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Active History-lovers wanted

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  • 08-12-2005 7:00pm
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    valen
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭


    I'm part of a Dublin-based historical reenactment group, and we are
    currently looking for new members. If you, or someone you know, has an
    interest in on or more of the following:

    Martial arts
    History
    Crafts
    Teaching
    Travelling
    Partying

    Let me know! We teach spear, sword, axe, polearms, archery, javelins
    & hand to hand combat, using slightly safer versions of medieval
    techniques (like no stabbing in the face, but the belly is fair
    game!). Though there was someone injured with a trebuchet-launched
    turnip this year....

    To give an idea of what we are about...

    Heavy Irish Infantry, as mercenaries in England, taking a fort:
    http://www.livinghistory.ie/~doug/temple/web/28.html

    Early Christian Irish & Irish Vikings trading in Denmark:
    http://livinghistory.ie/~valen/roskilde/web/

    A motley crew of irish light infantry, fighting for English:
    http://www.livinghistory.ie/~valen/r...ey/web/28.html

    Irish Viking Craftspeople in Northern Italy
    http://www.livinghistory.ie/~valen/ispra/web/1.html

    Headbanging to hardcore scottish pipe & drum bands in Tewksbury, England:
    http://www.livinghistory.ie/~valen/tewksbury/web/5.html

    We've had Irish, Scots, Polish, Germans, French in our group - as we
    are a mercenary group, we encourage people to research & dress like
    those of their homelands. When we go abroad, we've fought with mongols
    agains germans, with celts against romans. And amongst each other, of
    course. Everyone has a trade (I make chainmail, leather boots, and
    mead), everyone has a hundred friends. It's the best hobby in the
    world.

    If you are interested, let me know.

    John


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