Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st.
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.
1 August 2021-ongoing.
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).
Katherine Forsyth, Professor of Celtic Studies, University of Glasgow; David Stifter, Professor of Old and Middle Irish, Maynooth University.
Deborah Hayden, Associate Professor in Early Irish, Maynooth University.
Dr Nora White and Dr Patricia O Connor, Maynooth Univ.; Dr Megan Kasten, Univ. of Glasgow.
Dr Luca Guariento, University of Glasgow.
The OG(H)AM team has also been supported by a number of interns: Clara Scholz (Marburg), Bodil Malmose, Molly McKendrick, Lucie Haase, Xenia Spanachi, and Morgan Livingstone.
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.