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  2. Sheela na gig - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Kakiniit - Wikipedia

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    An Inuit woman in 1945 with traditional face tattoos. Kakiniit (Inuktitut: ᑲᑭᓐᓃᑦ [kɐ.ki.niːt]; sing. kakiniq, ᑲᑭᓐᓂᖅ) are the traditional tattoos of the Inuit of the North American Arctic. The practice is done almost exclusively among women, with women exclusively tattooing other women with the tattoos for various purposes.

  4. Yidiiltoo - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally girls of the Hän Gwich’in receive their first tattoos between the ages of 12 and 14, often at first menstruation, as a passage ritual. [1] [3] [2] European and British missionaries of the 1800s and 1900s banned the traditional practice, along with other cultural traditions. [3] [2] [4]

  5. Tattooed lady - Wikipedia

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    Some women use tattoos as a fashionable sex-symbol, starting with small, discreet tattoos and piercings when they are young, to satisfy heterosexual men. Many of these same women eventually evolve their tattoos to larger pieces with more meaning, often to help drive a cause or make a statement about an important topic.

  6. Ancient Celtic women - Wikipedia

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    Other female figures from Celtic mythology include the weather witch Cailleach (Irish for 'nun,' 'witch,' 'the veiled' or 'old woman') of Scotland and Ireland, the Corrigan of Brittany who are beautiful seductresses, the Irish Banshee (woman of the Otherworld) who appears before important deaths, the Scottish warrior women Scáthach, Uathach ...

  7. Kathleen Ni Houlihan - Wikipedia

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    Kathleen Ni Houlihan, Abbey Theatre, 1916 Scene From Yeats and Gregory's play, Cathleen Ní Houlihan, circa 1912 production. Kathleen Ni Houlihan (Irish: Caitlín Ní Uallacháin, literally, "Kathleen, daughter of Houlihan") is a mythical symbol and emblem of Irish nationalism found in literature and art, sometimes representing Ireland as a personified woman.

  8. Category:Women of medieval Ireland - Wikipedia

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    13th-century Irish women (14 P) 14th-century Irish women (1 C, 15 P) 15th-century Irish women (11 P) F. Female saints of medieval Ireland (32 P)

  9. Coat of arms of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The design of the harp used by the modern Irish state is based on the Brian Boru harp, a late-medieval Gaelic harp now in Trinity College Dublin. [note 1] The design is by an English sculptor, Percy Metcalfe. Metcalfe's design was in response to a competition held by the state to design Irish coinage, which was to start circulation in December ...

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