NEFJ GOLD P CLADDAGH IRISH LOVE LOYALTY FRIENDSHIP BRACELET VTG HIGH END JEWELRY

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YELLOW GOLD CLADDAGH SIZEABLE BRACELET
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The
Claddagh ring
(Irish:
fáinne Chladaigh
) is a traditional Irish ring which represents love, loyalty, and friendship (the hands represent friendship, the heart represents love, and the crown represents loyalty). The design and customs associated with it originated in the Irish fishing village of the same name in Galway. The ring, as currently known, was first produced in the 17th century.
The Claddagh ring belongs to a group of European finger rings called
"
fede
rings"
.The name "
fede
" derives from the Italian phrase
mani in fede
("hands [joined] in faith" or "hands [joined] in loyalty"). These rings date from Roman times, when the gesture of clasped hands was a symbol of pledging vows, and they were used as
engagement
wedding
rings in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Fede
rings are distinctive in that the bezel is cut or cast to form two clasped hands that symbolize faith and trust or
"plighted troth"
The Claddagh ring is a variation on the
fede
ring,
while the hands, heart, and crown motif was used in England in the early 18th century.
Towards the end of the 20th century there was an explosion of interest in the Claddagh Ring, both as jewelry and as an icon of Irish identity. In recent years it has been embellished with interlace designs and combined with other Celtic and Irish symbols, but this is a very recent phenomenon that corresponds with the worldwide expansion in popularity of the Claddagh ring as an emblem of Irish identity.
Origins
Galway
has produced Claddagh rings continuously since at least 1700, but the name "Claddagh ring" was not used before the 1830s.
Although there are various myths and legends around the origin of the Claddagh ring, it is almost certain that it originated in or close to the small fishing village of
Claddagh
in Galway.
As an example of a maker,
Bartholomew Fallon
was a 17th-century Irish
goldsmith
, based in Galway, who made Claddagh rings until circa 1700. His name first appears in the will of one Dominick Martin, also a jeweller, dated 26 January 1676, in which Martin willed Fallon some of his tools. Fallon continued working as a goldsmith until 1700. His are among the oldest surviving examples of the Claddagh ring, in many cases bearing his signature.
There are many
legends
about the origins of the ring, particularly concerning
Richard Joyce
, a
silversmith
from Galway
circa
1700, who is said to have invented the Claddagh design as we know it. Legend has it that Joyce was captured and enslaved by Algerian Corsairs around 1675 while on a passage to the West Indies; he was sold into slavery to a Moorish goldsmith who taught him the craft.King William III sent an ambassador to Algeria to demand the release of any and all British subjects who were enslaved in that country, which at the time would have included Richard Joyce. After fourteen years, Joyce was released and returned to Galway and brought along with him the ring he had fashioned while in captivity: what we've come to know as the Claddagh. He gave the ring to his sweetheart, married, and became a goldsmith with "considerable success" His initials are in one of the earliest surviving Claddagh rings, but there are three other rings also made around that time, bearing the mark of goldsmith Thomas Meade.
The Victorian
antiquarian
Sir William Jones described the Claddagh, and gives Chambers'
Book of Days
as the source, in his book
Finger Ring Lore
. Jones says:
The clasped hands [style ring]... are... still the fashion, and in constant use in [the]... community [of] Claddugh at [County] Galway.... [They] rarely [intermarry] with others than their own people.
An account written in 1906 by William Dillon, a Galway jeweller, claimed that the "Claddagh" ring was worn in the
Aran Isles
,
Connemara
and beyond. Knowledge of the ring and its customs spread within
Ireland
and Britain during the Victorian period, and this is when its name became established.
Galway jewellers began to market it beyond the local area in the 19th century. Further recognition came in the 20th century
.
Learned to be a beautiful ring.
In his 1911 book
Rings for the Finger
, American mineralogist
George Frederick Kunz
addresses the importance of gold wedding rings in Ireland but does not mention the Claddagh ring. He does, however, include a photo of one, captioned with its correct name.
Furthermore, it is unclear exactly how or when the ring was brought to the United States.
Usage and symbolism
The Claddagh's distinctive design features two hands clasping a
heart
and usually surmounted by a
crown
. These elements symbolize the qualities of love (the heart),
friendship
(the hands), and
loyalty
(the crown). A "
Fenian
Claddagh ring, without a crown, is a slightly different take on the design but has not achieved the level of popularity of the crowned version. Claddagh rings are relatively popular among the Irish
and those of Irish heritage, such as Irish Americans, as cultural symbols and as friendship, engagement and wedding rings.
While Claddagh rings are sometimes used as friendship rings, they are most commonly used as engagement and wedding rings. Mothers sometimes give these rings to their daughters when they come of age. There are several mottos and wishes associated with the ring, such as: "Let love and friendship reign." In Ireland, the United States, Canada, and other parts of the Irish diaspora, the Claddagh is sometimes handed down mother-to-eldest daughter or grandmother-to-granddaughter.
According to Irish author Colin Murphy, a Claddagh ring was worn with the intention of conveying the wearer's relationship status:
On the right hand with the point of the heart toward the fingertips: the wearer is single and may be looking for love.
On the right hand with the point of the heart toward the wrist: the wearer is in a relationship.
On the left ring finger with the point of the heart toward the fingertips: the wearer is engaged.
On the left ring finger with the point of the heart toward the wrist: the wearer is married.
There are other localised variations and oral traditions, involving the hand and the finger on which the Claddagh is worn. Folklore about the ring is relatively recent, not ancient, with "very little native Irish writing about the ring", hence, the difficulty today in finding any source that describes or explains the traditional ways of wearing the ring.
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