Tironian notes
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Tironian notes are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of shorthand dating from the 1st century BCE and named after Tiro, a personal secretary to Marcus Tullius Cicero, wh
A bilingual pay and display sign in Dublin with the Tironian et for the Irish agus ('and').
"Letter of Consolation for Departing Warriors", 9th century
R rotunda substituting for Tironian et in the abbreviation etc. at the end of the nobility title list. 1768
Irish Green postbox at Adare, County Limerick, with the P⁊Ꞇ (P&T) logo
Gaelic type
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Gaelic type is a family of Insular script typefaces devised for printing Early Modern Irish. It was widely used from the 16th century until the mid-18th century in Scotland and the mid-20th century in
Tironian notes
…limited support in Unicode. The et ⟨⁊⟩ is among the few that are included, because of its continued use as an ampersand in Insular script and then in Gaelic type. A number of other Tironian signs have been assigned to the Private Use Area of Unicode by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI). The Tironian…
Gaelic script used on an information plaque outside City Hall, near Dublin Castle.
Gaelic script on the gates of the Pontifical Irish College in Rome.
Gaelic script on a gravestone in County Kerry.
Gaelic script on an Irish national monument.