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Ogham alphabet

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Celtic Philology (Notes for a lecture series), 1886-1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-98/1/1/18
Scope and Contents A bundle of 11 notebooks, containing notes or scripts for lectures on a lecture series, which seems to have taken place between 1886 and 1887. The following notebooks survive:'Origins and position of the Celtic languages in the Indo-European group' (Item B.41a)'Early literature: Adamnan, etc.' (Item B.41b)'Letters and their sounds: Ogham' (Item B.41c)'Vowels and laws of sound change' (Item B.41d)'Grimm's Law' (Item...
Dates: 1886-1887

Note about Uilleam Swain who wrote ogham, October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/50
Scope and Contents

Note about Uilleam Swain [William Swain], Taigh Beallach Ruai, Earra GhĂ idheal/Argyllshire, who wrote ogham which his wife was able to understand.

Dates: October 1892

'Old Gaelic Literature', 1914

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Identifier: Coll-98/1/2/16
Scope and Contents

Script or notes for a lecture on the subject of old Gaelic literature, including some descriptions of Ogham. This appears to have been a lecture address to students of Celtic at the University of Edinburgh.

Dates: 1914