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Old Irish style writing and Ogham examples please

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  • 03-07-2011 9:50am
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    samsemtex
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    Hi, im looking for a website which will give good examples of Irish written in old style writing like it used to be written before. You know where the letters are joined and that kind of thing.

    Also is there a website with good examples of Ogham writing.

    Thanks for any help.


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    samsemtex
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    Wow, active board...


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    Insect Overlord
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    samsemtex wrote: »
    Hi, im looking for a website which will give good examples of Irish written in old style writing like it used to be written before. You know where the letters are joined and that kind of thing.

    Could you be a little less vague? Gaelic typography was first printed in the late 1700s and was still in use in the first half of the last century. Are you looking for samples of hand-written font from pre-1750?

    As for Ogham writing, a quick Google image search returns plenty of examples.


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    Krusader
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    http://www.ellipsix.net/textwriter/render.html

    For sean-chló


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    uch
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    Google

    21/25



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    dubhthach
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    You mean something like this?

    dubhthach.PNG

    That's using a font called Rudhraigheacht, based on one used in print during the 1930's.

    Slightly more modern font that I prefer is Gadelica:

    dubhthach-gadelica.png

    Gadelica.png


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    Cathaoirleach
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    You can read the news in seanchló!

    http://nuacht1.com/ga/


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    samsemtex
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    dubhthach wrote: »
    You mean something like this?

    dubhthach.PNG

    That's using a font called Rudhraigheacht, based on one used in print during the 1930's.

    Slightly more modern font that I prefer is Gadelica:

    dubhthach-gadelica.png

    Gadelica.png

    yes thats what i was looking for. Anywhere i can find the complete alphabet?


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    subedei
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    Well u can see directly from the real manuscripts here:

    http://www.isos.dias.ie/english/index2.html


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    dubhthach
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    samsemtex wrote: »
    yes thats what i was looking for. Anywhere i can find the complete alphabet?

    Gadelica can be downloaded from here:
    http://www.iol.ie/~sob/gadelica/

    Here's the Charset:
    gadelicaUCS.gif

    Rudhraigheacht can be downloaded from here:
    http://www.folkplanet.com/seanchlo/ruraiocht/index.html


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