Costume of the Pagan Irish in the post-Roman era

Costume of the Pagan Irish in the post-Roman era. The subject is an initiation ceremony into the Helio-arkite religion. Irish Druid priest hydramus, minister of the sea, in white stole, and herald bard in striped trousers (truise), tunic (cotaigh), and striped hood (cochal), with baby and Irish wolf-hound. In the background, a gowlan temple and barr-chean pillar. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821

19th Century Ancient History Aquatint Bard Celt Charles Hamilton Smith Havell Herald Initiation Pagan Samuel Meyrick

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