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MuseumsSite Name: National Museum of Ireland
Country: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 0.302 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Dublin Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Dublin
Latitude: 53.340561N  Longitude: 6.254907W
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National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland submitted by Creative Commons : The Natural History Galleries of the National Museum of Ireland in Upper Merrion Street Copyright Eric Jones and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)
National Museum of Ireland in Dublin

Address: Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Phone: 0353 1 6777444
Opening Hours: Tues – Sat: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Sun: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Admission: Free
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National Museum of Ireland submitted by Sunny100 : Site in Co. Dublin Ireland (Southern). The Aglish pillar stone, dating from the 5th-6th century in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. It originally stood at the monastic site of Aglish near Dingle, Co. Kerry. The stone bears a circle with a Maltese cross inside, an Ogham inscription, symbols and two swastikas. The stone is one of 24 on display in the museum. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by Sunny100 : A replica of The Gundestrup Cauldron housed in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. The original dating from the 1st century BC is at Copenhagen museum. It is an Iron-Age silver vessel of the late La Tene period. Measuring 69cm diameter x 42cm in height, it is richly worked with figures including Cernunnos (or Mercury), attacking his enemies. This figure with the broken wheel is considered to b... (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by Jonik : Bronze Age gold collars. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by Sunny100 : Site in Co. Dublin Ireland (Southern). The three-faced head of Lug, the Celtic diety, forms part of the Drumeague Pantheon Collection in the museum. The stone head was dug up from a hillside at Corleck, Co.Cavan, in 1885. The head is called The Corleck Tricephalos, and dates from the Iron-Age. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by Jonik : Bronze Age gold collars. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02 : Museum in Dublin Site in Co. Dublin Ireland (Southern) Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (1 comment)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by KaiHofmann : Spiral decorated stone in Dublin museum. (2 comments)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by Jonik : Altartate Cauldron.

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02 : Museum in Dublin Site in Co. Dublin Ireland (Southern) Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02

National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02

National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02

National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02

National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02 : Museum of Dublin Site in Co. Dublin Ireland (Southern) Lame de hache en jadéite du Mont Viso (mais trouvée en Irlande) Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02 : Museum of Dublin Masse en silex gravée (Knowth) Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by neolithique02 : Museum of Dublin Site in Co. Dublin Ireland (Southern) Image copyright: Néolithique02, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by durhamnature : Bone flageolet in the museum, from "Prehistoric Art..." via archive.org

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by durhamnature : Drawing of Ogham Stone in the museum, from Wakeman's Handbook, via archive.org Site in Co. Dublin Ireland (Southern)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by KaiHofmann : The double faced stone-head.

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by KaiHofmann : Longboat in the Dublin National Museum (1 comment)

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National Museum of Ireland submitted by KaiHofmann : Replica of Carrowkeel cairn the Dublin National Museum

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Re: National Museum of Ireland by davidmorgan on Monday, 28 April 2014
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Irish bog bodies help unlock secrets of Iron Age by Andy B on Wednesday, 02 August 2006
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Life in the Iron Age may have been nasty, brutish and short but people still found time to style their hair and polish their fingernails - and that was just the men.

These are the findings of scientists who have been examining the latest preserved prehistoric bodies to emerge from Ireland's peat bogs -- the first to be found in Europe for 20 years.

One of the bodies, churned up by a peat-cutting machine at Clonycavan near Dublin in 2003, had raised Mohawk-style hair, held in place with gel imported from abroad.

The other, unearthed three months later and 40 km (25 miles) away in Oldcroghan by workmen digging a ditch, had perfectly manicured fingernails.

"I think the message I'm getting is that although they were living in a different time, a different culture, eating different things, living in a different way, people are people -- they're the same in their thinking," said Rolly Read, head of conservation at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.

Read is one of a team of experts from Britain and Ireland who carried out an 18-month examination of the 2,300-year-old corpses and whose findings form the basis of "Kingship & Sacrifice", a major new exhibition at the museum.

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The bog man still looking his best 2,300 years later by Andy B on Tuesday, 01 August 2006
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For decades it has been a man’s privilege to scoff at the lengths to which women will go to make themselves look beautiful. But go back a few thousand years and the male of the species went to extraordinary lengths to look good, it has been revealed.

Scientists examining prehistoric bodies found in the peat bogs of Ireland have discovered evidence of careful grooming on male corpses. One of the bodies, dug up in 2003 at Clonycavan, near Dublin, had Mohawk-style hair, held in place with a gel substance. The other, unearthed three months later 25 miles (40km) away in Oldcroghan by workmen, had perfectly manicured fingernails.

The findings on the bodies, which are 2,300 years old, suggest that despite living in the Iron Age, ancient man had some very modern concerns. “I think the message I’m getting is that although they were living in a different time, a different culture, eating different things, living in a different way, people are people — they’re the same in their thinking,” said Rolly Read, head of conservation at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.

Mr Read, one of a team of scientists from the UK and Ireland to carry out the research, said that the examination of the bodies had provided valuable insights into life in the Iron Age. The hair product used, for example, was a gel made of plant oil and pine resin imported from southwestern France or Spain, showing that trade between Ireland and southern Europe was taking place almost 2,500 years ago.

Although hundreds of bodies have been found in bogs in northern Europe’s wetlands, where they were preserved by the peat’s chemical composition, many have until now been spared detailed examination, as techniques to preserve them further had not been perfected.

As well as having groomed nails and coiffered locks, the corpses reveal evidence of a good diet. While the males discovered may have been particular about their appearance, however, their fates were less than pretty. Both bodies, thought to be those of men in their twenties, betrayed signs of suffering painful deaths. As with several other bodies found in bogs, the man at Oldcroghan had been beheaded.

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Bog bodies found were society's elite by Andy B on Friday, 23 June 2006
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Research into Iron Age bog bodies discovered in the midlands of Ireland has revealed they were elite members of society who may have met violent deaths as part of kingship rituals.

As the bodies discovered in 2003 went on display at the National Museum of Ireland, Eamonn Kelly, the keeper of Irish antiquities, said they were placed along significant boundaries of ancient kingdoms linking them to sovereignty and kingship rituals during the Iron Age.

"The bodies fit in, in that they are also offerings, they are offerings to the territorial gods or goddesses but they may also at a practical level have represented the elimination of perhaps failed candidates for kingship or deposed kings," said Mr Kelly on the two bodies discovered in bogs at Oldcroghan, Co Offaly and Clonycavan, Co Meath.

Research has shown that many of the items discovered, such as kingly regalia, horse trappings and weapons, were connected with the inauguration rituals of kings which can be traced back to the Bronze Age.

"All of the bog bodies were members of the elite, Oldcroghan man had no wear on his hands, had manicured fingernails, Clonycavan man is able to afford expensive hair gel brought in from Spain. So these are members of the elite, they are not slaves, they are not prisoners of war.

"They might be royal hostages who have been killed to enforce the submission of subservient lords," Mr Kelly said at the launch of the exhibition 'Kingship and Sacrifice - An exhibition of bog bodies and related finds'.

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