A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
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Map
Where to find the objects
National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, www.museum.ie
1 Mesolithic fish trap, c.5000BC
2 Ceremonial axehead, 3600BC
3 Neolithic bowl, c.3500BC
4 Flint macehead, 3300-2800BC
5 Neolithic bag, 3800-2500BC
7 Pair of gold discs, 2200-2000BC
8 Coggalbeg gold hoard, 2300-2000BC
9 Bronze age funerary pots, 1900-1300BC
10 Tara’ torcs, c.1200BC
12 Glenisheen gold gorget, c.800-700BC
13 Castledeerg bronze cauldron, 700-600BC
14 Iron spearhead, 800-675BC
15 Broighter boat, c.100BC
16 Old-croghan man, 362-175 BC
17 Loughnashade trumpet, c.100 BC
18 Keshcarrigan bowl, early first century AD
19 Corleck head, first to second century AD
20 Petrie ‘crown’, second century AD
21 Cunorix stone, AD 460-75
23 Mullaghmast stone, AD 500-600
24 St. Patrick’s bell, c.AD500
&n
bsp; 25 Springmount wax tablets, late-sixth century
27 Donore handle, 700-720
29 Tara’ brooch, eighth century
30 Ardagh chalice, eighth century
31 Derrynflan paten, late-eighth century
32 Moylough belt shrine, eighth/ninth century
33 Rinnigan crucifixion plaque, eighth/ninth century
36 Ballinderry sword, mid-ninth century
37 Decorated lead weights, c. 900
38 Roscrea brooch, late-ninth or early-tenth century
39 Slave chain, late-ninth or early-tenth century
40 Silver cone, mid-tenth century
41 Carved crook, early eleventh century
42 Breac Maodhog, late eleventh century
43 Clonmacnoise crozier, eleventh century
44 Cross of Cong, early twelfth century
47 Figure of a horseman, thirteenth century
48 The Domhnach Airgid, c.1350
51 Processional cross, 1479
54 Kavanagh charter horn, thirteenth and fifteenth centuries
National Museum of Ireland – Collins Barracks, Benburb St, Dublin 7, www.museum.ie
34 Tall cross, monasterboice, late-ninth century
50 Two coins, 1284 and 1460
53 De Burgo-O’Malley chalice, 1494
58 Morion helmet, late sixteenth century
62 O’Queely chalice, 1640
63 Cromwell’s cabinet, c.1652
65 King William’s gauntlets, c.1690
66 Crucifixion stone, 1740
68 Wood’s halfpence, 1720s
69 Dillon regiment flag, 1745
70 Rococo silver candlestick, c.1745
72 Cotton panel showing Volunteer review, 1783
73 Pike, 1798
75 Penrose glass decanter, late eighteenth century
76 Robert Emmet’s ring, 1790s
77 Wicker cradle, nineteenth-twentieth centuries
79 Stokes tapestry, 1833-53
83 William Smith O’Brien cup, 1854
84 Parnell silver casket, 1844
86 Youghal lace collar, 1906
87 GAA medal, 1887
88 Reclining buddha, late-nineteenth century
90 Lamp from ‘river clyde’, 1915
91 James Connolly’s shirt, 1916
92 Rejected coin design, 1927
94 Eileen Gray chair, 1926
National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park House, Castlebar, Co Mayo, www.museum.ie
81 Empty cooking pot, 1845-9
82 Emigrant’s teapot, 1850-1950
93 Boyne coracle, 1928
95 Emigrant’s suitcase, 1950s
Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, www.tcd.ie
28 Book of Kells, c.800
23 St Patrick’s Confessio, c. AD 460-490
61 Deposition on Atrocities, 1641
National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, www.nli.ie
46 Laudabiliter papal bull, 1155
59 Leac na Riogh, 1602
74 Act of Union blacklist, early nineteenth century
80 Threatening letter, 1842
National Archives of Ireland, Bishop St, Dublin 8, www.nationalarchives.ie
64 Book of survey, mid-seventeenth century
Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, www.ria.ie
56 The Book of Common prayer, 1551
59 Leac na Riogh, 1602
GAA Museum, Croke Park, St. Joseph’s Avenue Dublin 3, www.crokepark.ie/GAA-Museum
55 Galloglass gravestone, fifteenth or sixteenth century
Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch Place, Dublin 8, www.christchurchdublin.ie
45 Strongbow’s’ tomb, twelfth century
Medieval Museum, Choristers’ Hall, Waterford, www.waterfordtreasures.com/medieval-museum
49 Waterford charter roll, 1215-1373
52 Magi cope, c.1470
Carlow County Museum, College Street, Carlow, www.carlowcountymuseum.ie
85 Carlow Cathedral pulpit, 1899
Derrynane House, Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry, www.heritageireland.ie/en/south-west/derrynanehouse/
78 Daniel O’Connell’s ‘chariot’, 1844
National Museums of Northern Ireland – Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, www.nmni.com
57 Salamander pendant, c.1588
60 Wassail bowl, late sixteenth century
89 Titanic launch ticket, may 1911
National Museums of Northern Ireland – Ulster American Folk Park, 2 Mellon Road, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, www.nmni.com
67 Conestoga wagon, eighteenth century
71 Engraving of linen-makers, 1782
National Museums of Northern Ireland – Site at Tullaghoge, north of Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, www.nmni.com
59 Leac na Riogh, 1602
Museum of Free Derry, Bloody Sunday Centre 55 Glenfada Park, Londonderry,www.museumoffreederry.org
97 Bloody Sunday handkerchief
UK
6 Basket earrings, c.2300BC -Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, The King’s House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire,www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
11 Mooghaun hoard, c.800BC – The Money Gallery, British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, www.britishmuseum.org
23 Cunorix gravestone, AD460-475
Museum of Cultural History, Frederiksgate 2 Oslo, www.khm.uio
35 Oseberg ship, c.815
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