In this contribution to the Know Your Monuments series, Muiris O’Sullivan and Liam Downey outline the evolution in recent centuries of hurling, Gaelic football and camogie. Games unique to Irish culture, in particular hurling, Gaelic football and camogie, have been…
The Garryduff gold bird
Daniel Breen describes a lovely artefact from Cork Public Museum The Garryduff gold bird has a special connection with Cork Public Museum. Not only was it unearthed in the same year as the Museum’s opening but also the excavation was…
The last acquisition
Mary Cahill describes an interesting curatorial dilemma. Just before I retired from the National Museum of Ireland at the end of June this year I had the opportunity to complete a final acquisition that proved to be one of the…