Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Picture of Bishop Asicus Kings and princes, indeed, were great patrons of art. Not only did they require jewels, brooches, pins, beautifully wrought swords and daggers for themselves and their friends, but, in Christian times, they presented chalices, bells, crucifixes, shrines and the like to monasteries and churches: the Irish, however, had attained to [...]

Above: Speciment of gold found at Moghain Cuchulainn wore a gold-thread shirt, body-vest bordered with gold, silver and white bronze, tunic fringed with a long pin of white silver, gold-enchased, green mantle silver-clasped upon his breast ; around his neck a hundred linklets of red gold with pendants. His shield had a pure white silver rim, [...]