looking for information about Ireland

[Druzhina]

Here are some comtemporary images:
Two Warriors arrest Jesus on the Cross of Muiredach, Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland, 10th century
Bronze Crucifixion Plaque, Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland, 10th-11th century
Cumdach of the Stowe Missal, Sinister side, Ireland, 1025–52AD
The Breac Moedhóc, a bronze Irish house-shrine from the 11th or 12th century
Shrine of St. Manchán, of Manghan, c. 1130, Boher church, Co. Offaly, Ireland
 . 9th-12th Century Irish Axeman by Ian Heath based on St Manchan's Shrine
Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) by Giraldus Cambrensis in British Library Ms. Royal 13 B VIII
Centaur, Cormac's Chapel, Cashel, Ireland, late 12th century
13th Century
Topographia Hibernica and Expugnatio Hibernica (Topography of Ireland & Conquest of Ireland) by Giraldus Cambrensis in NLI Ms. 700
Topographia Hibernica (Topography of Ireland) by Giraldus Cambrensis in Bodleian Library Ms. Laud. Misc. 720
 . Irish Warriors, 12th-13th century, in Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300 by Ian Heath based on 'Topography of Ireland', 'Chapter House Liber A' & 'the Shrine of St. Manchán, of Manghan'
'Irish foot-soldier' Chapter House Liber A, London, England, late 13th century
14th-15th Centuries
Drawings of a cavalryman from the Magauran Duanaire, 14th century
The Burke Galloglaich effigy at Glinsk in County Galway, late-14th century
Lough Henney Helmet, late 14th-early 15th century

A miniature of MacMorogh, the Irish chieftain, coming to confer with the Earl of Gloucester, 1399
 . Irish Kern, 14th-15th Centuries by Ian Heath
 . Irish Horseman c1400 by Ian Heath
 . Irish Chieftain, Art Oge Macmurrough Kavanagh, 14th-15th Centuries, by Ian Heath
Effigy at Oronsay Priory, 14th or 15th century
 . Gallóglaich, 14th-15th Centuries by Ian Heath
Drawing of the remains of mural decoration in Holycross Abbey, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, late 14th-early 15th Centuries.
The tomb of Felim O'Connor (d.1265) at Roscommon Abbey
 . Islesmen or Gallóglaich, 12th-14th Centuries, in Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300 by Ian Heath
Drawings on the wall of Abbey Knockmoy, Co. Galway, Ireland, 15th Century
15th-century carving of a warrior displaying the arms of Butler, Jerpoint Abbey, County Kilkenny

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

[dm]

The links are superb and wish someone would make a few 28mm miniatures in mail/ armour for the later period and the is helmet from Loch Henney would look fnatastic on a champion/chieftan/warlord.
Putting together a 28mm Irish warband to fight my Anglo/ Normans at present and using Crusader miniatures but most are javelin armed and it would be nice to see a few miniatures with long handle axes in the warband but might use some from the Gripping Beast plastic Dark Age sets

[Cubs]

Gripping Beast do Irish too. Their website is a horror to search, but you'll find suitable figures in their 'Scots & Scots Irish', 'Dark Age Irish' and 'Norse Gael (Hiberno Norse)' ranges.

[Arlequín]

Myself, I would be looking at Claymore Castings too if I was looking for figures for Medieval Ireland.  

[commissarmoody]

Myself, I would be looking at Claymore Castings too if I was looking for figures for Medieval Ireland.  

I chated with the folks from clamore castings and they said that they will also be doing the "Scottish Caterans" in a few months, the Hobelars are to be released in the second half of the year.
I am thinking the Caterans can be used for some of the better equipped Kerns, ceitherne, fianna or what have you.