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Archaeologist - all about the gold and archaeology https://independent.academia.edu/MaryCahill

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · Jun 22

At Loughcrew, Co. Meath last night hurling, observing, imbibing and witnessing a beautiful sunset with drumming and chanting adding to the intense atmosphere of celebration #summersolstice2025

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 29d

Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

An Incipit (opening letter) with two birds from the St. Gallen manuscript Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, Cod. Sang 904, p. 25. © Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen.

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Sep 19

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Depiction of the Second Coming in the ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang 51, p. 267. © Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Sep 10

Make Your Thursdays Count!
Looking for something different after work?
🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM.
✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition
📍 Free entry, no booking needed.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Jul 28

Drop-In Manuscript Makers!
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30
🎟️ Free | No booking needed
Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today we’ve turned a new illuminated page in the Irish Gospels of St Gall (Cod. Sang. 51).
Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

The cross-carpet and Chi-Rho pages in St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang 51, pp 6-7; © Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · Jul 14

Such an important excavation, but undoubtedly a very difficult one for the archaeologists involved.

I'm grateful to them for their work, and I'm thinking of them and the relatives of those buried there.

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · Jul 14

Excavation work is due to commence at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway

Excavation to begin at former Tuam mother-and-baby home

Excavation work is due to commence at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.

www.rte.ie

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · Jul 11

Such a pleasure to be at the opening of Martin Wright’s beautiful exhibition Sun Discs-an exhibition of works in turf and 23ct gold leaf at Marsh’Library in Dublin last night. The work is a response to Early Bronze Age gold discs in the exhibition Ór @NMIreland. Don’t miss it.

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · Jul 4

A Bronze Age hoard consisting of a gold bracelet, a gold dress fastener, two bronze rings, and a beautiful necklace of Baltic amber, found near Banagher, Offaly.

The amber, in particular, demonstrates the extensive trade networks of Late Bronze Age Ireland.

On display in @nmireland.bsky.social

The Bronze Age hoard on display in the National Museum of Ireland.

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · Jun 22

At Loughcrew, Co. Meath last night hurling, observing, imbibing and witnessing a beautiful sunset with drumming and chanting adding to the intense atmosphere of celebration #summersolstice2025

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · Jun 6

The concentric circles may be shields but they are also solar images making Caergwrle a truly solar boat and you are so right it should be as well known as the Mold cape. Painting by Liam Holden part of the crew rowing from Kerry to Galicia in a currach. @drtobydriver.bsky.social

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 31

Thanks Peter, he was one of a kind. Here’s the beautiful bronze bust made by Brian’s son Alan. Suaimhneas síoraí air.

Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 31

I can only add - see this exhibition - by far the most significant seen @nmireland.bsky.social for quite some time. It’s only there until 25th October so déin iarracht! The mss are brilliant and the metalwork is a revelation especially the Lough Kinale book shrine. Context is everything. Bí ann.

Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · May 30

The #WordsOnTheWaves exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland is magnificent, get to it, it’ll be here until October 2025. Irish monks went out into Europe, inspired by their faith, to - as they saw it - save the world. Huge credit to Matt Seaver and everyone at @nmireland.bsky.social

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · May 30

Yesterday, we welcomed Dr. Cornell Dora Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter, and Minister
@podonovan to launch Words on the Wave at @NMIreland.
Explore Ireland’s Golden Age through manuscripts, metalwork & more.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

Dr. Cornell Dora, of the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen. Swiss Federal President Karin Keller-Sutter, @Patrick O'Donnovan, Minister for Arts, Culture, Communications, Media and Sport, to join Matt Seaver, Curator and Maeve Sikora, Keeper of Antiquities, at the opening of Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street.

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 27

My good friend, Brian Clarke, the great Irish silversmith who worked on so many incredibly difficult projects such as replicating the Dunraven lunula, the Mold Cape, & the Shropshire bulla, has died. He also used anticlastic raising to make ribbon torcs. We will miss him so much.

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 18

It’s the same exhibition since 1990 actually but updated several times, the last being 2017. So popular with visitors.

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 18

Extreme damage caused by repeated ancient folding and rolling makes this one a bit of a worry. There are several lunulae papers on my academia page.

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 18

They need delicate handling but as they are made from sheet with slightly thickened edges they can be easily handled with due care of course unless they have suffered some damage. Glad you liked the exhibition #Ór @nmireland.bsky.social

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 13

Thinking of something suitably grand from Tipperary to equal Rachael Blackmore’s achievements-of course there is only one - the Derrynaflan paten - now there’s a Tipperary Plate worthy of Rachael and her early medieval relations. We could throw in an ould Cup as well…@NMIreland

Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 6

The most beautiful Blackwater estuary at Youghal on a glorious May evening- now for a glass of 🍾

Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 5

I’m still doodling, well more like colouring in like a 7 year old, but here are two shining solar images, one from Spain, one from Ireland. All goes to show the artistic instincts of the ceramicists is coming from the same place.

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Ruth Carden 🦴 🐾 🐚🦪 @ruthfcarden.bsky.social · May 5

Frosty golden sunrise … but it’s refreshing and glorious!

Golden Prince too …

#Home #Ireland #SiberianForest #cat

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Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 4

Team Plurabelle Anna didn’t win on the Barrow today at Athy but they fought hard. Next time they are going for gold.

Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 4

Members of Plurabelle Paddlers dragon boat crew (including my own sister Katherine on lhs) at today’s regatta in Athy, Co. Kildare. A great club dedicated to supporting breast cancer achievers (my preferred term)

Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 2

Miradas Milenarias, of course

Mary Cahill @auireland.bsky.social · May 2

A fantastic opportunity today in @nmireland.bsky.social to meet Prof Jorge Soler Diaz, Alicante, renowned specialist in the Neolithic; curator and author of Ídolo Miranda’s Milenarias; to introduce him to a fascinating object with Iberian connections all the way from Co. Kilkenny. More anon #único

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