🌲2️⃣3️⃣🎁 21ˢᵗ c. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy On 5 November 2024, the OG(H)AM and OPal+ team hosted a launch event at the Royal Irish Academy to celebrate the completion of a spectacular new artwork by the scribal and graffiti artist and parchment-maker Thomas Keyes. This original piece of art… ᚐ - ThreadSky

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy

On 5 November 2024, the OG(H)AM and OPal+ team hosted a launch event at the Royal Irish Academy to celebrate the completion of a spectacular new artwork by the scribal and graffiti artist and parchment-maker Thomas Keyes. This original piece of art…
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davidstifter.bsky.social•68 days ago

…bridges 1,500 years of ogam and scribal tradition. It is a contemporary illuminated version of the Old Irish Auraicept na nÉces ‘The Scholars’ Primer’ and the ogam tract in the 14ᵗʰ-century Book of Ballymote (see our entries for 13, 16 and 17 December). Its title 𝒜𝓃𝓇𝑜𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓇𝒸𝓃𝒾𝒸𝓈𝒾𝓊𝓂𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓃𝑒 ‘all…
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davidstifter.bsky.social•68 days ago

…the mistakes which we have committed’ is quoted in the Primer as an example of the longest word in Irish. The artwork recreates the legendary origin of the Irish language as a warning of man’s relationship with technology and the power of the written word.
Keyes’ multilayered art blends medieval…
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davidstifter.bsky.social•68 days ago

…insular manuscript writing in authentic ink on vellum with two- and three-dimensional ogam and contemporary spray paint and street graffiti. More about the artwork and the launch event in the Irish Times in a column by Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2024/11/06/ogham-thoughts-frank-mcnally-on-a-new-artwork-an-old-alphabet-and-the-longest-word-in-irish/.
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davidstifter.bsky.social•68 days ago

The painting is now on display in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy (19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2) where it can be viewed publicly. In the photo, @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social explains the programme of the artwork to the renowned calligrapher Tim O’Neill.

🖼️: © Thomas Keyes @ria.ie

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