Clan Currie Collection

Clan Currie takes its name as an anglicized form of MacMhuirich, a family of Gaelic bards, lawyers and physicians who claimed descent from the Irish poet Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh, who by tradition fled Ireland in the early thirteenth century after killing a steward.…

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About Clan Currie

Clan Currie takes its name as an anglicized form of MacMhuirich, a family of Gaelic bards, lawyers and physicians who claimed descent from the Irish poet Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh, who by tradition fled Ireland in the early thirteenth century after killing a steward. For centuries the family served as hereditary poets first to the MacDonald Lords of the Isles and later to the MacDonalds of Clanranald, with members also recorded as harpers, clergy and genealogists; Niall MacMhuirich (d. c.1726) was the last fully trained master

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Modern or Ancient?

Same pattern, different dyes. Modern uses deep, saturated colours; Ancient uses the softer tones associated with natural dyes.