Irish Brehons and Filidhs or judges, of the Roman era, with Irish wolf-hound. Brehon in cloak, coat, pantaloons, biorrad (cap), carrying laws engraved on bark. With Filidh, assistant judge, similarly attired. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.

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