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>>1767 Anglo-Irish gentleman
>>>sword
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
This sword bears the insignia of the Order of St Patrick 
(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." ...