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The Royal Navy's records indicate the name of the ship refers to an "Irish female sprite". [6] Freitag discovered that "gig" was a Northern English slang word for a woman's genitals. [10] A similar word in modern Irish slang gigh (pronounced) also exists, further confusing the possible origin of the name.
Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish musical ensemble, formed in 2004 for a one-time event held in Dublin, Ireland. They started touring internationally as a group after multiple airings on PBS helped to boost the group's popularity. [1] [2] Celtic Woman released their debut album Celtic Woman in 2004 and
Also covered by the term is the visual art of the Celtic Revival (on the whole more notable for literature) from the 18th century to the modern era, which began as a conscious effort by Modern Celts, mostly in the British Isles, to express self-identification and nationalism, and became popular well beyond the Celtic nations, and whose style is ...
Máiréad Nesbitt (/ ˈ m ɔːr eɪ d / MOR-ayd, [citation needed] Irish: [ˈmˠaːɾʲeːd̪ˠ]) is an Irish musician. She is known for performing Celtic and classical music and being the former fiddler for Celtic Woman.
A shamrock. A shamrock is a type of clover, used as a symbol of Ireland. Saint Patrick, one of Ireland's patron saints, is said to have used it as a metaphor for the Christian Holy Trinity. [1] The name shamrock comes from Irish seamróg ([ˈʃamˠɾˠoːɡ]), which is the diminutive of the Irish word seamair and simply means "young clover". [2]
It includes Irish painters that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "21st-century Irish women painters" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
In British Celtic law, women had in many respects (for instance marriage law) a better position than Greek and Roman women. [26] According to Irish and Welsh law, attested from the Early Middle Ages , a woman was always under the authority of a man, first her father, then her husband, and, if she was widowed, her son.
The arms of Ireland are a gold, silver-stringed Celtic harp (cláirseach) on an azure field.. As a region, Northern Ireland has not been granted a coat of arms, but the Government of Northern Ireland was granted arms in 1924, which have not been in use since the suspension of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1972, which was abolished the following year.