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Background imageGaelic Collection: Recruitment poster - British Military

Recruitment poster - British Military
The Royal Munster Fusiliers, 101st and 104th Foot. The Cork, Limerick, Kerry & Clare Regiment. A few smart, respectable young men wanted. Chromolithograph recruitment poster after R Simkin, 1896

Background imageGaelic Collection: Saint Columba with his horse

Saint Columba with his horse
Saint Columba (also known as Colum Cille, meaning dove of the church) with his horse. He was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk, thought to have introduced Christianity to the Picts

Background imageGaelic Collection: British Ballad, The Mermaid

British Ballad, The Mermaid
THE MERMAID. British ballad by Dr. John Leyden. The Gaelic story bears that Macphail of Colonsay was carried off by a mermaid

Background imageGaelic Collection: Music cover with Scottish harpist

Music cover with Scottish harpist
An unidentified music cover depicting a female Scottish harpist wearing a tartan shawl and medieval costume. The emblem at the top contains the Latin words, Nemo Me Impune Lacessit

Background imageGaelic Collection: Matthew Gunner Reilly, Gaelic and Association footballer

Matthew Gunner Reilly, Gaelic and Association footballer. 1890s

Background imageGaelic Collection: Flight of the Earl of Tyrone from Ireland

Flight of the Earl of Tyrone from Ireland
The Flight of the Earl of Tyrone (Hugh O Neill, c1550-1616), Irish Gaelic lord, who led a resistance to the English conquest of Ireland

Background imageGaelic Collection: Germanic bards. Colored engraving

Germanic bards. Colored engraving
Bard. Among the ancient Celts, a poet who composed panegyrics and songs of war, but then went on to describe the heroic or lyric poet of any age or country. Germanic bards. Colored engraving

Background imageGaelic Collection: Advert for Samuel Brothers boys outfits 1884

Advert for Samuel Brothers boys outfits 1884
Selection of clothing for boys at different ages. 1884

Background imageGaelic Collection: Donald Mackinnon

Donald Mackinnon
DONALD MACKINNON Scottish scholar and linguist, noted for his studies of Gaelic and indigenous Scottish speech : involved with social conditions of crofters. Date: 1839 - 1914

Background imageGaelic Collection: John Franc is Campbell

John Franc is Campbell
JOHN FRANCIS CAMPBELL of Islay, Scottish scholar of Gaelic. Date: 1822 - 1885

Background imageGaelic Collection: Sadler in balloon above Dublin, Ireland

Sadler in balloon above Dublin, Ireland

Background imageGaelic Collection: Music sheet cover for Erin Go Bragh Quadrille

Music sheet cover for Erin Go Bragh Quadrille
Music sheet cover for the Erin Go Bragh Quadrille by Charles d Albert (1809-1886), with a view of the Custom House Quay in Dublin, Ireland, at sunset

Background imageGaelic Collection: James Macpherson, Scottish writer and politician

James Macpherson, Scottish writer and politician
James Macpherson, Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the " translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems (their authenticity has been disputed)


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