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The National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology (Irish: Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann – Seandálaíocht, often known as the "NMI") is a branch of the National Museum of Ireland located on Kildare Street in Dublin, Ireland, that specialises in Irish and other antiquities dating from the Stone Age to the Late Middle Ages
Detail of the head Gallagh Man. The withy hoop found around his neck may originally have been part of a spancel used for restraining animals. [11] It was probably used as a garrotte to strangle him, probably during a ritual involving human sacrifice, [12] given that most of such bodies from this period are young males aged 25 to 40 years old, and like many of these victims, his hair had been ...
He served as Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork from 1936 until 1943, then as Professor of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin from 1943 until his death in 1957. As a professor, he influenced a generation of Irish archaeologists, notably Michael J. O'Kelly and Rúaidhrí de Valera. [1]
Details of the hundred objects, written by Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole, were initially serialized in The Irish Times between February 2011 and January 2013. In February 2013 a book about the hundred objects written by O'Toole, entitled A History of Ireland in 100 Objects , was published, and it quickly became a best-seller with 35,000 ...
The National Museum of Ireland (Irish: Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann) is Ireland's leading museum institution, with a strong emphasis on national and some international archaeology, Irish history, Irish art, culture, and natural history.
The Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (Irish: Institiúid Seandálaithe na hÉireann) is an Irish archaeology organisation based in Dublin, Ireland.Founded in Merrion Square, Dublin in August 2001, the organisation represents professional archaeologists who are working in the island of Ireland, both in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland.
Eamonn P. Kelly (known as "Ned") is an Irish archaeologist and historian who worked for the Irish Antiquities Division of the National Museum of Ireland from 1975, including as Keeper of Irish Antiquities (1992-2014).
"Notes on the Topography and History of the Parish of Hook, County of Wexford. Part I". Proceedings and Transactions of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society. 3 (1): 194– 199. JSTOR 25493654. Graves, James (1855). "A List of the Ancient Irish Monumental Stones at Present Existing at Clonmacnoise".