Subject: gentleman aristocrat
Culture: Anglo-Irish Protestant
Setting: Protestant Ascendancy, Georgian Ireland 18thc
Object: smallsword
* Royal Armouries Museum > Self-Defence Gallery
"Robe sword
Irish, Dublin, about 1783
By Thomas Brady
(shamrock on a cross of St Patrick and motto QUIS SEPARABIT MDCCLXXXIII).
Instituted in February 1783, the fifteen knights were selected from Ireland's peers." ...