A Guide to the National Museum of Ireland

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^¦aHMIHHjH This indispensable guidebook to the National Museum of Ireland is the first of its kind. Written by the museum's director Dr Patrick F Wallace, this is a personal selection - of items chosen from collections which have been amassed* over the centuries and which are now housed at the museum^ three Dublin venues: Kildare Street, Merrion Street and collins barracks, as well as in castlebar, co Mayo. Dr Wallace introduces us to antiquities in Kildare Street, natural history andfolklife at Merrion Street, and history and applied arts at Collins Barracks. Specimensfrom Ireland's rich StoneAge, unparalleledgold ornamentsfrom the Bronzé Age, and sophisticated metalworkfrom the Celtic Iron Age are represented here alongside the Museum's worldfamous holdings of metalworkfrom Irel and's GoldenAge of early Christianity. Cont inuing with introductions to Georgián silver, Irishfurniture andglass, and to items connected with the War of Independence and traditional life in rural Ireland,... Tovább

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^¦aHMIHHjH This indispensable guidebook to the National Museum of Ireland is the first of its kind. Written by the museum's director Dr Patrick F Wallace, this is a personal selection - of items chosen from collections which have been amassed* over the centuries and which are now housed at the museum^ three Dublin venues: Kildare Street, Merrion Street and collins barracks, as well as in castlebar, co Mayo. Dr Wallace introduces us to antiquities in Kildare Street, natural history andfolklife at Merrion Street, and history and applied arts at Collins Barracks. Specimensfrom Ireland's rich StoneAge, unparalleledgold ornamentsfrom the Bronzé Age, and sophisticated metalworkfrom the Celtic Iron Age are represented here alongside the Museum's worldfamous holdings of metalworkfrom Irel and's GoldenAge of early Christianity. Cont inuing with introductions to Georgián silver, Irishfurniture andglass, and to items connected with the War of Independence and traditional life in rural Ireland, A Guide to the National Museum of Ireland is a unique guide to a unique institution. The collections that make up the National Museum constitute what in European terms is stíled a 'comprehensive museum'. This guide looks across a rangé of collections, from natural histoty and antiquities to art, industry andfolk life, and in so do ing both illuminates and accesses the grand miscellanea that is the National Museum of Ireland. Vissza