EMISoS: Early Medieval Irish Scripts on Stone – The Origins and Early Development of Irish Epigraphic Culture

Principal Investigator: Dr Nora White

Website: https://emisos.maynoothuniversity.ie/ 

EMISoS is a 4-year research project funded by a Pathway Award from Research Ireland. The primary aim of the project is to advance our understanding and knowledge of early epigraphic writing in Ireland (both ogham and Insular Latin scripts) within the broader European context. The project team is undertaking a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the inscriptions, including the palaeographic and material aspects of the inscribed monuments, as well as a smaller number of portable objects. Most of the inscriptions pre-date texts in manuscripts and are more securely linked to specific locations, some even remaining in their landscape setting, allowing for insights to be investigated into the early development of the Irish language, writing and literacy, and the spread of Christianity, which is particularly linked to the use of the Latin script and the development of cross-slabs.