In addition to the links below, I would like to add this image, which is the style I personally use for my early Irish Leine, introspective of neckline styles and exact sleeve length (I prefer close to the wrist and extra long).
Medieval Irish Clothing Bibliography
Roughly
sorted by usefulness and quality
General
info:
Early
Gaelic Dress: An Introduction
Finnacan
Dub’s paper on the subject—as mentioned, this is one of my favourites.
Clothing
of the Ancient Celts: Ireland, ca. 5th-10th Centuries CE
Overview
of some of the characteristics of Irish Clothing of this period.
Insular
Dress in Early Medieval Ireland
A
paper by Maria Fitzgerald examining styles of dress portrayed in art work from
Book of Kells era. Includes a few
tidbits from the laws, as well.
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Descriptions from Tain Bo Cualgne
A
list of clothing descriptions from the Ulster Cycle.
The
Irish Woman’s Dilemma - What Do I Wear?
A
document divided into three period sections (the middle one being not
particularly useful, imho), covering the basics of women’s Irish dress. It again covers the basics, but does have a
couple new things or points of view.
Gael
Agus Gall... kit guidelines
Extrapolations
of Hiberno-Norse period clothing from artwork from the period.
Gerald
of Wales: Norman views on Ireland and the Irish
A
partial translation of The Topography of Ireland. It contains a few notes on late 12th
Century Irish clothing, as through the eyes of an Englishman. There are also a couple of the images from
this book, where you can see that the clothing is nothing really new, but has
close fitting, extra long sleeves which are rucked up on the wrist.
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/topography_ireland.pdf
is the full translation of The Topography of Ireland and has about the same
information as above (minus the pictures), plus a footnote which primarily
describes the brat. The portion on
clothing begins at page 68.
Celtic
Clothing
An
article from House Barra on 5th Century Irish Clothing—giving, once
again, an overview with some information on the colours.
Costume
in County Clare
An
article By Mairéad Dunleavy on Irish clothing.
Only a few paragraphs are applicable in this case, but provide some
interesting points.
11th
Century Irish Women’s clothing discussion
Gives
the author's overview of the layers. Not
too bad, but there are more useful sites out there.
Irish
Kit Guide for Early Christian Period
Covering
approximately 450 to 800 AD, it is another overview which touches on some
points and subjects I have not often seen before—the cochall for instance. I would take some of the information here
with a grain of salt, however.
A
(much) smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland. Chapter XVIII - Dress and Personal Adornment
- Dress
Very
much out of date, although this web version has a discussion by Kass (of
reconstructing history) on the “Irish kilt”.
Recreating:
Echna’s Celtic Clothing Page
Again,
fairly basic overview with an eye towards making basic Irish clothing. Good starter site, but should be used as an
accompaniment to other, more in depth pages.
Brat:
Weaving
an 11th Century Irish Brat
A
Florilegium article documenting the process of creating the shaggy cloak of the
Irish.
The
Early Gaelic Dress, and Echna’s cloak page have some information on wearing the
brat.
Accessories and Hygiene:
A
Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland: Dress and Personal Adornment
This
link covers personal hygiene, including hair/beards, and the marks of
aristocracy. Written in 1906, but the
information in this portion may still be good—I haven’t seen anything to refute
it, anyways.
Celtic
Looks
Very
general, basic article on recreating—however, there is some good information on
Jewelry and personal hygiene.
Assorted:
Celtic
Color and Clothing Traditions
Scroll
down to page three, where there is an article on the subject of allowed colours
for various ranks, using literary sources.
Irish Viking Silk and their place in Hiberno-Norse Society
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1426&context=tsaconf
Remains of silk found in Viking age Norse settlements in Ireland. The last page includes a diagram of the Dublin cap (women's headwear).
Irish Viking Silk and their place in Hiberno-Norse Society
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1426&context=tsaconf
Remains of silk found in Viking age Norse settlements in Ireland. The last page includes a diagram of the Dublin cap (women's headwear).
Glossary
of Irish Clothing Terms
A
list of Irish terms relating to clothing, production thereof, and materials.
Footewear
of the Middle Ages
Marc
Carlson’s webpage on period shoes. If
you click the link for Dark Ages shoes, it will take you to the Lucas Types,
among others.
For late period Irish, take a look at my article, 16th Century Irish Dress
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