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Irish Ring Pommel Sword: New Insight into Use
The 2014 discovery of a new example of a sixteenth century Irish ring pommel sword has provided fresh insights into this weapon.
Wilde Irishe
Aug 20, 202112 min read
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The Saffron Shirt, Part 1: Saffron and Silk, Urine and Grease
The Irish saffron shirt (léine croich) and mantle followed a similar trajectory to that of their lineal descendant, Highland dress. ...
Wilde Irishe
Apr 30, 202142 min read
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Donnell O’Hagan’s Company of Shot: 1593
This brief note focusses on details of the organisation, equipment, clothing and training of a typical company of ‘shott’ in the service...
Wilde Irishe
Mar 3, 202124 min read
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Irish Tower Houses: a Spotter’s Guide
Rough men-at-arms, cross-gartered to the knees
Or shod in iron, climbed the narrow stairs
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Sep 16, 202012 min read
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O’Donnell’s Kern—A Sixteenth-Century Campfire Tale
So there you have the Circuit of Manannán mac Lir of the tuatha dé danann, who used to be going round Ireland.
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Aug 24, 202012 min read
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A Fault as Light as Wind: Braigetóiri?
“Dow knowest an Irishman cannot abide a fart.”
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Aug 4, 20205 min read
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Lucht Tighe—Service Kindreds of Irish Chieftains
The courts of Gaelic regional lords were served by hereditary service kindreds of long standing.
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Jul 6, 20206 min read
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Sword Dance of the Irish Kern
The kern in Elizabethan Ireland were said to have a sword dance peculiar to them. What can we learn of its nature?
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Apr 23, 20208 min read
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Irish Domestics: Household of an Irish Chief
Everything in common but the bed.
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Apr 11, 202010 min read
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Horseboys: Irish Lackeys, Irish Footmanship
for so they call their horse-keepers be they never so old knaves
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Mar 23, 20204 min read
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Discoveries at Tullyhogue: O’Neill Inauguration Site & Native Settlement
"The traitor is gone to the stone to receive that name."
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Feb 20, 20205 min read
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Beware the Cat: Part 2
Whereupon the kern took his dart, flung it and struck her through.
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Jan 10, 20204 min read
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Beware the Cat
Doubting lest, when she had eaten that, she would eat them too because they had no more for her.
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Jan 3, 20204 min read
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The O’Byrnes of Wicklow: Tara in the Mountains
To find what may have been iron age raths still inhabited at this date is remarkable, but not isolated in Ireland.
Wilde Irishe
Dec 20, 20194 min read
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Getting Saffron in Kilkenny
We must change their course of government, apparel, manner of holding land, their language and habit of life.
Wilde Irishe
Dec 13, 20193 min read
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The MacGiollapadraig’s Lordship and ‘Grany ny Costegan, shot’
Like the Earl of Tyrone, Florence the third Baron of Upper Ossory updated his armed forces, and by 1601 his men had been converted to shot a
Wilde Irishe
Dec 5, 20193 min read
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Johan Bale and the Galoglasse's dog
To whome for a mocke now of late a Galoglasse of the land brought hys dogge wrapped in a shete with .ii. pence about his necke to have him
Wilde Irishe
Nov 29, 20193 min read
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Wilde Irishe: What’s in a Name?
"Wilde Irish" or "King's Iryshe enymyes" were distinguished from the English nation in mid-16th century Ireland, . . .
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Nov 21, 20192 min read
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