Claíomh
  • Home
  • Galleries
    • The Last Grasp film shoot Autumn 2010
    • 16th century Gaelic-Irish Warriors at the Irish National Heritage Park
    • The Flag film shoot October 2010
    • Claíomh Scrapbook >
      • 'Irish Independent', 17th September 2011
      • 'The Irish Times', 1st May 2007: Flight Of The Earls Special Supplement
      • 'Ireland's Equestrian Life & Country Times', September 1997
    • Lough Henney Helmet
  • Historical Era
    • Viking Age Ireland & the Anglo-Normans c.795-1250
    • Galloglass, Kern & Redshank c.1260-1618
    • 15th Century c. 1390-1504
    • 16th Century c. 1504-1607
    • Irish Confederate & Cromwellian Wars 1641-1652
    • 1916 & The Irish War of Independence
    • World War 1
  • Services
    • Media: Film, TV and Stage
    • Public Demonstrations & Education
    • Dave Swift Leather Workshop & Wood Craft
    • Sword-Fighting Displays
  • Events
  • Contact
  • Links
  • Blog

'Cloud of Hell': World War I Pop Up Museum & Portrayals by Claíomh

'Cloud of Hell' was formed as an offshoot of the Claidheamh Soluis project to investigate and to disseminate information about the material culture of soldiers fighting in World War 1 1914 to 1918 or, what was then known as, 'The Great War'. 

We limit the forces represented to Irish Regiments of the British Army and some British Regiments who played a significant role in Ireland during the Irish Revolutionary period. Thus far in our interpretative work formations have included the Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Sherwood Foresters and South Staffordshire Regiment. We also collect and portray a small number of German Imperial (Deutsches Heer) units including Sturmbattalion Nr. 5 (Rohr), and the 16th, 65th and the 73rd Infantry Regiments. Please see the pictures below for more info!

Our public outreach demos concentrate on the uniforms, field equipment and the very tough inhumane conditions that soldiers on all sides had to put up with: mud, rats, disease, artillery, mines, machine gun fire, flamethrowers, 'devil's rope' a.k.a. barbed wire and trench raidiing methodology.

The Cloud of Hell project is managed under the auspices of well known Irish medieval and early modern interpretive group Claíomh - please see https://www.facebook.com/ClaiomhLivingHistory for more info on the latter.

Like Claíomh is a self funded venture with funds raised constantly being reinvested into research and to keep and maintain the highest standards of reproduction uniforms, weaponry and everyday items possible.

Enquiries from researchers, media production companies, educationalists and other interested parties are welcome

British Army & Commonwealth

German Imperial Army

'A Cloud of Hell' by John Swift 1918

T'was such a scene as surely would delight
The hearts of Satan, and th'infernal crew;
Where men fell dazed or dead in gory fight,
To soak the fire swept soil in bloody dew.
Where bodies lay, dismembered and unknown,
Some not dead, but mute with battle crash,
Some left with voice, in agony to groan,
Or curse their God, their land, their bleeding flesh.
And from above the murdering spirits fly,
As though the hosts of heaven were the foe;
Foul hell seemed elevated to the sky,
Showering its fury on the earth below.

The above is published in the book 'John Swift An Irish Dissident' (1991) by John P. Swift p. 46

Services

Media Work
Education
Consultation
Events



About Us

Contact
Our Blog

Follow Us

Picture
All copyrights are reserved Claíomh © 2010-2018 - all graphics and photographs remain the property and intellectual property of the respective owners. The manipulation, retransmission or distribution of any art work, graphics and photographs is strictly forbidden without the original owners permission and credit given in any publication or website for the works used. Registered in Ireland No 240353.