My Irish ancestors were literally BTFO for thousands of years

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>>2623356

>>2623411
>tfw your shitty project fails so hard the guys you kicked out come back and hang your rotting corpse

what did the english mean by this?

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Collection of Irish swords

Coincidentally OP it's actually the anniversary of Dürer's death today

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>>2624258
moar

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>>2624260
yet moar

>>2624258
>>2624260
>>2624265
Jesus, how much money did you spend on all this stuff anon?

>>2623356
But you do realise they fucked an empire off pretty damn good.

>>2624258
Those helmets are Irish?

>>2625084
uh... black Irish?

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>>2625084
The top is a cheekless Scottish burgeonet. The bottom is a continental crested morion. Both would have been acquired through payment or booty as mercs.

Pic related is a native design from Ireland: the Lough Henney helm. They were very stunted, technologically.

this >>2624403
put it all on ebay and if some autistic LARPer wants to pay top Euro for it let him be your guest

>>2623356

Irish definitely the most aesthetic

>>2626108
Haha get fucked Connacht

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>two Irish threads on the front page
Truly the Irish are the most powerful race in the world

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*blocks your path*

>>2626067

looks like those ones that the soldiers of Gondor wear

>>2623356
>>2626108
>>2626430
Why didn't they have proper fuckibg shoes?

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>>2626547
They did, they were just mostly worn indoors

>>2626557
What kind of backward potato thinking is that?

>>2626564
Ireland at the time was basically a giant hilly forested bog so if you wore shoes outside you'd just ruin them. Ireland wasn't exactly the wealthiest place in the world so most people probably only had one or two pairs of shoes, and cows were used as currency and maybe that effected the leather supply somewhat.

>>2626590
Thanks for this I reply kind anon.

>>2626557
>>2626590

>found in a bog

>these shoes were worn inside

>>2626590
>>2626557
>unverifiable illigical sounding horseshit
>people take it as fact
>image of shoe found in bog, when bogs are generally outside houses

>>2624258
Not all of those are swords anon, one of them is a lobster.

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Irish "history"

>>2623356
>>2626430
>>2626557
they look like hobits

>>2626606
>get your track shoes, we're going to murder you and throw you into a bog

>>2627075
maybe leprechauns were hobbits

>>2624224
>hang
No he was ritually beheaded and put on tower bridge>>2626138
>celts
>aesthetic
Nah m8 that's the angul seaxans

>>2627075
>>2627094

The Shire was an allegorical representation of Ireland.

>>2626606
>>2626684
The anon you're responding to isn't all wrong. Shoes weren't worn outside often but some classes were more likely to do it than others. Gallowglasses are consistently portrayed in artwork as wearing shoes outside, as are nobles, guards and priests, while ascetics, monks, peasants and common soldiers generally don't wear shoes outside in Irish artwork.

It's not really "unverifiable" as the artwork from the 9th until the 16th century is pretty consistent in that regard. In the 17th century Irish dress changes quite dramatically and starts to look a little less unique, and shoes become a lot more common after this point.

>>2627341
The Shire represented rural England, not Ireland. Tolkien didn't like Ireland very much. Consider that he used Welsh as an inspiration for Elvish while he used Irish as a partial inspiration for Black Speech.

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>>2627271
>Celts not aesthetic.
Please.

>>2623356
Why don't they wear shoes?

>>2627341
The Shire was the west midlands.

the scouring of the shire was tolkien's commentary on the industrialization of the midlands during his lifetime.

>>2627610
ireland is all bogs, marsh and moss

>>2627612
>>2627341
>>2627533

The Shire is Oxfordshire, Tolkien's home.

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G A L L O W G L A S S

>>2623356
>literally BTFO for thousands of years
Not really. More like BTFO for a few hundred years

Reminder that:

connacht > munster > ulster >>>>>> ((((leinster))))

>>2626590
>>2626564
>>2626557
Ireland being bog-land is what necessitated the development of the brogue (which are Irish). They were made in such a way as to let the water leak back out of the shoe, so you didn't get fucking swamp foot.

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The IRA really had its budget cut

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GALLOW
GLASS

>>2627701
Is that Armour Class' claymore? Fuckin' want one.

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The third Tipperary Brigade, groups like this defeated the worlds most powerful and largest empire.

>>2624258
Great collection.

I suppose. I'll green text this

>Be Irish
>when I was about 10 my friend found an old ornate sword near a castle
> lol lets chop up trees
>sword breaks
>throw into ditch

My archaeologist girlfriend still hates me for it,
Also a neolithic brass axe was found about 100 metres from my house near a cairn which is pretty rare I'm told.

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>>2631889
Anon you absolute fucker

>>2631894
I'm sorry..

I know that there is a place reserved for me in hell

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Cú Chulainn art is really nice

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>>2632618

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>>2632620

>>2624260
>>2624265
>>2624258

It's like looking at a pile of severed cocks!
Those belonged to men, this isn't dignified!

>>2632618
>>2632620
>>2632625
Is Cu Chulainn a cute femboy warrior?

>>2627533
>>2627639

Tolkien hated allegory; all those similarities were coincidental or not meant to be taken seriously.

>>2627834

here's the thinkin' man

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>>2632655
I've always hated that way of depicting him. He's described in the myths as being short and dark, constantly sullen and sort of evil looking.

Pat Bolger wrote a comic about him called Hound and I think that's probably the best depiction of him. Pic related

>>2627608
where are they supposto be sailing to?

>>2631889
fuuuuuck

>>2627639

Wrong. In a letter to his publishers, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote that The Shire - home to the "little people" better known as hobbits - was "more or less a Warwickshire village of about the period of [Queen Victoria's] Diamond Jubilee" in 1897.

>>2631889
That could've become such a dope family heirloom.

>>2632768
They are Galatian mercs in Egypt