Irish Tattoos

Irish Tattoos posts cover designs rooted in Celtic and Irish symbols, plus the wider modern Irish-American tattoo scene. Articles look at the Celtic knotwork that has no clear beginning or end, the triskele and triple spiral from the Newgrange passage tomb, the Claddagh ring with its hands and crowned heart, the harp and the shamrock, the Trinity knot, the Ogham alphabet that turns up as small linear inscriptions and the long Christian cross designs from the high crosses at Monasterboice and Clonmacnoise. There are also notes on the difference between a respectful pre-Christian piece and a tourist trinket version.