Irish language
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Irish, also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language within the Indo-European language family native to the Irish people and indigenous to the island of Ireland. It was the first l
The distribution of the Irish language in 1871
Bilingual sign in Grafton Street, Dublin
Bilingual road signs in Creggs, County Galway
A sign for the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in Northern Ireland, in English, Irish and Ulster Scots
Ogham
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Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language, and later the Old Irish language. It was also used much less frequently to record the Pictish language in what is
Irish language
…1890. On the island of Newfoundland, a unique dialect of Irish developed before falling out of use in the early 20th century. With a writing system, Ogham, dating back to at least the 4th century AD, which was gradually replaced by Latin script since the 5th century AD, Irish has one of the oldest vernacular…
An inscription found in 1975 in Ratass Church, Tralee, County Kerry
Carving of ogham letters into a stone pillar – illustration by Stephen Reid (1873–1948), in: Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. Rolleston (1857–1920), published 1911, p. 288
Fol. 170r of the Book of Ballymote (1390), the Auraicept na n-Éces explaining the ogham script
Mug with ogham letters: the four series (aicmi) of the 20 original letters and the five most important supplementary letters (forfeda)