Bronze hand-bell (w: 27.9 x h: 29.8x d: 20.3cm). Known by various names: the Bell of Armagh, Bell of Ballynaback/Ballinabeck (through confusion with another nearby graveyard) and Clog Ban/Beannighte 'blessed bell'. The inscription is arranged horizontally in three lines on the lo
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A black, clay ironstone nodule found inside the supposed tomb of Saint Breccán, approximately w: 0.76 x h: 0.76x d: 0.38cm, almost flat on the underside. A plain cross is carved on the upper side. The inscription is positioned on the stone in a single, circular line around the ed
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A silver (with gold, glass and amber) pseudo-penannular brooch consisting of a ring and a freely moving pin (h: (length of pin) 0.31cm) of Hiberno-Viking style (Whitfield and Okasha 1992, 55-60). The brooch belongs to a group of Irish brooches dated broadly to the ninth century,
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The Bronze Age Handling Box Microsite was developed as an online resource for teachers and others to digital access the Handling Box and to provide additional information on the replica objects and raw materials within the box. The website also contains additional instruction
Art | Bronze Age Ireland | Bronze Age
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The Bronze Age Handling Box is a resource for teachers to use in the classroom, when teaching about topics relating to the Bronze Age in Ireland. The box contains museum quality replica objects based on archaeological artefacts at the National Museum of Ireland; examples of ra
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Frongoch Internment 1916. Museum print showing four rows of prisoners.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916 | Internment camps | Prisoners--customs and practices
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Postcard with a photograph showing Frongoch Internment Camp, with text below 'Concentration Camp, Frongoch, Bala'.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916 | Internment camps | Prisoners--customs and practices
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Postcard photograph of Michael Murphy. Head and shoulders with legend in inscribed on front 'Vol. Michael Murphy 1916 frongock (sic)' internment camp.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916 | Internment camps | Prisoners--customs and practices
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Postcard with a photograph showing a wide shot of of the camp taken from outside.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916 | Internment camps | Prisoners--customs and practices
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Photograph of altar in Frongoch Internment camp, 1916.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916 | Internment camps | Prisoners--customs and practices
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Photograph of 'The Black Hand Gang', Frongoch, 1916. In middle of 1st row Domhnall Ó Buachalla. Behind George Lyons (1st from left) Charly Murphy (4th from left) Sean McMahon and Martin Ryan.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916 | Internment camps | Prisoners--customs and practices
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Portion of a brick in which is embedded a bullet, fired by the firing party which executed Mr Francis Sheehy Skeffington at Portobello Barracks, 26 April 1916; the bullet passed through the body of Mr. Sheehy Skeffington.
Skeffington, Francis Sheehy- (1878–1916) | Skeffington, (Johanna) Hanna Sheehy - (1877–1946) | Scannell, Francis McLoughlin
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