Gaelic Irish shields in the 16th century seem to have been of two distinct varieties. The general word for shield, sciath, was originally...

The 2014 discovery of a new example of a sixteenth century Irish ring pommel sword has provided fresh insights into this weapon.

The Irish saffron shirt (léine croich) and mantle followed a similar trajectory to that of their lineal descendant, Highland dress. ...

This brief note focusses on details of the organisation, equipment, clothing and training of a typical company of ‘shott’ in the service...

Two of the most important visual documents of traditional Gaelic dress have been somewhat overlooked, their full value obscured by a...

This account of the government’s final engagement with Brian na Múrtha O’Rourke provides a vivid picture of the nature of Elizabethan...

Rough men-at-arms, cross-gartered to the knees Or shod in iron, climbed the narrow stairs

So there you have the Circuit of Manannán mac Lir of the tuatha dé danann, who used to be going round Ireland.

“Dow knowest an Irishman cannot abide a fart.”

The courts of Gaelic regional lords were served by hereditary service kindreds of long standing.

An examination of the lineage, organisation, land holdings, and campaigns of the government galloglass.

The kern in Elizabethan Ireland were said to have a sword dance peculiar to them. What can we learn of its nature?

Everything in common but the bed.

“A Teague! A Teague! Well run, Irish!”

for so they call their horse-keepers be they never so old knaves

"The traitor is gone to the stone to receive that name."

And it was then that a levy of galloglasses was made on Clann Suibhne, and this is how the levy was made.

"Fight it out in the fair fields."

It has been regretted that we do not have Derricke’s presumed original drawings, as they would have greater immediacy.

Whereupon the kern took his dart, flung it and struck her through.