Source of knowledge for medieval Irish and ancient Celtic languages.
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@1Dunbogue@neilmcguigan Well, tough question. I don't buy the idea that Irish/Goidelic is just a q-ified British Celtic. As for the difference between Gaulish and British, it's a bit of an unequal comparison since the two are attested from different times and we cannot see what the really...
@poetsoup@medievalgill@JackmanNeil ... the early middle ages, esp. 6th-9th centuries, often called the "Golden Age", are the most consequential. They still reverberate in 21st-century consciousness, and they are the period that many people outside Ireland would be familiar with in one way or another.
@poetsoup@medievalgill@JackmanNeil First, just to clarify, I do not consider myself a historian, but I am a historical linguist.
Question 1: Very hard to tell, but the late 19th, early 20th century, i.e. the development of the idea of a national identity is very interesting.
Question 2: I do think that...
A regular reminder: books about the Ancient Celtic languages are availabe through the Maynooth University Bookshop (e.g., my book on Ogham at https://t.co/c68gMhvp75) or (soon again) in the shop of @nmireland).
@AmandaChadburn ...to the Iceni coins (or British coins in general), you may want to get in touch with Simon Rodway and Sasha Falileyev in Aberystwyth who are carrying out a research project at the moment in which they will collect all ancient Celtic material from Britain.
@AmandaChadburn In my ogam book, I provide grammatical information as far as it is relevant to the - grammatically very restricted - Primitive Irish inscriptions. There is no such book for Ancient British, chiefly because the vernacular textual documents are so few. However, with regard...
@AmandaChadburn@NMIreland Yes, all four known ancient Celtic languages have received one of those booklets: Celtiberian, Gaulish, Cisalpine Celtic, and the Primitive Irish ogam inscriptions. The entire series includes other ancient languages as well: https://t.co/VVOVZ0SZ8H
@GoingawayOf@nrken19@NMIreland Yes, ogam is a writing system, and that's precisely what I state very explicitly in my book. The inscriptions are not in Old Irish, though, but in Primitive Irish, which is the immediate precursor stage of the language.
@Seananocoistin@DDindshenchas Níl, tá an tSean-Ghaeilge ró-dheacair chun an méid seo a dhéanamh go huathobibríoch.
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@JHDScourfield What even fewer people know, the absolutely disgusting true history of the saint commonly known as St Pancake (Sanctus Pancacius), who was Παγκάκκιος in his native Greek.