Irish Green Men

Happy St. Patrick's Day -- Tis the Wearin' o' the Green or Green Man?
The famous Irish "Book of Kells" has numerous illustrations of men and beasts disgorging vegetation.  The Book of Kells, housed at Trinity college in Dublin, Ireland can now be seen online at this link: http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS58_003v

http://books.google.com/books?id=xJ3Ppecdh14C&printsec=frontcover

 

The above book has some terrific information  on Ireland and the Green Man.  See pages 211 and 212.  I've only had a chance to read portions of the book, but am looking forward to reading the complete volume in the next week.  The reviews are excellent.

As I think literally of the "Wearing o' the Green" my thoughts return to Zeleni Jurae of a previous
post: http://thegreenmanseries.blogspot.com/2012/09/zeleni-jurij.html

and 'green' costuming at: http://www.thegreenmanseries.blogspot.com/2012/10/green-man-masquerade-part-1.html

Slainte!