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TATTOO DESIGNS & SYMBOLS - IRISH TATTOOS
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Other symbols of Ireland are St. Patrick, leprechauns, the harp, the shamrock and the four-leaf clover. See also: Celtic Tattoos Both the Irish and the Scots are fond of the Claddagh.
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Irish Tattoos -
The ancient peoples of the British Isles tended to have great
mobility, particularly in the north were trade and commerce and no
small amount of
competition for lands and power meant there was frequent traffic
between what is now Ireland and Scotland. Both Ireland and Scotland
bore the brunt of
numerous outside invasions, and the indigenous peoples absorbed or
were pushed aside by succeeding waves of Celts, Gauls, Romans,
Vikings from both
Norway and Denmark, Saxons and Normans, who for all intents and
purposes were French Vikings.
In between invasions, the Irish people were also converted from a
Shamanistic belief system of animism, where animals, plants, trees
and even specific
places were thought to have spirits and the Earth itself was a
divine being, by traveling monks to Christianity and Catholicism.
Despite the
conversion, there has long been a magical tradition in Irish
culture, a belief in 'the little people', sprites and leprechauns.
