This Bronze Age Board Game is based on the Mizen Peninsula in west Cork, where there is evidence of the use of copper and gold deposits during the Bronze Age. The game centres around copper mining at Mount Gabriel and the journey of a Bronze Age man from his home to the mines to
This resource book accompanies the handing box and other resources and provides information on strategies for teaching and learning about the Bronze Age in Ireland using object based learning strategies.
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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 o
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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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Sliabh na mBan is a mountain which is situated northwest of Carrick-on-Suir and northeast of Clonmel in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Sliabh na mBan translates into English as ‘mountain of the women’. There are many literary and cultural references to this famed mountain. Sliabh na mBa
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Jack Coughlan’s is a popular reel among flute players. It was recorded on flute by the legendary box player Joe Burke (Loughrea, Co. Galway) on his album, The Tailor’s Choice. The reek is generally attributed to the Galway flute player, Jack Coughlan, though it is not certain tha
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The first jig, King of the Pipers, has its origins in an Old Orange march, also known as Ballyshannon. Hannah learned this tune from her former piano teacher and mentor, Seán Walsh from Skibbereen. Princess Nancy was composed by the renowned American fiddler, Liz Carroll, born i
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From the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, fair days were a prominent feature in the towns of rural Ireland. Livestock was sold by farmers and bought by jobbers, the cattle dealers of the time, noted for being crafty and colourful characters, talented at sweet-talking farm
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John McGrath’s is much associated with the legendary Irish-American fiddler, Andy McGann. The tune is reputed to be composed by Mayo musician, John McGrath. Born in Rossport, Co. Mayo in 1900, John emigrated to New York, where he promoted traditional Irish music for many years.
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The Broken Pledge occurs as one of the first reels O'Neill's Music of Ireland, the milestone publication referred to as ‘The Book’ or ‘O’Neill’s 1001’. The tune was recorded in 1929 by Galway accordion maestro, P. J. Conlon. Éadaoin Ní Mhaicín learned this setting of Lad O’Be
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Also known as An Fhirinne-Bhean Mhodhamuil, this slow piece appears in the Goodman Collection of the 1860s. Canon James Goodman (1828-1896), a native Irish speaker from Dingle, Church of Ireland clergyman, and later Professor of Irish at Trinity College Dublin, collected over two
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Conor first heard this reel from a recording of the Belfast piper and broadcaster, Robbie Hannon. This recording was taken from the 1984 RTÉ programme, The Long Note. According to the Dublin piper, Mick O’Brien, Johnny Doran transcribed a version of this tune in a manuscript know
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