Orla O'shanahan

Persona

Honorable Lady Órlaith Ó Seanacháin (Anglicized as Orla O'shanahan) is a Viking woman living in Ireland during the 11th century. Her skill and trade by day is in the crafting and shaping of fine metals and gems. Her brooches and ornaments have been worn by some of the finest of Ealdormere's Queens. When away at camp her voice can be heard round the fire, warmed by the joys of sharing mead, cider and song. In recent times she or her husband, James Kidd, can often be found chasing or being harried by, their not so wee tyke, Iris.

Whereabouts

Orla resides in the sunny south of the Shire of Trinovantia Nova.

Heraldry

• Device: Per bend sinister argent and azure,a fir tree eradicated between in bend a mullet of four points and a roundel counterchanged.

Past Offices

• Minister of Arts & Sciences - Shire of Trinovantia Nova 2014-2016

SCA History

• Provided a modest feast for the Masquerade in AS 45
• Taught the Basics of Lost Wax Carving and Simple Sandcasting at FOOL V
• Entered Pentathalon AS 47, to share the joy found in metalsmithing, enameling, dyeing, tent building and song.
• Became a member of the Royal Horticultural and Herbalism Guild of Ealdormere AS 47.
• Taught Enameling a Saxon Brooch at FOOL VI
• appenticed to Odette de Saint Remy FOOL VI
• Taught Enameling & Lost Wax Carving at Fool VII
• Challenged to the White Wolf Fian with the goal of casting in a period manner a pair of viking brooches starting from digging the clay out of the the ground and finishing them by the fall of AS 49.
• Accepted into the White Wolf Fian at a field court during War of the Trillium A.S. 49
• Taught Silk Painting in the shire Spring A.S 50
• Taught Lost Wax Casting and making wax copies at FOOL VIII
• Became a member of the Ealdormere Brewers Guild AS 50.

Interests

• Archery
• Singing
• Metalworking
• Jewellery making
• Enamelling
• Gem Cutting
• Intaglio Carving
• Leatherworking
• Dyeing
• Weaving
• Arts & Sciences
• Herbalism
• Brewing
• Cooking

Awards

• Award of Arms - May 8th, 2010
• Award of Orion - November 16th, 2013
• Order of the Crucible - November 29th 2014

Contact Information

Orla can be reached by email.