• The Irish Sword is the official journal of the Military History Society of Ireland containing articles on the military history of Ireland, book reviews...
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    Swords (Irish: Sord [sˠoːɾˠd̪ˠ] or Sord Cholmcille) in County Dublin, the county town of the local government area of Fingal, is a large suburban town...
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  • The Irish Sword of State (1660), a ceremonial sword of the Kingdom of Ireland. An earlier Irish sword of state was lost after 1581. Displayed at the Jewel...
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    ceremony. The 17th-century Irish Sword of State was held by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (a viceroy) prior to Ireland's independence from the UK in 1922...
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    related to the phonetically similar Caladbolg, a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrowing of Caledfwlch from the Irish Caladbolg...
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    The Sword of Light or Claidheamh Soluis (Old Irish; modern Irish: Claíomh Solais [ˌklˠiːw ˈsˠɔlˠəʃ]) is a trope object that appears in a number of Irish...
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  • Migration Period sword, and only in the High Middle Ages, developed into the classical arming sword with crossguard. The word sword continues the Old English...
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    Caladbolg (category Sword stubs)
    Caladcholg, "hard blade") is the sword of Fergus mac Róich from the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Fergus calls his sword by that name in Táin Bó Cúailnge...
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    Gladius (redirect from Mainz sword)
    "sword" (whence modern Welsh cleddyf "sword", modern Breton klezeff, Old Irish claideb/Modern Irish claidheamh [itself perhaps a loan from Welsh]; the...
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  • Fragarach (redirect from Sword of Air)
    In Irish mythology, Fragarach (or Freagarthach), known as "The Whisperer", "The Answerer", or "The Retaliator", was the sword of Nuada, the first high...
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    The Migration Period sword was a type of sword popular during the Migration Period and the Merovingian period of European history (c. 4th to 7th centuries...
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    Katana (redirect from Samurai sword)
    sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Developed later than the...
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  • also known as the Sword of Mercy, is a ceremonial sword used at the coronation of British kings and queens. One of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom...
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    swordstick or cane-sword is a cane containing a hidden blade or sword. The term is typically used to describe European weapons from around the 18th century...
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    Bronze Age swords appeared from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea and Aegean regions, as a further development of the dagger. They were replaced...
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    this sword from literature and the actual British regalia sword Curtana aka Sword of Mercy. Galatine, the name of the sword given to Sir Gawain by the Lady...
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  • of Evil's Bane", the "Sword of Resurrection", the "Sword that Seals the Darkness" and the "Sacred Sword". It was introduced in the 1991 action-adventure...
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    Enniskillen Castle (category Regimental museums in Northern Ireland)
    Enniskillen at the outbreak of the Nine Years War, 1593-5, The Irish Sword, xxx, no. 121 (2016), pp 241-9 Fermanagh County Museum - official site The Inniskillings...
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    O'Neill. The battle marked an escalation in the war, as the English Crown greatly bolstered its military forces in Ireland, and many Irish lords who...
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    days. Members of the Irish Volunteers, led by schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James...
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  • Swords made of iron (as opposed to bronze) appear from the Early Iron Age (c. 12th century BC),[citation needed] but do not become widespread before the...
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  • Swords is a three-piece alternative rock band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 2010. The band have released two albums to date. The band members are Diane...
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    The O'Neill dynasty (Irish: Ó Néill) are a lineage of Irish Gaelic origin that held prominent positions and titles in Ireland and elsewhere. As kings...
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    Rapper sword (also known as short sword dance) is a variation of sword dance unique to Northumberland and County Durham. It emerged from the pit villages...
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  • Keiichi Sigsawa and illustrated by Kouhaku Kuroboshi. The series is a spin-off of Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online series. A manga adaptation by Tadadi Tamori...
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    Marcus Beresford, 7th Baron Decies (category Irish people of American descent)
    "François Thurot and the French attack at Carrickfergus, 1759-60", The Irish Sword, X (41), 255-74. "Ireland in French Strategy during the American War of...
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    Claymore (redirect from Scottish sword)
    "great sword") is either the Scottish variant of the late medieval two-handed sword or the Scottish variant of the basket-hilted sword. The former is...
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  • King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a 2017 epic fantasy action-adventure film directed by Guy Ritchie who co-wrote the film with Joby Harold and Lionel...
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    The Ulfberht swords are a group of about 170 medieval swords found primarily in Northern Europe, dated to the 9th to 11th centuries, with blades inlaid...
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    Record Eighteenth-Century Ireland Ériu The Irish Sword, formerly Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland Journal of the Galway Archaeological and...
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