Lora O'Brien - Ogham Academy

Lora O'Brien, founder of the Ogham Academy in County Waterford, Ireland, shares videos on the Ogham Alphabet, an ancient Irish writing system that has been used for almost 2000 years for practical, spiritual, and magical purposes. Ogham remains a somewhat mysterious Celtic writing script, to this very day. It was invented in Ireland, most probably during the 4th Century CE, and was developed to express the sounds of the oldest known version of the Irish language – Primitive Irish. Our earliest examples of the script are found carved into ogham stones. These inscribed stone slabs were used by Gaelic Irish tribes to record our history. Ogham is a unique system of notches and lines, used to represent the sounds of the Primitive Irish tongue. It is a written alphabet, not a language in it's own right - an important distinction. Learn more about the Ogham alphabet, with a native author and educator, and discover why it’s becoming more popular today.