Carpet Page Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
A carpet page is a page of pure ornament, looking rather like an oriental carpet, with brilliant colours, active lines and complex patterns. They are commonly found in books in the Insular style, that is, the illuminated Celtic manuscripts produced in Irish and British monasteries from 600 to 900...
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A Cottage Near Roundwood Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
The Irish watercolour painter John Faulkner was born in Dublin and studied drawing and fine art painting at the Royal Dublin School. His precocious talent led him to begin exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in 1852 when he was only 17. He was elected an RHA academician at 26 and also...
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Courting Peacocks Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
The image of the peacock can be found in many cultures and traditions. The early Celts looked to the beasts of the earth, sky and sea in an attempt to understand life and believed animals taught them how to live in harmony with Nature itself. The peacock appeared as a symbol of beauty, paradise,...
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Fuchsia Faerie Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
The hedgerows of West Cork in Ireland are lined with this decorative evergreen shrub with its delicate, pendulous flowers which are borne in profusion throughout the summer and autumn months. A common sight in West Cork is a road or a boreen lined with these striking plants that can reach up to...
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Green Man Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
The Green Man is a motif found in many cultures around the world. The representation of a face surrounded by or made of leaves; it is interpreted primarily as a symbol of rebirth, representing the cycle of growth each spring. Perhaps a fertility God, the beneficent spirit of vegetation or a tree...
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The Lady of Shalott Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
This masterpiece shows a scene from Lord Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem of the same name, in which the poet describes the plight of a young woman isolated under an undisclosed curse in a tower near King Arthur's Camelot. According to legend, the lady was forbidden to look directly at reality;...
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Lincoln Cathedral Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
The Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln, or St. Mary s Cathedral, is a historic Anglican cathedral in Lincoln, England, and seat of the Bishop of Lincoln in the Church of England. With its 160 meter high tower, it was reputedly the tallest building in the world for 249 years...
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Ophelia Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
Ophelia was the daughter of Polonius from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Although loved by Hamlet, Ophelia ignores and eventually betrays him. Then descending into madness by the death of her father, she is depicted here singing before she drowns in a river. Ophelia's pose (her open arms and upwards...
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Passion Flowers Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
The Blue Passion Flower (Passiflora caerulea), is a vine native to South America. It is popular with gardeners because of its intricate, scented flowers which attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. The unusual shape of the flowers has led to it being associated in Christian symbolism with...
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Red Dragon Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
In the Welsh story of Lludd and Llefelys, the Red Dragon fights with an invading White Dragon. His shrieks cause women to miscarry, animals to perish and plants to become barren. Lludd, king of Britain, goes to his wise brother Llefelys in France for advice. Llefelys tells him to dig a pit in the...
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Sainte Chapelle Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
La Sainte-Chapelle - The Holy Chapel - is a Gothic chapel on the le de la Cit in the heart of Paris, France. It was built between 1244 and 1248 and is perhaps the high point of the full tide of the rayonnante period in Gothic architecture. The Sainte-Chapelle, the palatine chapel in the courtyard...
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San Francesco Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
The Papal Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscan Order, in Assisi, Italy, the birthplace of St. Francis. The burial place of St. Francis, the basilica is one of the most important places of Christian...
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St Brendan the Navigator Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
St. Brendan was born in 486 AD and founded a monastery at Clonfert, County Galway. Brendan travelled widely; he was said to have set sail with a handful of monks on a perilous seven-year quest across the Atlantic in a boat of wood and oxhide. En route, legend tells us that they were raised up on...
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St Patrick Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
Patrick, who became the patron saint of Ireland, was born into a Roman ruling family in 390 AD Britain. At the age of 14 he was enslaved by a gang of Irish raiders and spent the next 6 years as a shepherd on a mountain top in County Armagh. A vision of ships persuaded him to escape. He later...
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Sunshine & Showers—Home in Killarney Tailten Games & Puzzles
Set in the McGillycuddy Reeks on the Ring of Kerry in Ireland, this scene depicts typical rural life of the time. James Richard Marquis was a pupil of the Royal Dublin Society's School in 1847 and then afterwards practised as a landscape artist. He started exhibiting at the Royal Hibernian...
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Tara Tailten Games & Puzzles
Tara is a collection of multi award-winning games steeped in the ancient legends of Ireland's Celtic heritage and royal past. Standing atop the Hill of Tara and contemplating the conjoined ringforts of Forradh and Teach Chormac, the games of Sacred Hill and High Kings of Tara were born. These...
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Puzzle Tailten Games & Puzzles
A stunning interpretation of the classic Christmas song in Rachel's inimitable style. It was illegal to be a Catholic in England from 1558 to 1829, so this was written as a catechism song to help young Catholics learn the basics of their faith. Since it sounded like rhyming nonsense, Catholics...
