Irish historical re-enactment company. Check the gallery section. Lots of good pictures of sparth axes and claymores. Note the types of cross on the swords. Very Irish.

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Forgot about this one.  AA085 - Arms & Armor Irish Sword - $930.00

The ring hilted swords with exposed tang are the only weapon type commonly associated with Ireland for the periods in question, and even those original examples are scarce.

It's like saying, "What weapon is most associated with New Jersey?"  They fed off neighboring technologies an influences, but not much was "their own."

If you said Scotland, England, France, Germany... my God, the options are all over.  Ireland?  Jesus... I've got years of pouring over weapons sales and data on my brain and I'm coming up dry.  From the late 12th century, Ireland was always somebody's bitch, so they didn't have the ability to project a force or military identity.  It's actually bothering me that I can't come up with something interesting (Like the Scots and the Lochaber Axe or the Swiss with the Lucerne Hammer.  There's no "Dublin DickSmasher").  We go from Celts to Viking to Norman/English influence to... hell... WW1.    There's antique art references to doloire axes but, hell, those were all over Western Europe... they aren't uniquely Irish.

You're in a pickle, looking for something uniquely Irish that isn't a Ren-Faire, substandard repro.

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