Some period illustrations of late 16th century Irish:
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/MacSweeny_Galloglaich.htm - MacSweeny
Gallóglaich, from Goghe's Map of 1567.
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Corte_beschryvinghe.htm - Irish
Men and Women, by Lucas d'Heere, about 1575
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Deheere-81.htm - Irish
as they stand accoutred being at the service of the late King Henry, by
Lucas d'Heere
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Abraham_de_Bruyn-Irish.htm - Irish
rider, published by Abraham de Bruyn, 1575-7
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/de_Burgo.htm - Anglo-Irish
from the de Burgo manuscript, Trinity College Dublin MS 1440,
c.1578
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Derricke_The_Image_of_Irelande-1581.htm - Irish
and English Soldiers in Derricke's The Image of Irelande,
(1581)
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Galloglaich_on_Dublin_charter.htm - A
Gallóglaich in Elizabeth I's Charter to Dublin, 1581-82
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/07_Irish.htm - Irish army of the 16th Century by George Gush
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Irish_soldier_by_Caspar_Rutz.htm - Irish
soldier serving on the continent by Casper Rutz, 1586
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Captain_Thomas_Lee_by_Marcus_Gheeraerts_1594.htm - Portrait
of Captain Thomas Lee, Queen's Kern, by Marcus Gheeraerts, 1594
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/Taking_of_the_Earl_of_Ormonde.htm - Map
of the Taking of the Earl of Ormonde in anno 1600
Druzhina
http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Irish.htm - Illustrations of Irish Costume and Soldiers
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http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ottoman/Janissary.htm - Ottoman Janissaries.htm , http://warfare.altervista.org/Persia/nadir_bio.htm - Nadir Shah Afshar of Persia
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