IRISH SWORDSMANSHIP. FENCING AND DUELING IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY IRELAND - Tecno-Libro

During the eighteenth century, ireland was Europe s wild west, where the sword was the constant companion of every gentleman, soldier, and rogue. Here, in the dimly lit rooms of Dublin s popular coffee and chocolate houses, among its public parks and cloistered back yards, fearsome duelists such as George Robert Fighting Fitzgerald, Alexander Buck English, and Captain David Tyger Roche fought for life and honor with the sword and pistol. Here, countless swordsmen colorfully dressed in ruffled silk stained the ground of St Stephen s Green with blood, and celebrated their survival over glasses of cherry brandy. This is the story of eighteenth century ireland s sword culture of its renowned fencing schools, its famed swordsmen, its female gladiators, and its notorious armed gangs such as the Bucks, Cherokees, and Pinking Dindies, who terrorized the people of Dublin with the small-sword, knife, falchion, and shillelagh, a