Irish Tattoos

astonaidan

Ok m thinking of getting a tattoo on my arm or leg and I wanted to get it in a Irish Tribal style just wondering does anyone know where I could get some examples of this online

Jagle

irish tribal? really please dont

nothing worse then tribal

astonaidan

wow I always thought celtic designs were something irish people should get done if we were getting tattoos

Jagle

celtic and tribal are two different things.

and alot of celtic stuff can look very crappy

Just Like Heaven

astonaidan wrote: »

wow I always thought celtic designs were something irish people should get done if we were getting tattoos

No mate we're definitely under no obligation.

Atavan-Halen

There's lots of different tribal, like generic flash type tribal



And then something like maori tribal



Then samoan tribal



For something Irish, you'd be looking at things be similar to this

astonaidan

fewtinsoffroth wrote: »

No mate we're definitely under no obligation.

I think You miss understood, I meant if we were getting a tribal tattoo makes sense for it to be irish than lets say a Maori one which has nothing to do with us or our heritage, I wasnt talking about general tattoos

AineThePiercer

I think what they are trying to tell you is there is no such thing as "Irish Tribal".

astonaidan

really I thought with our celtic heritage wed have a some form of tribal tattoos

AineThePiercer

No unfortunately, unless you go back to designs from newgrange and other old irish structures/books

astonaidan

Well dam that there goes my plan for something traditional

Star Lord

Other than Celtic knotwork, or the Newgrange entrance stone style patterns, then there's nothing that I can think of.

Jimmy Bottlehead

astonaidan wrote: »

Well dam that there goes my plan for something traditional

To the best of my knowledge, tattoos aren't traditional in Irish culture.

You could commemorate a 700 year period in Irish history by getting a union jack, though....

astonaidan

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »

To the best of my knowledge, tattoos aren't traditional in Irish culture.

You could commemorate a 700 year period in Irish history by getting a union jack, though....

Tempting but I think Ill have to pass, Looks like itll be a celtic cross, Its times like this I wish I was from New Zealand

bobbysands81

astonaidan wrote: »

Tempting but I think Ill have to pass, Looks like itll be a celtic cross, Its times like this I wish I was from New Zealand

Click on the link below mo chara, plenty of fantastic looking stuff that might be up your alley:

http://www.google.ie/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&q=%22Celtic+tribal+tattoo%22&gbv=2&oq=%22Celtic+tribal+tattoo%22&aq=f&aqi=g2g-S2&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1203l5312l0l5703l22l18l0l0l0l0l282l1878l9.8.1l18l0

FoxyVixen

Or if you're looking for old age Irish heritage, why not get a bit of writing done in the Ogham style?

Link!

Massive size link there, but you get the idea. Research it though and make sure you place it correctly. Ogham doesn't read left to right

Teangalad

Or you can have a look here , I am hoping to have a a halve sleeve of Celtic work down and this site has been very helpful for I ideas.

http://www.aon-celtic.com/free/cfreewarecliparts.html

endacl

Get a leprechaun. With a hat on. Smoking a pipe through gritted teeth. In a boxing pose preferably. Lettering is optional, but should read "Fightin' Irish", or similar. This is the type of tattoo the aul' keltick cheeftanns used to proudly display.