"Before The Kilt" by Jerry Kelly

[Steve Ashton]

I just got this in the mail this afternoon.

"Before The Kilt"
How the Irish and Scots Dressed in the 16th Century
By Gerald A. John Kelly
Published by The Druid Press
Copyright 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1466219786

Excerpt from About the Author;

A graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Business School, Jerry Kelly is a former Adjunct Professor of Irish Language and Culture at Fordham University.

He taught Irish on behalf of The Irish Arts Center in New York from 1979 to 1981; plus mythology and Seanchas through the medium of the Irish Language at Scoil Chaeilge Ghearoid Toibin/The Gerry Tobin Irish Language School from 1989 to 2007; and Irish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic culture at Fordham from 2008 to 2010.

He currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Irish Institute of Molloy College, teaches Irish on behalf of The Philo-Celtic Society, writes the Seanchas column of the Irish Language magazine AN GAEL, and is a member of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the American Irish Teachers' Association.


I have not had time to read this fully, but a glance through it appears very interesting.
It opens with a glossary of Irish Gaelic words used in the book and goes on to a very extensive discussion of Gaeil and Celts language and culture.

The rest of the book is a discussion using works of art from the 16th and 17th Century showing Irish and Scottish Dress of the period such as works by Lucas de Heere, Albrecht Durer & John Derrick.

I'll post more as I get a chance to read the entire book.

From first glance well worth the $12.00.