page_title: Gaelic warfare
section_title: Standards and Music
hierarchical_section_title: Gaelic warfare / Indigenous Gaelic Warfare / Standards and Music
caption_attribution_description: A plate originally from The Image of Irelande, by John Derrick, published in 1581.This image was taken from this Edinburgh University Library website - [1], with the description - "An armed company of the kerne, carrying halberds and pikes and led by a piper, attack and burn a farmhouse and drive off the horses and cattle".
context_page_description: Gaelic warfare was the type of warfare practised by the Gaelic peoples, that is the Irish, Scottish, and Manx, in the pre-modern period.
context_section_description: Standards and hollowed out bull horns (a primitive battle trumpet) were often carried into battle to rally men into combat. Bagpipes would gain popularity in the later period notably the Great Highland Bagpipe and Great Irish Warpipes which would go on to be used by Gaelic mercenaries in Continental Europe and eventually develop into ceremonial instruments.
caption: A raid depicted in The Image of Irelande (1581). Kerns made up the bulk of the army, as light infantrymen. Note the Bagpiper leading the troops.
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