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The Ogam Stones at University College Cork (University Heritage) Paperback – January 1, 2004

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The collection of 28 Ogham stones at UCC represents the largest collection of Ogham inscriptions in open display in Ireland. In this guide Damian McManus places the stones in their literary, linguistic and archaeological context, and discusses the origins of Ogham, its distribution, execution and significance.
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    Cork University Press
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    January 1, 2004
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    8.86 x 0.24 x 5.59 inches
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    1859183204
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    978-1859183205
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cork University Press (January 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 32 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1859183204
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1859183205
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.53 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.86 x 0.24 x 5.59 inches
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Christopher R. Travers
5.0 out of 5 stars Small but interesting
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2010
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This book is very short (a mere 22 pages) but manages to cram in a brief introduction to the study of Ogham and a tour of the stones in question along with notes about how the carvings were done, in what direction, adding transcriptions, etc.

The introduction is helpful even for one who has read  Guide to Ogam . It includes a basic overview of the phonetics of the script along with a list of names. The condensed information is all in one place and serves as a bit of a highlight for what is known.

Not much more can be written about such a short work. I will say that for anyone interested in Ogam, I'd highly recommend this work.
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The British Druid Order
5.0 out of 5 stars short and easy to read, insightful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2019
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This book came up as a suggested purchase for me, and I thought ‘Why not?”

It is a very thin book, 23 pages in all, and is meant as a ‘guide’ to accompany a visit to the National University of Ireland, in Cork, where 27 ogham stones are kept on display.

The booklet comes in two halves –

The first half explains what ogham is and the different forms of Irish that it expresses – Primitive Irish (5th-6th Century) and then later into Old Irish (7th -9th Century), so obviously the written oghams change over time as the spoken language changes.

It explains that the assumption that the oghams all relate to trees was made up in the medieval period, mainly due to trees being the largest semantic category for the letter names (but by no means all the letters are named after trees) and also some of the names and meanings had been forgotten from manuscript ogham, so the assumption was carried over into them.

There is a small table showing the ogham symbols and their corresponding letter sounds in the modern alphabet, and it briefly explains how the ogham is used with a system of ‘kennings’ or phrases. For example, the third symbol ‘fern’ is means alder tree in Old Irish, and its kennings are ‘vanguard of warrior bands’, ‘milk container’ and ‘protection of the heart, which point to the use of alder wood as material for shields and liquid vessels. (paraphrased from the booklet, the other kennings are not stated or explained within)

The letters are given as follows ..
“Beithe – birch tree, Luis – flame/herb, Fern – Alder tree, Sail – willow tree, Nin – fork, Uath – fear, Dair – oak tree, Tinne – rod of metal, Coll – Hazel tree, Cert – bush, Muin – neck, Gort – field, Getal – act of slaying, Straif – sulphur, Ruis – red, Ailm – pine tree, Onn – ash tree, Ur – Earth, Edad -?, Idad – ?”

There the follows a sketch map showing the locations of the known ogham stones in Ireland, and how the script was written and can be translated – the script on stones followed a set pattern which follows the formula of [stone of ] “name”, son of “family name” which may then also be followed by the name of the tribe they represented.

The second half of the book numbers the stones that are on display in the University, and a transcript of the ogham written on it – these are literally the transcript into primitive or old irish with little in the way of explanation, but they are generally “name” son of “surname”.

What I did find interesting is the inscription on stone number 6 – BRANI MAQQI mU[]C and the rest is missing…. which translates as Bran, son of…. and the lost part shows the beginning of a word form that would presumably have given the name of an ancestor. Bran=Raven, as most of us are familiar with from the second branch of the mabinogion, so I was fascinated to read that Bran was used as a name both in brythonic Britain and in Ireland, and of course our mythology tells of a union between Wales and Ireland.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Scholar's appraisal of the Ogam script
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2015
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A sensible, scholarly appraisal of the Ogam or Ogham script. There has probably been more nonsense written about Ogham than anything else from the Celtic past, Amazon could probably set aside an entire warehouse for this material. It is a shame Damian McManus' other book on Ogham is not easily obtainable - even a 'print-on-demand' edition would be welcome. Thank you.
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