IrishCentral ogham - b5cc3275d518416eacb61d676e8d84d1 http://www.irishcentral.com/topics/ogham IrishCentral ogham en-us http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/The-origins-of-The-Shamrock-Club-Ogham---ancient-Irish-alphabet-explained-193819371.html http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/The-origins-of-The-Shamrock-Club-Ogham---ancient-Irish-alphabet-explained-193819371.html The origins of The Shamrock Club Ogham - ancient Irish alphabet explained (IrishCentral) Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:50:55 PST
By: BRYAN FITZGERALD

As part of your esteemed Gold and Green Shamrock membership, you receive a sleek and beautiful Ogham (pronounced “AHG-m” or “OH-ehm”) marked with the ancient Irish alphabet composed of 25 unique symbols dating back to the 1st century.

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishAmerica/Trees-Tea-and-ESP-117584309.html http://www.irishcentral.com/IrishAmerica/Trees-Tea-and-ESP-117584309.html Slainte! Trees, Tea and ESP (IrishCentral) Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:11:55 PST
By: Edythe Preet

My Irish grandmother, Margaret McCaffrey, was a psychic. “Pooh! Not possible,” you say. Maybe, maybe not, but here’s the story. You be the judge.

READ MORE ]]> http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/the-irish-learned-tradition-was-first-written-in-the-trees-104439373.html http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/the_keane_edge/the-irish-learned-tradition-was-first-written-in-the-trees-104439373.html The learned Irish tradition was first written in the trees (IrishCentral) Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:25:13 PDT
The Irish have a learned tradition that is unique to Europe and which helped flip the continent from barbaric illiteracy in Dark Ages, to the illumination and bookishness that would become western civilization Important European universities began as Irish monasteries, built by literati that left Ireland with the education to teach the chaotic post-Roman world to read Old Irish books are tortured creatures, made from skinned calves, and often fated to the bonfires of Europe's philistine streak In the bonfires of conquerors the independent scholarly tradition of Ireland's proto-universities was almost destroyed, as with the round towers and sanctuaries along the Shannon READ MORE ]]>