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

Wonderful visit to the National Museum of Ireland with @liber-ray.bsky.social. Glad to see some ogham in the 'Words on the Wave' exhibition, including the Moynagh Lough ogham recently discussed by the #OG_H_AM team @davidstifter.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

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

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...

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𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 10 This Sunday, 8 June, RTÉ One will be broadcasting episode 1 of a four-part documentary series entitled ‘From that small island. The story of the Irish’, concerned with the history of the Irish people, on this island and abroad, from prehistory to today. The time is 18.30. /1

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 ...

This afternoon, @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social and @palaeofuturist.bsky.social discuss how to fix all of life's mistakes with Epidoc (at least how to encode editorial correction of mistakes(?) in inscriptions) #mistake-or-decision @ndefaoite.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @ceilteachomn.bsky.social

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

Ogma’s ogham workshop, cutting edge since c. 700

⏰️ 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

@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

After a morning spent encoding the metadata of inscribed objects, the afternoon session of the Digital Epigraphy workshop is dedicated to encoding the inscription. @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.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

📢 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...

@ndefaoite.bsky.social @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social

Day 2 of the Digital Epigraphy workshop @maynoothuniversity.ie starts with a warm welcome from @davidstifter.bsky.social of the #OG_H_AM project. Yesterday, we focused on #Photogrammetry and #RTI with @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social. Today, we're learning #EpiDoc with @palaeofuturist.bsky.social.

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

There's still time to register for the workshop on Digital Epigraphy with @palaeofuturist.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social and @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social, happening from Monday, May 26, 2025 until Wednesday, May 28, 2025 and jointly hosted by @tcddublin.bsky.social and @maynoothuniversity.ie.

Great opportunity for you to join the team here at @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social participate in the survey of many great Irish sites.

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

Do you use Historic Environment Scotland's data? If so you need to know that Canmore is being retired this June. Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta. Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...

There are now only eight weeks until Canmore is switched off. Please look at Canmore's replacement www.trove.scot and feedback your comments on functionality, using the feedback form, while you still can.

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...

JOB! ORA and Isotope technician www.uni-bonn.de/de/universit... 🧪🔬🏺

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...

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...

It's the first Wednesday of the month so that means it is FREE ENTRY to many of the @opwireland.bsky.social heritage sites around Ireland, like the Neolithic landscapes of the Céide Fields in County Mayo. So it's the perfect day to explore!

"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

So delighted for my supervisee Marly Samuel, who today passed her PhD viva for her outstanding work titled "Participatory Co-Production and Augmented Reality for Ocean Heritage: Preserving Ocean Knowledge and Culture in Namibia" pictured here with myself and Dr Matt Poyade.

Took advantage of an early morning drop-off at Edinburgh Airport and the first blue skies I've seen all break to drop by some old friends at Abercorn parish church @celticist.bsky.social @ascorpus.bsky.social

⚠️job alert⚠️ Four year postdoc in Bergen, Norway on ancient studies and religion. Find full details about the position at the link below. The deadline is 17th March www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I've decided to attempt a sculpture-focused Instagram (@sculpturesmith). This emerged after spending the last year leading tours of sculpture in the British Museum. I'll try my best to include as much geographic, temporal, and material breadth as possible. If you're interested, have a follow!

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

Funded PhD opportunity University of Stirling on heritage, community, care & wellbeing in collaboration with National Trust for Scotland: www.stir.ac.uk/research/res...

🏺For this month's #OG_H_AM blog, I've written about our investigations into the ogham stone from Pool, Orkney - a team viewing of the 3D model and a trip to the excavation archive appear to have brought this inscription from the 6th century to the 9th! ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

In 1782, 7 ogam stones were uncovered by a storm in Smerwick Harbour (I-KER-015–021; tl. Ballinrannig/Baile an Reannaigh, Co. Kerry); see Og(h)am of the Month November 2024 (ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og...). Will Storm Éowyn live up to this? The OG(H)AM project is full of expectations.

Katherine Forsyth serves us two bottles of beer for Dry January's Og(h)am of the Month, namely from the Gigha Brewery: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og... @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social

The OG(H)AM Blog for January 2025 is from our coding colleague Patricia O Connor @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social, continuing from December: Twelve Coding Challenges for Christmas (Part 2) ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social @ndefaoite.bsky.social

Shout out to the prop makers on BBC Merlin who, in the episode where Ogham script appears, decided to utilise practically every single form of the script found in the 'Book of Oghams' from the Book of Ballymote! Feels like it was easter egg made for me alone 😅

There's a fantastic section in this new Digging for Britain episode about the Pictish cross-slab (with as-yet-unread ogham inscription!) from Old Kilmadock in Stirlingshire. Great work @stirlingdigger.bsky.social getting it lifted and removed for conservation. Section is from 34:05 to 45:15.

OK you can STOP THE INTERNET - we have a winner 🏅🤣 #Archaeology #StarWars #HypocaustGate

If you agree with me that the Christmas break shouldn't be over yet, here's a straw to cling on to: The entire OG(H)AM Advent Calendar 2024 by @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social and me, as Og(h)am of the Month December 2024: ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/og... Thank you @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social!

🌲1️⃣9️⃣🎁 19ᵗʰ c. Dublin, RIA MS 23 M 35 (655) The late 18ᵗʰ and early 19ᵗʰ centuries saw the beginning of the modern systematic study of ogam stones. One of the foremost antiquarians of the period was John Windele from Cork (1801–65) who was involved in the identification and collection of… ᚐ

🎉 New Year, New Job? The ADS are excited to announce we are looking for two new Digital Archives Assistants to join our growing team! 👉To find out more visit the University of York jobs page or click here https://buff.ly/3ZVRMhE #JobOpportunity #DigitalArchiving #HiringNow #ArchaeologyJobs