Mary Cahill
@auireland.bsky.social
Archaeologist - all about the gold and archaeology https://independent.academia.edu/MaryCahill
Visit the National Museum of Ireland at the Ploughing Championships on 16 & 17 September. Meet our curators, discover Irish history, and enjoy family-friendly activities. 📍 Hub 5, Stand 138 (Row 7, Block 4) www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T... #Heritage #Ploughing2026
🔔 Discover the story of the medieval Howth Bells as part of #DublinByDusk Join archaeologist Sharon Weadick for a fascinating evening talk exploring the history of the magnificent Howth Bells 📅 Thursday 27 August 🕔 5pm 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
NEW Best known as the mythological capital of Ulster, Navan Fort was one of the five ancient capitals of Ireland. New research finds the landscape's significance stretches all the way back to the Bronze Age, indicating it was a major prehistoric centre. #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology
Read the new research in Antiquity 🆓 Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe - James O’Driscoll & Patrick Gleeson doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 12/12 🧵
Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Before Navan Fort became the mythological capital of the Irish province of Ulster, construction of the monumental Haughey’s Fort around 1200 BC marked the foundation of an important prehistoric centre. Here, the authors report on research integrating remote sensing, excavation and archival reassessment in the exploration of this Bronze Age landscape. Indicators of long-distance exchange and craft production of high-status artefacts, together with the presence of 204 possible structures and a ceremonial avenue leading towards a unique ritual pool, help elucidate the site’s social, economic and ritual importance, while identification of a 109ha enclosure underlines the exceptional scale of activities.
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Stunning carving in the beautiful Musée de Cluny à Paris aujourd’hui
Sending you some prehistoric sunshine - Neolithic and Early Bronze Age - from Ireland for #2026summersolstice
Gold wires, plain or twisted, are used in lots of different ways on Bronze Age goldwork from Ireland. Here we see gorget terminals stitched to the collar & the collar edge rolled over a twisted wire making a distinct impression. See this gorget and others @nmireland.bsky.social Ór exhibition.
Beautiful light in the west this evening in the Kingdom of Kerry.
Christmas morning swim at the Front Strand in Youghal, Co. Cork in aid of Vince de Paul. Hundreds of brave swimmers and thousands of even braver photographers! Nollaig Shona do chách.
A brilliant solar image from an Early Bronze Age Encrusted Urn found at Comber, Co. Down, to greet the dawn #newgrangesolstice #WinterSolstice2025
Just out- the Winter 2025 edition of @archiremag.bsky.social with lots of interesting articles and my ‘Reading the urns’ on the idea of solar-powered pots and urns in need of understanding. Just in time for #wintersolstice2025
The amazing 'Words on the Wave' project from the National Museum of Ireland has been shortlisted for the Current Archaeology research project of the year. To read more about it and cast your vote, all the details are here! archaeology.co.uk/awards/resea...
Research Project of the Year 2026 – Nominees - Current Archaeology
This has been another exceptional year for archaeological research. The following are some of the most exciting projects to have featured in CA over the last 12 months – the nominees for Research Proj...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 · last yr.Excavation work is due to commence at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway
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.
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
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
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
Dr Toby Driver@drtobydriver.bsky.social · last yr.A #FindsFriday from Welsh prehistory which should be far more famous than it is.. The remarkable Caergwrle 'bowl', a unique shale representation of a Bronze Age ship unearthed in 1823, with gold waves, oars & shields applied. Just incredible 🤩 📷 1939 Amgueddfa Cymru catalogue 📷 My own, St Fagans
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 · last yr.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
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...
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.
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
The most beautiful Blackwater estuary at Youghal on a glorious May evening- now for a glass of 🍾
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.
Frosty golden sunrise … but it’s refreshing and glorious! Golden Prince too … #Home #Ireland #SiberianForest #cat
