The 12th Linked Pasts annual symposium will be hosted in-person from 23–25 November 2026 by the Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation, University of Porto. Call for participation linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2026/06/23/l...

Happy International Day of Ogham everyone!

Tom Iwanicki@iwanicki.bsky.social · last mo.

Ogham stones bearing some of the earliest inscriptions of the Irish language as you enter Aula Maxima at University College Cork

It's the International Day of Ogham today. The (former) OG(H)AM project are happy to announce the recipients of this year's Certificate of Achievement for Ogham Excellence, the team behind the creation of "Carved in Stone. A Storyteller's Guide to Pictland". More: carvedinstone.scot #IntDayofOgham

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/...

Digital Encoding of Epigraphic Manuscripts and Surrogates

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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

Kristel Zilmer@kristelzilmer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A good seminar today at the Museum of Cultural History on documenting, mapping and analysing inscriptions. With inspiring guest speakers Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt, Jonathan Westin, @ndefaoite.bsky.social and @3dgroovanstones.bsky.social.

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...

Editing Inscriptions with EpiDoc: Case Studies from Glasgow

Thursday 11th December 2025, 2-4pm, Room 709A, Boyd Orr Building

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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?

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Ogham Stones of County Mayo book launched | Connaught Telegraph

OGHAM Stones of County Mayo, an illustrated book on Mayo’s ogham stones, has been launched in Claremorris Library.

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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

Launch of 'Ogham Stones of County Mayo' Booklet | National Heritage Week 16th – 24th August 2025

Join us for the Heritage Week launch of the 'Ogham Stones of County Mayo'. This richly illustrated booklet features information on the 12 recorded ogham stones ...

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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!

Incunabula@incunabula.bsky.social · last yr.

I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @babelstone.co.uk, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. 1/2

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 ...

Megan Kasten@3dgroovanstones.bsky.social · last yr.

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

⏰️ 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