Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
Prelims
Introduction
1. Mesolithic fish trap, c. 5000 B.C
2. Ceremonial axehead, 3600 B.C
3. Neolithic bowl, c. 3500 B.C
4. Flint macehead, 3300–2800 B.C
5. Neolithic bag, 3800–2500 B.C
6. Basket earrings, c.2300 B.C
7. Pair of gold discs, 2200–2000 B.C
8. Coggalbeg gold hoard, 2300–2000 B.C
9. Bronze Age funerary pots, 1900–1300 B.C
10. Tara torcs, c.1200 B.C
11. Mooghaun hoard, c.800 B.C
12. Gleninsheen gold gorget, c.800–700 B.C
13. Castlederg bronze cauldron, 700–600 B.C
14. Iron spearhead, 800–675 B.C
15. Broighter boat, c.100 B.C
16. Armlet, Old-croghan Man, 362–175 B.C
17. Loughnashade trumpet, c.100 B.C
18. Keshcarrigan bowl, early first century AD
19. Corleck head, first or second century AD
20. Petrie ‘Crown’, second century AD
21. Cunorix stone, AD 460–75
22. St. Patrick’s confessio, c. AD 460–90
23. Mullaghmast stone, AD 500–600
24. St Patrick’s bell, c. seventh century
25. Springmount wax tablets, late-sixteenth century
26. Ballinderry brooch, c. AD 600
27. Donore handle, 700–720
28. Book of Kells, c.800
29. ‘Tara’ brooch, eighth century
30. Ardagh Chalice, eighth century
31. Derrynaflan Paten, late-eighth/early-ninth century
32. Moylough belt shrine, eighth/ninth century
33. Rinnagan Crucifixion Plaque, eighth/ninth century
35. Oseberg Ship, c.815
36. Ballinderry Sword, mid-ninth century
37. Decorated lead weights, c.900
38. Roscrea Brooch, late-ninth century
39. Slave chain, late-ninth or early-tenth century
40. Silver cone, mid-tenth century
41. Carved crook, early-eleventh century
42. Breac maodhóg, late-eleventh century
43. Clonmacnoise crozier, eleventh century
44. Cross of Cong, early-twelfth century
45. ‘Strongbow’s tomb’, twelfth century
46. Laudabiliter papal bull, 1155
47. Figure of a horseman, thirteenth century
48. Domhnach Airgid, c.1350
49. Waterford charter roll, 1215–1373
50. Two coins, 1280s and 1460
51. Processional cross, 1479
52. Magi cope, c.1470
53. De Burgo–O’Malley chalice, 1494
54. Kavanagh charter horn, twelfth and fifteenth centuries
55. Gallowglass gravestone, fifteenth or sixteenth century
56. Book of Common Prayer, 1551
57. Salamander pendant, c.1588
58. Morion, late-sixteenth century
59. Leac na RÍogh, tenth–fifteenth century
60. Wassail bowl, late-sixteenth century
61. Deposition on atrocities, 1641
62. O’Queely chalice, 1640
63. Fleetwood cabinet, c.1652
64. Books of survey and distribution, mid-seventeenth century
65. King William’s gauntlets, c.1690
66. Crucifixion stone, 1740
67. Conestoga wagon, eighteenth century
68. Wood’s halfpence, 1722
69. Dillon regimental flag, 1745
70. Rococo silver candlestick, c.1745
71. Engraving of linen-makers, 1782
72. Cotton panel showing volunteer review, 1783
73. Pike, 1798
74. Act of Union Blacklist, early-nineteenth century
75. Penrose glass decanter, late-eighteenth century
76. Robert Emmet’s ring, 1790s
77. Wicker cradle,nineteenth-twentieth centuries
78. Daniel O’Connell’s ‘chariot’, 1844
79. Stokes ‘tapestry’, 1833–53
80. ‘Captain Rock’ threatening letter, 1842
81. Empty cooking pot, nineteenth century
82. Emigrant’s teapot, late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century
83. William Smith O’Brien gold cup, 1854
84. Parnell silver casket, 1884
85. Carlow Cathedral pulpit, 1899
86. Youghal Lace collar, 1906
87. GAA medal, 1887
88. Reclining Buddha, late-nineteenth century
89. Titanic launch ticket, 1911
90. Lamp from River Clyde, 1915
91. James Connolly’s shirt, 1916
92. Rejected coin design, 1927
93. Boyne corracle, 1928
94. Eileen Gray chair, 1926
95. Emigrant’s suitcase, 1950s
96. Washing machine, 1950s
97. Bloody Sunday handkerchief, 1972
98. Intel microprocessor, 1994
99. Anglo Irish Bank sign, 2000–2011
100. Decommissioned AK47, 2005
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Suggested Reading
Map
Where to find the Objects
Copyright
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