Derrick's The Image of Irelande (1581) & Irish Clothing

[thescot]

Magnificent images, Terry. I shall spend a lot of time examining them in detail. Thanks.

[Paul Henry]

some pictures from The Highland Kilt and the Old Irish Dressby William Pinkerton in The Ulster Journal of Archaeology, First Series, Vol. 6 (1858), pp. 316-327
the text that goes with it is:
The figures, 1 aid 2, in the accompaying plate, taken from a very rare, (I believe, unique) en graving of Irish costime, purporting to be "DRxw?r APTE, R TH QrcMEr," and preserved in the Douce collection, in the J3odleian Library-exhibit the plaited shirts, lwhose sleeves hang trailing down;" the short-waisted jerkin, with "pleates set thick about" the middle. In it we see also the formidable "skene,"2 and the peculiaxly shaped swords, lke those on the tomnbs of Irish kings, as represented by Waler. Again, in figure 3, repr?esenting O"More, an Irish chief, in 1600, from a MS. in Tlinity College, Dublin, we see the "'fernoralia silfijoisasima et arctissinaa" of Camden, 'Quod vero ad mores, iuitom, et lingasm spectat, a silvestribus illis Hibelmicis, de quibus egimus, ne tantillum dis crepaut ia facile unaan eadem esse gentem cognoseamus,
320 tlhl II Irish trouzes" of Derrick. Figure 4 is from DeiTick, and represents " Donolle Obreane," an Irish agent employed by the government to negociate with insurgent ehiefs. He is in the act of receiving a letter from the hand of Lord Depuaty Sir Henry Sidney, who is on horseback. Figure 5 is from the same work, and represents a "Lamerne," clothed in a mantle, driving off a herd Of cattle after a successfLl foray on the English pale.

It's another interesting article on Highland/Irish Dress.

The Hensall article is fascinating, Especially as a child I often saw the model and the tartan in a glass case every time I went to the Museum,(about twice a week!)
I've got a reference copy as well, but not sure whether I am allowed to openly show it

ps. sorry the pdf copy has not faithfully copied the text, but I'm sure you get the gist!

[Paul Henry]

BoldHighlander,
Henshall's report

This is a link to jstor, which holds all sorts of academic articles and journals, you need to be signed in via an academic/research body, but they have a great collection of all sort of pages. It's possible that some of you might be able to have access to it,I've spent many, many hours looking at all sorts of papers, sometimes just following links

[BoldHighlander]

BoldHighlander,
Henshall's report

This is a link to jstor, which holds all sorts of academic articles and journals, you need to be signed in via an academic/research body, but they have a great collection of all sort of pages. It's possible that some of you might be able to have access to it,I've spent many, many hours looking at all sorts of papers, sometimes just following links

Thanks for the link, but unfortunately I'm not affiliated with any academic/research body.
I won't give up hope of reading it though.

p.s. thanks for adding the art illustrations earlier!

[Bugbear]

Thanks for the link, but unfortunately I'm not affiliated with any academic/research body.
I won't give up hope of reading it though.
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