Spent a very enjoyable, informative and productive day yesterday experimenting with letter-carving under the superb guidance of stone sculptor and letter-carver Aileen Anne Brannigan. On the EMISoS project, we are analysing the palaeography of early medieval Irish inscriptions on stone monuments but

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates (online discussion led by Gabriel Bodard and @carolinebarron.bsky.social), Friday 20th February 2026 at 14:00–15:30 GMT ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Many thanks to everyone in Oslo for a fantastic seminar and a great opportunity to meet others working on similar epigraphic material, to discuss challenges, share methods and plan collaborations @kristelzilmer.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie

Tá forbairt á déanamh againn ar Gharraí na Gaeilge chun cultúr Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, idir sean agus nua, a chur in iúl. Curach a léiríonn cultúr beo na Gaeltachta agus na Nua-Ghaeilge agus cloch oghaim a léiríonn traidisún ársa na Sean-Ghaeilge. Féach anseo: buff.ly/UdU2kRa

🌲1️⃣5️⃣🎁 Latinate Inscriptions Following her 2006 PhD in Maynooth (an edition of the tales about Mongán mac Fíachnai), Dr Nora White became one of the leading scholar in Ireland for ogam inscriptions. She was the main person behind the development of the Ogham in 3D website (ogham.celt.dias.ie/)... 📖

🌲1️⃣3️⃣🎁 OG(H)AM The next major international project, short title OG(H)AM, resulted directly from the Digital Gaelic project, again jointly funded by @ukri.org and the IRC (@researchireland.ie). Starting from a collaboration between Dr Nora White (Maynooth) and Prof Katherine Forsyth (Glasgow),… 📖

Looking forward to teaching an #EpiDoc workshop with @ndefaoite.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social & @dralexa.bsky.social all this week. A wonderful array of expertise for a multidisciplinary workshop!

@ndefaoite.bsky.social on encoding ogham inscriptions across Ireland and Britain for the #OG_H_AM project by @maynoothuniversity.ie and @glasgow.ac.uk for the Editing Inscriptions with #EpiDoc seminar.

And this afternoon, a seminar of the Textual Editing Lab with @ndefaoite.bsky.social and @dralexa.bsky.social talking about their #EpiDoc projects on Oh[g]am/Irish epigraphy and Roman emperor worship respectively. If you can be here, you really should! www.eventbrite.com/e/editing-in...

Lots of #TEIFriday planning going on today. Some highlights: We're going to hold an #EpiDoc training workshop in Glasgow this December! Details and signup to follow very soon. A great group of people involved @ndefaoite.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social @dralexa.bsky.social 💯

*Widame (Proto-Celtic “we found out”), a conference for postgraduate scholars in Celtic Studies, will take place November 7th & 8th 2025 in 1.33 IONTAS in @maynoothuniversity.ie. Conference schedule and registration is available here: buff.ly/b3GjydF Register by the 10th of October 2025.

#TEIFriday Today's TEI-related musing brought by EpiDoc Guidelines local practice documentation and concordance (via the ogham.glasgow.ac.uk project). What if a letter is incomplete and could therefore be read as any of several potential letters?

www.con-telegraph.ie/2025/09/12/o... @ndefaoite.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

Yesterday was the big day: The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website. /1

My book Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland is finally out, and it’s a beaut. In bookshops tomorrow but you can order online here - only €45! First interdisciplinary study of early Irish kingship, focusing on landscape/spatial dimensions of rule: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l...

Delighted to be taking part in #HeritageWeek2025 this year with the launch of our publication 'Ogham Stones of County Mayo' by Mayo County Council Heritage Office on Wednesday evening! @heritagecouncil.ie @mayocountycouncil.bsky.social

This is shockingly sad news. Among the countless incredible achievements and qualities of Andrew West 魏安 was also his foundational and inspirational contribution to the digitisation of ogam. Scríbthar a ainm n-ogaim!

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

Located next to a small holy well, not far from Kilmovee in County Mayo, this ogham stone may be one of the earliest recorded in Ireland based on its inscription. When translated, it reads: ALATTOS MAQI BR[--. (see the excellent Oghamin3D ogham.celt.dias.ie/stone.php?la...) #Ireland #Archaeology

Friends & colleagues, the amazing OG(H)AM project, a collaboration between Dept. of Celtic & Gaelic @uofglasgow.bsky.social & Dept. of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social is slowly coming to an end. With a smile & a tear, I present the final instalment...

Thank you so much to @padraicmoran.bsky.social for this thought-provoking keynote lecture at our recent Digital Epigraphy workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie (funded by @researchireland.ie) and now also a blog post so that many more can benefit from Pádraic's valuable insights into this important topic👏

#EpigraphyTuesday The Donaghmore Ogham Stone, 3D printed replica in the early Irish department at Maynooth University. (#EpiDoc workshop)

What a fantastic few days of digital epigraphy #EpiDoc @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie ! Huge thanks to to all our participants, trainers @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social & collaborator Christine Morris @tcdclassics.bsky.social ...

⏰️ Final keynote of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social 🗣 Pádraic Moran @padraicmoran.bsky.social (University of Galway @uniofgalway.bsky.social) 📜 Designing Sustainable Digital Editions 💻 Slides: pmoran.ie/maynooth2025.pdf

It's the final morning of our Digital Epigraphy workshop, and @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social is leading us through how to encode placenames, people and organisations using Epidoc standards. @ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social introducing the Digital Epigraphy Workshop participants @maynoothuniversity.ie to #EpiDoc. @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @teiconsortium.bsky.social #epigraphy #digitalhumanities

@palaeofuturist.bsky.social guiding Digital Epigraphy Workshop participants through encoding the object description of the Donaghmore ogham stone in #EpiDoc #XML format. @researchireland.ie @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Day 2 of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop in @maynoothuniversity.ie @muahi.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social. The facilitators @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and the crowd of students. Funded by @researchireland.ie... /1

Great session with @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social at the Digital Epigraphy workshop @tcddublin.bsky.social participants have successfully exported #RTI images using Relight and have created interactable files that can be manipulated in #RTI Viewer. @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Time to learn #RTI, an imaging technique that creates an interactable file in which you can change the lighting position to create a different angle of raking light to emphasise features of an inscribed object. @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

📢Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social introducing the first keynote speaker for the Digital Epigraphy Workshop @tcddublin.bsky.social: 🗣Prof. Charlotte Roueché (University of London) 📜 Words, Places & Objects @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

Time for the practical session of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop! Sincere thanks to Christine Morris @tcddublin.bsky.social for arranging a great selection of inscribed objects. #photogrammetry @ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social

Day 1 of the Digital Epigraphy Workshop is underway at the wonderful Weingreen Museum @tcddublin.bsky.social with @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social introducing us to #Photogrammetry for inscribed artifacts @researchireland.ie @ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social

📢 An exciting workshop happening next week #medievalsky @teiconsortium.bsky.social‼️ 📷💻Digital Epigraphy Workshop: Hands-on training in #Photogrammetry #RTI and #EpiDoc 📅 May 26-28, 2025 🏫 @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie 📲Programme: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

Last chance to sign up for this free, hands-on, introductory workshop utilising digital tools to record ancient & medieval inscriptions - happening next Monday to Wednesday! @tcddublin.bsky.social & @maynoothuniversity.ie

Still a few places left on our free Digital Epigraphy Workshop (TCD Dublin and MU Maynooth) 26-28 May! Hands-on training in #Photogrammetry #RTI #EpiDoc Sign up (and programme) here www.eventbrite.ie/e/epidoc-and...

Digital Epigraphy Workshop coming soon in Dublin (TCD) and Maynooth (MU)! #Photogrammetry #RTI and #EpiDoc hands-on training over 3 days. Booking essential for workshop as limited places (note: keynotes do not require booking). Programme & Eventbrite link: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Research Assistantship in the Dept of Early Irish @maynoothuniversity.ie, working with the amazing @chantalkobel.bsky.social for the SCRÍBHINN project on medieval Irish legal & medical manuscripts. Deadline 30 May 2025. More details here: ahi.maynoothuniversity.ie/mind-materia...

The OG(H)AM project just about made it, on the last day of the month, to publish Katherine Forsyth's Og(h)am of the Month, about a - once - mysterious small object from Moynagh Lough (Meath) with og(h)am on it: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og... While the object as such is mysterious no more... /1

What do Ogam-Irish MUCOI, Old Irish moccu "belonging to the kin-group" and the Pictish boar from Dores have to do with each other? Read it all up in my OG(H)AM-project blog for April 2025: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

In the mid-9th century, amidst fierce Viking raids, scribes in northeast Ireland copied a Latin textbook written in 6th-century Constantinople, this manuscript, is key to understanding the Irish language of the time. #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog #CuratorBlog #Archaeology www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

A BIG Og(h)am event coming up: Professor Katherine Forsyth's inaugural lecture at the University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social Wednesday 26 March 17:30 Registration at: www.eventbrite.com/cc/humanitie...

The "Og(h)am of the Month" March 2025 by Nora White (@ndefaoite.bsky.social) is one of the two stones on public display in @nmireland.bsky.social: I-COR-069 (CIIC 118) from Monataggart (Móin an tSagairt), Co. Cork ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og...

Found on early medieval monuments across Scotland, ogham is an ancient script using straight lines which we've yet to fully understand - but experts are investigating ✍️ On 19 March, learn how digital technologies are transforming our knowledge of ogham: digitscotland.com/events/ogham...

"Ogam, Ogma and Ogmios". My March blog-post for the OG(H)AM project about the relationship (or not) between the ogam writing system and various Celtic mythological figures, at: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... Ill.: Albrecht Dürer, Hermes (© KHM Wien) @researchireland.bsky.social @ukri.org

For the February 2025 OG(H)AM of the Month, I have written about the ‘virgular quinquecostate ogham writing’ in Cambridge, University Library MS 4437: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og... @davidstifter.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social