County Cork tartans and Arsenal tartan

[O'Callaghan]

Boy, are you able to read into my posts a lot more than is written on the page! I was taking about brehon law limiting the number of colours that could be worn by individuals in the various strata of classical Irish society. That was all. No comment about the Gaelic League, Oscar Wilde, the price of a pint, OR May 23rd, 1892 the date that members of the Gaelic League first got the loony idea to wear a green kilt. (Just kidding about that last bit.)

NO WHERE did I suggest when kilts were first worn in Ireland by the Irish as an expression of national identity.

WHAT I DID SAY was that wearing a solid colour was at least in keeping with the traditions of brehon law. That was it. End of message.

Then it wasn't you who said "even though the kilt never figured in Irish history"?

[macwilkin]

Then it wasn't you who said "even though the kilt never figured in Irish history"?

Not in antiquity, anyway -- certainly in the late 19th century when the kilt was adopted by both Irish nationalists and the Irish Regiments of the British Army (mainly pipers). Matt Newsome basically debunks the notion of "ancient" Irish kilts based on the work of H.F. McClintock.

Regards,

Todd