Fabula Celtica: A Celtic Studies Podcast5 Aug 2024

S01 E08: Words in Stone

In the first of three episodes about early Irish writing, we explore the fascinating myths, enigmatic history, and linguistic quirks of the stone markings known as ogam or ogham.

Main topics addressed: Irish language, Latin, ogam (ogham), Ogma, early medieval Ireland.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gg2THDqf5Tm0JpaIus2zgpSzKA7-1oaOhbGndYL1wA0/edit?usp=sharing

References and Suggested Media:

Binchy, D. A. 1961. ‘The Background of Early Irish Literature’, Studia Hibernica 1, 7-18.

Carey, John. 2014. ‘Ogmios and the Eternal Word’, Cosmos, 30, 1-35.

Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/

Charles-Edwards, T. 1995. ‘Language and Society Among the Insular Celts, AD 400-1000’, in The Celtic World, ed. M.J. Green, 703-736.

Clinton, Mark. 2001. Souterrains of Ireland (Wordwell Ltd).

Gutiérrez, Verónica A. 2019. ‘A Procession Through the Milpas: Indigenous-Christian ritual in Cholula, Pueblo, Mexico’, Fides et Historia 51(1), 105-123.

Harvey, A. 1987. ‘Early Literacy in Ireland: The Evidence from Ogam’, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 14, 1-15.

Macalister, R. A. S. 1945. Corpus inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols, vol. 1 (Dublin: Stationery Office).

Mac Cana, P. 1970. ‘The Three Languages and the Three Laws’, Studia Celtica 5, 62-78; 62-66.

MacNeill, E. 1908-1909. ‘Notes on the distribution, history, grammar and import of the Irish Ogham Inscriptions’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 27C, 329-70: 329-34.

MacNeill, E. 1922. ‘A Pioneer of Nations’, Studies 11, 13-28, 435-46.

MacNeill, E. 1931. ‘Beginnings of the Latin Culture in Ireland’, Studies 20, 39-48.

McManus, D. 1991. A Guide to Ogam, Maynooth Monographs 4.

Ogam in 3D http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/

Russel, James R. Zoroastrianism in Armenia (Thesis, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies).

Stevenson, J. 1989. ‘The Beginnings of Literacy in Ireland’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 89C, 127-65.

Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS) http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ogam/frame/htm

Thomas, Charles. 1994. And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? Post-Roman Inscriptions in Western Britain (University of Wales Press).

Waddell, John. 2014. “The cave of Crúachain and the Otherworld”, in: Jacqueline Borsje, Ann Dooley, Séamus Mac Mathúna, and Gregory Toner (eds), Celtic cosmology: perspectives from Ireland and Scotland 26 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies), 77–92.

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