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Aoife submits to Strongbow who has his foot on a broken Celtic cross. Dejected Irish harpist. The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife Daniel MacLise, 1854 The recurrent theme is that the Anglo-Irish relationship is a forced marriage. Click on picture for symbols of oppression.
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Aoife submits to Strongbow who has his foot on a broken Celtic cross. Dejected Irish harpist. The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife Daniel MacLise, 1854 The recurrent theme is that the Anglo-Irish relationship is a forced marriage. Click on picture for symbols of oppression MacLise was sympathetic to the Young Irelanders who sought freedom from Britain in the mid-19th century. EXIT