Claíomh: 2012

Monday, 26 November 2012

Maille-making this week!

Friday, 3 August 2012

New images from the Irish National Heritage Park now posted on FB

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Irish pikeman c.1600 in Killery type 'cóta mór' and munition grade cabasset helmet

Saturday, 30 June 2012

Butler Trail National Launch 28th June 2012, Ormonde Castle, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary. Pics: Joe Keogh http://www.keoghphotography.com/

Friday, 15 June 2012

Some images from a recent event at Dunsandle Castle & Woods in Co Galway. For more on this picturesque 15th century Irish tower-house please visit http://www.dunsandlecastle.com/

Sunday, 10 June 2012

Launch of the Butler Trail at The Main Guard at Clonmel in Co Tipperary - 9th June 2012

Saturday, 2 June 2012

Launch of the Butler Trail at Ormonde Castle at Carrick-On-Suir in Co Tipperary - 2nd June 2012

Friday, 6 April 2012

Hell's Kitchen: Q&A With Claíomh’s Dave Swift – Living History By ...

Hell's Kitchen: Q&A With Claíomh’s Dave Swift – Living History By ...: Claíomh members in action. Claíomh (meaning 'sword' in the Gaelic) is a military 'living history' group based in Ireland reenacting Lat...

Historical Era

The group specialises in interpretations of warriors and soldiery c.1480-1660 A.D. of Irish Gaelic lineage (in which we include the galloglasses or gallóglaigh who were originally of Norse-Highland descent although who were by sixteenth-century times largely populated by native Irishmen), seasonal 'redshank' mercenaries from the Scots Highlands/Western Isles, those of Anglo-Irish - or 'Old English' - extraction, and Anglo-Scots Borderers. The period of speciality covered by Claíomh stretches from the last quarter of the fifteenth century with the final death throe of the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Stoke Field in 1487 - which involved the invasion of England by a combined Hiberno-German force - carrying through to the epoch of the tumultuous sixteenth century under the shadow of the powerful Tudor dynasty, and onwards into the seventeenth century to the end of the Irish Confederate Wars fought in the 1640’s. Particular focus centres round the military personnel who participated in three main areas of study:

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