity.
White, Nora, “Ogham stones from a souterrain in Rathkenny, County Kerry”, Celtica 28 (2016): 208–216.
White, Nora, “Ogham in 3D: digitizing a unique aspect of Ireland’s cultural heritage”, Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies 3 (2015). URL: <http://breac.nd.edu/articles/61526-ogham-in-3d-digitizing-a-unique-aspect-of-irelands-cultural-heritage>
White, Nora [principal investigator], Ogham in 3D Project, Online: School of Celtic Studies, DIAS, 2013–present. URL: <https://ogham.celt.dias.ie>
Moffat, Kaaren, “The ‘grammar of legibility’: word separation in ogam inscriptions”, Peritia 22–23 (2011-2012, 2013): 281–294.
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The principles of Saenger and Parkes on the analysis of word spacing in Insular manuscripts are here applied to the Irish ogam corpus. Differences in the adoption of aerated text between that corpus and the Anglo-Saxon epigraphic corpus are examined and the reasons for these differences are explored. Finally, the dating of the adoption of aerated text in both Insular manuscripts and the ogam corpus is compared.
Edwards, Nancy, A corpus of early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales, vol. 3: North Wales, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013.
Eogan, George, and Fionnbarr Moore, “A fragment of an Iron-Age quern and an ogham stone”, Peritia 20 (2008): 297–314.
Edwards, Nancy, A corpus of early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales, vol. 2: South-West Wales, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
Forsyth, Katherine, “An Ogham-inscribed plaque from Bornais, South Uist”, in: Beverley Ballin Smith, Simon Taylor, and Gareth Williams (eds), West over sea: studies in Scandinavian sea-borne expansion and settlement before 1300: a Festschrift in honour of Dr. Barbara E. Crawford, 31, Leiden: Brill, 2007. 461–477.
Redknap, Mark, and John M. Lewis, A corpus of early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales, vol. 1: South-East Wales and the English border, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
Sims-Williams, Patrick, “Some problems in deciphering the early Irish Ogam alphabet”, in: Patrick Sims-Williams (ed.), Studies on Celtic languages before the year 1000, Aberystwyth: CMCS Publications, 2007. 79–120.
Charles-Edwards, Gifford, “The palaeography of the inscriptions”, in: Mark Redknap, and John M. Lewis, A corpus of early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales, vol. 1: South-East Wales and the English border, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007. 77–87.
Swift, Catherine, “Welsh ogams from an Irish perspective”, in: Karen Jankulak, and Jonathan M. Wooding (eds), Ireland and Wales in the Middle Ages, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 62–79.
Ní Chatháin, Próinséas, “MAQQI-TRENI: Oghams in Wales and an Irish placename, Ros Mhic Treoin”, in: Marion Meek (ed.), The modern traveller to our past: Festschrift in honour of Ann Hamlin, DPK, 2006. 84–87.
Swift, Catherine, “Ogam stones in Sligo and their context”, in: Martin A. Timoney (ed.), A celebration of Sligo: first essays for Sligo Field Club, Carrick-on-the-Shannon: Sligo Field Club, 2002. 127–139.
Edwards, Nancy, “Early-medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture in Wales: context and function”, Journal of Medieval Archaeology 45:1 (2001): 15–39.
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Antiquaria, archaeological, topographical and place-name evidence may be used to piece together the original contexts of a significant number of early-medieval inscribed and sculptured stones in Wales and throw valuable light on their functions and on the origins and development of church sites. The differing locations of early inscribed stones are examined, including associations with prehistoric and Roman monuments as well as with cemeteries and churches, and regional differences are noted. It is suggested that, although their primary function was commemorative, some monuments also acted as symbols of landowning by secular elites. Cross-decorated stones originating c. A.D. 600 mark a change to largely anonymous grave-markers mainly associated with cemeteries and local churches, while some others are indicative of landowning by the church. Crosses and cross-slabs of the 9th to 11th centuries are clustered in and around major monasteries and regional churches. Some record the donation of land to the church while the Pillar of Eliseg functioned as a symbol of secular entitlement to land.
Higgitt, John, Katherine Forsyth, and David N. Parsons (eds), Roman, runes and ogham: medieval inscriptions in the Insular world and on the Continent, Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001.
Harvey, Anthony, “Problems in dating the origin of the Ogham script”, in: John Higgitt, Katherine Forsyth, and David N. Parsons (eds), Roman, runes and ogham: medieval inscriptions in the Insular world and on the Continent, Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001. 37–50.
Gippert, Jost, “A new edition of the Ogham inscriptions: the advantages and limitations of computers”, in: John Higgitt, Katherine Forsyth, and David N. Parsons (eds), Roman, runes and ogham: medieval inscriptions in the Insular world and on the Continent, Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2001. 66–78.
Devane, Caitríona, “An ogam-inscribed stone in Ballintaggart”, Peritia 15 (2001): 369–372.
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A report on an unrecorded ogam inscription at Ballintaggart, parish of Garfinny, near Dingle, Co Kerry, together with a review of nineteenth-century antiquarian observations on the site and its ogam stones. There is evidence that this is an early medieval ecclesiastical site.
Fulford, Michael, Mark Handley, and Amanda Clarke, “An early date for Ogham: the Silchester ogham stone rehabilitated”, Medieval Archaeology 44 (2000): 1–23.
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In the light of dating evidence recovered from new excavation in and around the original findspot, the context, date and provenance of the baluster column with an inscription in ogham, which was recovered in 1893 during the excavations of the Roman town at Silchester, Hampshire, are reconsidered.
Fulford, Michael, and Amanda Clarke, “Silchester and the end of Roman towns”, Current Archaeology 161 (1999): 176–180.
Swift, Catherine, Ogam stones and the earliest Irish Christians, Maynooth Monographs, Series Minor, 2, Maynooth: Department of Old Irish, National University of Ireland, 1997.
Forsyth, Katherine, “The ogham-inscribed spindle-whorl from Buckquoy: evidence for the Irish language in pre-Viking Orkney?”, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 125 (1995): 677–696.
Ziegler, Sabine, Die Sprache der altirischen Ogam-Inschriften, Historische Sprachforschung, 36, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994.
Sims-Williams, Patrick, “Some problems in deciphering the early Irish Ogam alphabet”, Transactions of the Philological Society 91 (1993, 1993): 133–180.
Warner, R. B., “The Drumconwell Ogham and its implications”, Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group 8 (1991): 43–50.
Mahon, William, “Glasraige, Tóecraige, and Araid: evidence from Ogam”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 8 (1988): 11–30.
Harvey, Anthony, “Early literacy in Ireland: the evidence from ogam”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 14 (Winter, 1987): 1–15.
McManus, Damian, “Ogam: archaizing, orthography and the authenticity of the manuscript key to the alphabet”, Ériu 37 (1986): 9–31.
Fulford, Michael, and Bruce Selwood, “The Silchester ogham stone: a re-consideration”, Antiquity 54:211 (July, 1980): 95–99.
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A recent re-examination of the architectural and other sculpted stone fragments from Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) drew attention to the small sandstone column on which is scored an ogham inscription. The commonest materials used for columns, capitals and ornamental sculpture at Silchester are the fine Jurassic limestones of Bath or Portland type. A very few pieces are carved intertiary sandstones or imported marble. This is the pattern for architectural masonry throughout southern England in the Roman period; limestone predominates and sandstone, usually greensand, is rare. On visual examination the particular stone with the ogham appears to be different from that of the other architectural fragments in the Silchester collection. It should also be noted that no similar material has so far been identified in the city wall or amongst any of the other ordinary building materials recovered from the Roman town. On the basis of visual examination alone it has been suggested that the stone originated from the calcareous grit of the Oxfordshire Corallian (Boon 1959, 87), but doubts about this identification led us to a more searching investigation to ascertain the character and source of the stone. Before introducing these analyses and their results it will be useful to summarize our present knowledge of the Silchester ogham. In this way the implications of the new results can be more satisfactorily appreciated.
Raftery, Barry, “A late ogham inscription from Co. Tipperary”, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 99 (1969): 161–164.
Mac White, Eóin, “Contributions to a study of ogam memorial stones”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 28 (1960–1961): 294–308.
Jackson, Kenneth H., “Notes on the Ogam inscriptions of southern Britain”, in: Cyril Fox, and Bruce Dickins (eds), The early cultures of north-west Europe: H. M. Chadwick memorial studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. 197–214.
Macalister, R. A. S., Corpus inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum [CIIC], 2 vols, vol. 1, Dublin: Stationery Office, 1945.
Irishmanuscripts.ie – PDF: <link>
Introduction; The Ogham and analogous inscriptions of Ireland [Province of Connaught; Leinster; Munster; Ulster]; The Ogham and analogous inscriptions of Wales, England, The Isle of Man Scotland; Index locorum; Index verborum.
Plummer, Charles, “On the meaning of ogam stones”, Revue Celtique 40 (1923): 387–390.
Journal volume: Internet Archive: <link>
Macalister, R. A. S., “Notes on some Ogham inscriptions, including two recently discovered”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 34 C (1919): 400–404.
Internet Archive – offprint: <link>
Verworn, Max, “Die angeblichen ‘Runensteine’ von Biere. Gefälschte Ogham-Inschriften”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 11 (1917): 305–307.
Internet Archive: <link>
Macalister, R. A. S., “On some County Cork Ogham stones in English museums”, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th series, 36:2 (1906): 166–178.
Internet Archive: <link>
Ferguson, Samuel, Ogham inscriptions in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1887.
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Rhŷs, John, Lectures on Welsh philology, London: Trübner & Co, 1877.
Contents: Preface -- Lecture I. Introductory sketch or glottology - Grimm’s law - Classification of the Celtic languages -- Lecture II. Welsh consonants -- Lecture III. Welsh vowels -- Lecture IV. A sketch of the history of the Welsh language -- Lecture V. History of the Welsh language -- Lecture VI. Ogam and Ogmic inscriptions -- Lecture VII. An attempt to reconstruct the history of the Ogmic alphabet -- Appendix A. Our early inscriptions -- Appendix B. Maccu, Mocoi, Maqvi, Macwy -- Appendix C. Some Welsh names of metals and articles made of metal -- Additions and corrections -- Index.
