The Celtic font is a broad category for any style of font associated with Celts and Ireland's writing. Patrick, but they still convey the point. These fonts range from medieval and Gothic to Gaelic and Carolingian.įonts called "Irish," "Gaelic," or "Celtic" might not be historically accurate to the time of St. Patrick's Day projects using any of the fonts classified as Celtic. You can get an Irish look and feel for your St. Patrick's time were primarily in an uncial script, which is an uppercase-only font derived from a Roman cursive script. Patrick Day dates to Ireland and the Feast of St. It is interesting to find that Elizabeth I made this contribution to our Island of Saints and Scholars through her commissioning of the first Irish typeface.The origin of St. It was translated and prepared by John Kearney who, in the preface of the book, mentions, ‘Here is the first print of the laborious work, the true and perfect type of the Gaelic language, which will open to you the road that leads you to knowledge, which has been closed to you formerly, which is now seen at the expense of our pious, all powerful supreme prince, Elizabeth.’ This book contained 56 pages and was an Irish language catechism.
The entry for 1571 in James Ware’s Annals of Ireland states, ‘This year the Irish characters were first brought into the kingdom by Nicholas Walsh, chancellor of Saint Patrick’s in Dublin, and John Kearney, treasurer of the same, and it was ordered that the prayers of the Church should be printed in that language, and that where they were read out, a sermon was to be preached, which would be instrumental to convert many of the ignorant sort in those days.’ īy 1571, the new Irish typeface was available and one of the first works in which Irish type appeared was Abidil Gaoidheilge agus Caiticiosma. John Kearney, the treasurer of our own St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin agreed to provide ‘the stamps forms and matrices’ required to print two or three hundred catechisms, for the sum of £22 13s. The first typeface was commissioned in 1570. At one stage, Elizabeth commissioned a manuscript for her own use, entitled the ‘Iryshe-Latten-English-Primer’, which set down the Irish alphabet, as well as some words and phrase in Irish, along with translations in both English and Latin. Elizabeth had a strong interest in languages and enjoyed speaking to visitors from abroad in their own tongues. Having consulted some books from our library and our class notes, we learned that the first Irish typeface was commissioned by Elizabeth I in the late sixteenth century. As our Friday printing practice with printer Con Devlin involves setting up type to be printed, we thought that it might be interesting to learn a little more about the original Irish typeface, created for the purpose of printing material in the Irish language.
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