Post #1328817
2026-04-18 11:29 UTC
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@darachennis@mastodon.ie 2026-04-18 11:44
@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie Hardly the first. Mannanán was an Irish god who had a self navigating boat and a horse that could travel over land and sea. So this would support going back another 5K years dependent on interpretation of mecha or drone... Great find though! Having a read and will throw in some PRs if I find anything!
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@faduda@mastodon.ie 2026-04-18 11:51
@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie What do they need? Transcription, conversion to modern spelling, translation?
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@seanos@aus.social 2026-04-19 06:22
@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie Tried to add some comments on Reddit, but apparently I don’t have enough Karma.
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@seanos@aus.social 2026-04-19 06:24
@davey_cakes@mastodon.ie I’ve done a bit of this for my own amusement, so a few observations. I’ve given OCR a bit of a go, but generally found the correction too tedious. During COVID I typed out Jimín Ṁáire Ṫhaiḋg from an Internet Archive pdf. My choice is to make punctuation spaces into 0x202f (Narrow No-break Space), but that’s just because I like the way it looks. The Caighdeánaitheoir (http://www.potafocal.com/cai/) does a reasonable job of converting obvious old spelling differences. Not 100% sure who came up with it but Michal would probably be happy to help. With Ní Ghráda, you’ll probably already have a more standard Munster Irish but I’d still be very cautious about correcting spelling in your initial run as there are lots of small dialect differences, especially around broad vs. slender, that appear in older books, e.g. tuigim vs. tigim, taispeáin vs taspáin etc. Oh, and I have some experience with the epub format too.