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Article

Publication Date

2024

Abstract

This author has written elsewhere context, value, power and significance of blood and bloody markings on textile artefacts – cloth, clothing, flags, banners, menstrual pads, birth- stained sheets, blood-marked bandages, death-stained prison blankets. These have become either revered and roseate relics, as key to the Irish nation's history as those of sanctified saints, or reddish symbols redolent of national abjection, revulsion and shame (see also Volume 8, Politics and Power).

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The Red Hand/s (Lámh Dhearg) of Ulster and other bloody Irish flags... in Checinska, C. et al (co-ed.) Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles, Volume 4 (Colour), 2024.

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