Irish Celtic Costumes
Fun Halloween Costumes
Irish Celtic Costumes
Excellent Irish Historical Looking Costumes
Welcome to Irish Celtic Costumes, a place to find great Irish historical or St Patrick’s day costume Ideas for Halloween or any fancy dress party. Because of the grown interest in Celtic and Viking history and mythology, excellent selections of costume ideas exploded, making it nice and easy to find an unique look and stand out from the crowd. There are designs for Adults, male and female and also great costumes for children too. Be sure to check out the costume accessories too.
Irish Historical Costumes
With Halloween fast approaching, or for any fancy dress party as a matter of fact, the vast amount of excellent looking Irish Celtic costumes for adults and children is very exciting and easy to access from the likes of the super store BuyCostumes.com, and also others like Hollywood Toys and Costumes.com!
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Dressing up in a unique historical fashion will have you standing out from the crowd with these Irish style themed costumes. Looking for something different, why not take a look at the Fun Irish Costumes for something more wacky weird or wonderful, perfect costumes for Halloween or even Saint Patrick’s Day then head over to the Accessories department to make your costume truly unique.
Irish History
If we were to dig deep and explain Irish History, considering the first known Settlement was around 8000bc, we would need a computer with bigger memory and you would need a year to read it. instead we will touch on a few interesting subjects and leave a few links for people interested in further reading which I believe they would enjoy.
In Short…..
The first settlement was around 8000bc, where hunter gathers came from continental Europe. Later The Neolithic people arrived from the Iberian Peninsula and built some famous sites such as Newgrange.
With the depletion of the Bronze age in Ireland, spreading from the Alps, the Celtic Culture spread across Europe and arrived in Britain and Ireland around 500bc and within a couple of hundred years, the Bronze age had disappeared and the Celtic Culture spread around the whole Island.
This stayed this way until the arrival of Saint Patrick and other christian missionaries around mid-5th century and by 600 AD Ireland was now a christian country, and the Celtic Pagan Practice slowly disappeared or went underground.
From 700AD, with invasion after invasion by the Vikings, the monastic culture succumbed havoc and devastation but still proved strong enough to survive the invaders. The Vikings settled all round Ireland and set up the city of Dublin.
Vikings Invading Ireland
1n 1169 the Normans then invaded Ireland under the command of Richard De Clare, nick-named Strongbow, marking the beginning of 700 years of Norman and later English Rule in Ireland. Again, this becomes a huge section in the History of Ireland and for people interested I suggest you Go here.
Not until 1922, after The War Of Independence, Ireland became The Free State and then the Republic in 1948 with the 6 Northern counties still been controversially part of Britain.
For Further Reading
Go here to read about Irish mythology.
Go here for great stories of Irish folklore with The Tuatha De Danann.
For an in-dept, enjoyable and easy to use site on Irish History.
For a nice relaxing and interesting read, go here for Excellent Irish Poetry.
On Celtic Culture in Europe
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