Sources & References

• The Book of Ballymote: The Ogam Scales
  by Dr. Barry Fell

• Auraicept na N-Éces -- (The Scholar's Primer)
  ed. and translated by George Calder, Edinburgh, John Grant 1917

• What Life Was Like Among Druids and High Kings; Celtic Ireland AD 400-1200
  
  by the Editors of Time-Life Books; 1998
  Not much on ogham, but a very attractive and well-rounded book. A great place to start.
  
  
  
  
• Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
  
  by James MacKillop
  For my money, THE best book on the subject. If you only get one reference book on Celtic Myth., this is the one to get.
  
  
  
  
• Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race
  by T.W. Rolleston
  pulished by : Farrar & Renehart; New York
  
  (hard to find/out of print)
  If you find the hardcover of this book in a used book-store, with the color plates still in it, NAB IT! (heck, I might even buy it from you...)
  
  
  This reprint, entitled "Celtic Mythology", may be the exact same book, but I have not been able to confirm for sure.
  
  
  
• A Guide to Irish Mythology
  by Daragh Smyth
  pulished by : Irish Academic Press; Dublin
  
  1st ed.: 1988, 2nd ed.: 1996
  This guide, structured alphabetically with a helpful cross-reference system, allows the reader to delve into the ornate world of Irish mythology and its four cycles of tales...Deserves a wide readership.
  
  
  
• The White Goddess : A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
  by Robert Graves; 1948
  
  
  
  
• Celtic Mysteries: The Ancient Religion (Art and Imagination)
  by John Sharkey; 1948
  [ view sample text ]
  
  
  
• The New Columbia Encyclopedia; Columbia University Press, 1975
  
  
• http://www.celticmist.freeserve.co.uk/ogham.htm
  (formerly http://home.clara.net/dhopcroft/ogham.htm )
  attributed to "Celt at Aberffraw"
  Has a list of the ogham characters with associated trees and Welsh names.
  Also a short written description of a few actual stones.
  
  
• http://www.evertype.com/standards/og/ognames.html
  attributed to "Michael Everson"
  This page has a list of Ogham Character name variations, with sources listed.
  

Other Books / Reviews

• Ogham : An Irish Alphabet
  by Tim Stampton, Cristoir Mag Fhearaigh, Criostoir Mag Fhearaigh
  Don't bother buying this book. All the info it contains is here at The Ogham Stone.
  
  
• Auriacept na nEces ; The Scholar's Primer
  GEORGE CALDER, Editor (1995)

This book contains the 12th-century Irish grammatical treatise, Auraicept na n-Éces (Auraicept na n-âeces = The scholars' primer), which is devoted to the training of poets in the art of grammar. The Auraicept is unique among medieval grammatical works in that it represents the earliest vernacular tradition in Europe. Its earliest ('canonical') parts date as far back as the 7th century. In its present form, it contains much ancient material relating to the Latin and Ogham alphabets, the nature of Old Irish and Latin gender, comparison, and declension. Added to this there is much commentary and annotation from later periods.

The Auraicept is, in effect, a syllabus of poetic education that pre-dates the Bardic schools, as well as informing them throughout their long history (the text is mentioned in the Bardic Introductory Tract and as late as Keating's History of Ireland.

In this edition, George Calder collated the two most important texts of the Auraicept - those from the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow Book of Lecan.

Note however, that some have some interesting opinions on what the book actually is:
The Auraicept is a magical comedy written and added to between c.650-1000 CE, and is thinly disguised as an ancient learned treatise describing the hoary antiquity of ogham.... more