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Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st

og-h-am

Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st.

Overview:

The project will harness digital tools from different fields to transform scholarly and popular understanding of ogham—an ancient script unique to Ireland and Britain. This project provides the long-awaited opportunity to complete the corpus of ogham-inscribed Irish stones begun by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Ogham in 3D project (2012-15, 2016-17; created by White with our partner organisations, the Discovery Programme, and the Irish Government’s National Monuments Service) and to extend it to include oghams in all media, including the many outside the Republic of Ireland.

Dates:

1 August 2021-31 July 2024.

Website:

https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk

Funders:

Arts and Humanities Research Council and Irish Research Council, under the ‘UK Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research Grants Call’ (grant numbers AH/W001985/1 and IRC/W001985/1).

Team

Principal Investigators:

Katherine Forsyth, Professor of Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow; David Stifter, Professor of Old and Middle Irish, Maynooth University.

Co-Investigator:

Deborah Hayden, Associate Professor in Early Irish, Maynooth University.

Post-doctoral researchers:

Dr Nora White and Dr Patricia O Connor, Maynooth Univ.; Dr Megan Kasten, Univ. of Glasgow.

Digital officer:

Dr Luca Guariento, University of Glasgow.

Student Intern:

Clara Scholz, Philipps-Universität, Marburg.

Partner organisations:

School of Celtic Studies of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; Discovery Progamme; Museums: British Museum, National Museums of Scotland, National Museum of Ireland, National Museum of Wales; Manx Museum (and in collaboration with Ulster Museum). State heritage agencies: Historic Environment Scotland, Cadw, Manx Heritage; National Monuments Service of Ireland.