Mary Cahill
@auireland.bsky.social
Archaeologist - all about the gold and archaeology
https://independent.academia.edu/MaryCahill
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Just out- the Winter 2025 edition of @archiremag.bsky.social with lots of interesting articles and my ‘Reading the urns’ on the idea of solar-powered pots and urns in need of understanding. Just in time for #wintersolstice2025
Just out- the Winter 2025 edition of @archiremag.bsky.social with lots of interesting articles and my ‘Reading the urns’ on the idea of solar-powered pots and urns in need of understanding. Just in time for #wintersolstice2025
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Just out- the Winter 2025 edition of @archiremag.bsky.social with lots of interesting articles and my ‘Reading the urns’ on the idea of solar-powered pots and urns in need of understanding. Just in time for #wintersolstice2025
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The amazing 'Words on the Wave' project from the National Museum of Ireland has been shortlisted for the Current Archaeology research project of the year.
To read more about it and cast your vote, all the details are here!
archaeology.co.uk/awards/resea...
To read more about it and cast your vote, all the details are here!
archaeology.co.uk/awards/resea...
Research Project of the Year 2026 – Nominees - Current Archaeology
This has been another exceptional year for archaeological research. The following are some of the most exciting projects to have featured in CA over the last 12 months – the nominees for Research Proj...
archaeology.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The amazing 'Words on the Wave' project from the National Museum of Ireland has been shortlisted for the Current Archaeology research project of the year.
To read more about it and cast your vote, all the details are here!
archaeology.co.uk/awards/resea...
To read more about it and cast your vote, all the details are here!
archaeology.co.uk/awards/resea...
Reposted by Mary Cahill
Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
September 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
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Make Your Thursdays Count!
Looking for something different after work?
🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM.
✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition
📍 Free entry, no booking needed.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...
Looking for something different after work?
🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM.
✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition
📍 Free entry, no booking needed.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...
September 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Make Your Thursdays Count!
Looking for something different after work?
🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM.
✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition
📍 Free entry, no booking needed.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...
Looking for something different after work?
🕔 The National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street is open late on Thurs 11 & 18 Sept until 8 PM.
✨ Discover the stunning Words on the Wave exhibition
📍 Free entry, no booking needed.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/L...
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Drop-In Manuscript Makers!
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30
🎟️ Free | No booking needed
Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30
🎟️ Free | No booking needed
Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
July 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Drop-In Manuscript Makers!
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30
🎟️ Free | No booking needed
Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
📅 Wed 30 July| 13:30–15:30
🎟️ Free | No booking needed
Step into the world of early medieval scribes! Try calligraphy, explore ancient pigments & learn how treasures like the Book of Kells were made
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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Today we’ve turned a new illuminated page in the Irish Gospels of St Gall (Cod. Sang. 51).
Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
July 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Today we’ve turned a new illuminated page in the Irish Gospels of St Gall (Cod. Sang. 51).
Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
Explore the beauty of cross-carpets and Chi-Rhos in our latest blog, then see them in person at Words on the Wave
📍 National Museum of Ireland – Kildare Street
🔗 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
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Such an important excavation, but undoubtedly a very difficult one for the archaeologists involved.
I'm grateful to them for their work, and I'm thinking of them and the relatives of those buried there.
I'm grateful to them for their work, and I'm thinking of them and the relatives of those buried there.
Excavation work is due to commence at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway
Excavation to begin at former Tuam mother-and-baby home
Excavation work is due to commence at the site of the former mother-and-baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.
www.rte.ie
July 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Such an important excavation, but undoubtedly a very difficult one for the archaeologists involved.
I'm grateful to them for their work, and I'm thinking of them and the relatives of those buried there.
I'm grateful to them for their work, and I'm thinking of them and the relatives of those buried there.
Such a pleasure to be at the opening of Martin Wright’s beautiful exhibition Sun Discs-an exhibition of works in turf and 23ct gold leaf at Marsh’Library in Dublin last night. The work is a response to Early Bronze Age gold discs in the exhibition Ór @NMIreland. Don’t miss it.
July 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Such a pleasure to be at the opening of Martin Wright’s beautiful exhibition Sun Discs-an exhibition of works in turf and 23ct gold leaf at Marsh’Library in Dublin last night. The work is a response to Early Bronze Age gold discs in the exhibition Ór @NMIreland. Don’t miss it.
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A Bronze Age hoard consisting of a gold bracelet, a gold dress fastener, two bronze rings, and a beautiful necklace of Baltic amber, found near Banagher, Offaly.
The amber, in particular, demonstrates the extensive trade networks of Late Bronze Age Ireland.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
The amber, in particular, demonstrates the extensive trade networks of Late Bronze Age Ireland.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A Bronze Age hoard consisting of a gold bracelet, a gold dress fastener, two bronze rings, and a beautiful necklace of Baltic amber, found near Banagher, Offaly.
The amber, in particular, demonstrates the extensive trade networks of Late Bronze Age Ireland.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
The amber, in particular, demonstrates the extensive trade networks of Late Bronze Age Ireland.
On display in @nmireland.bsky.social
At Loughcrew, Co. Meath last night hurling, observing, imbibing and witnessing a beautiful sunset with drumming and chanting adding to the intense atmosphere of celebration #summersolstice2025
June 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
At Loughcrew, Co. Meath last night hurling, observing, imbibing and witnessing a beautiful sunset with drumming and chanting adding to the intense atmosphere of celebration #summersolstice2025
The concentric circles may be shields but they are also solar images making Caergwrle a truly solar boat and you are so right it should be as well known as the Mold cape. Painting by Liam Holden part of the crew rowing from Kerry to Galicia in a currach. @drtobydriver.bsky.social
June 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The concentric circles may be shields but they are also solar images making Caergwrle a truly solar boat and you are so right it should be as well known as the Mold cape. Painting by Liam Holden part of the crew rowing from Kerry to Galicia in a currach. @drtobydriver.bsky.social
I can only add - see this exhibition - by far the most significant seen @nmireland.bsky.social for quite some time. It’s only there until 25th October so déin iarracht! The mss are brilliant and the metalwork is a revelation especially the Lough Kinale book shrine. Context is everything. Bí ann.
The #WordsOnTheWaves exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland is magnificent, get to it, it’ll be here until October 2025. Irish monks went out into Europe, inspired by their faith, to - as they saw it - save the world. Huge credit to Matt Seaver and everyone at @nmireland.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I can only add - see this exhibition - by far the most significant seen @nmireland.bsky.social for quite some time. It’s only there until 25th October so déin iarracht! The mss are brilliant and the metalwork is a revelation especially the Lough Kinale book shrine. Context is everything. Bí ann.
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Yesterday, we welcomed Dr. Cornell Dora Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter, and Minister
@podonovan to launch Words on the Wave at @NMIreland.
Explore Ireland’s Golden Age through manuscripts, metalwork & more.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
@podonovan to launch Words on the Wave at @NMIreland.
Explore Ireland’s Golden Age through manuscripts, metalwork & more.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
May 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Yesterday, we welcomed Dr. Cornell Dora Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter, and Minister
@podonovan to launch Words on the Wave at @NMIreland.
Explore Ireland’s Golden Age through manuscripts, metalwork & more.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
@podonovan to launch Words on the Wave at @NMIreland.
Explore Ireland’s Golden Age through manuscripts, metalwork & more.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
My good friend, Brian Clarke, the great Irish silversmith who worked on so many incredibly difficult projects such as replicating the Dunraven lunula, the Mold Cape, & the Shropshire bulla, has died. He also used anticlastic raising to make ribbon torcs. We will miss him so much.
May 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
My good friend, Brian Clarke, the great Irish silversmith who worked on so many incredibly difficult projects such as replicating the Dunraven lunula, the Mold Cape, & the Shropshire bulla, has died. He also used anticlastic raising to make ribbon torcs. We will miss him so much.
Thinking of something suitably grand from Tipperary to equal Rachael Blackmore’s achievements-of course there is only one - the Derrynaflan paten - now there’s a Tipperary Plate worthy of Rachael and her early medieval relations. We could throw in an ould Cup as well…@NMIreland
May 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Thinking of something suitably grand from Tipperary to equal Rachael Blackmore’s achievements-of course there is only one - the Derrynaflan paten - now there’s a Tipperary Plate worthy of Rachael and her early medieval relations. We could throw in an ould Cup as well…@NMIreland
The most beautiful Blackwater estuary at Youghal on a glorious May evening- now for a glass of 🍾
May 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The most beautiful Blackwater estuary at Youghal on a glorious May evening- now for a glass of 🍾
I’m still doodling, well more like colouring in like a 7 year old, but here are two shining solar images, one from Spain, one from Ireland. All goes to show the artistic instincts of the ceramicists is coming from the same place.
May 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I’m still doodling, well more like colouring in like a 7 year old, but here are two shining solar images, one from Spain, one from Ireland. All goes to show the artistic instincts of the ceramicists is coming from the same place.
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Frosty golden sunrise … but it’s refreshing and glorious!
Golden Prince too …
#Home #Ireland #SiberianForest #cat
Golden Prince too …
#Home #Ireland #SiberianForest #cat
May 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Frosty golden sunrise … but it’s refreshing and glorious!
Golden Prince too …
#Home #Ireland #SiberianForest #cat
Golden Prince too …
#Home #Ireland #SiberianForest #cat
Team Plurabelle Anna didn’t win on the Barrow today at Athy but they fought hard. Next time they are going for gold.
May 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Team Plurabelle Anna didn’t win on the Barrow today at Athy but they fought hard. Next time they are going for gold.
Members of Plurabelle Paddlers dragon boat crew (including my own sister Katherine on lhs) at today’s regatta in Athy, Co. Kildare. A great club dedicated to supporting breast cancer achievers (my preferred term)
May 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Members of Plurabelle Paddlers dragon boat crew (including my own sister Katherine on lhs) at today’s regatta in Athy, Co. Kildare. A great club dedicated to supporting breast cancer achievers (my preferred term)
A fantastic opportunity today in @nmireland.bsky.social to meet Prof Jorge Soler Diaz, Alicante, renowned specialist in the Neolithic; curator and author of Ídolo Miranda’s Milenarias; to introduce him to a fascinating object with Iberian connections all the way from Co. Kilkenny. More anon #único
May 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A fantastic opportunity today in @nmireland.bsky.social to meet Prof Jorge Soler Diaz, Alicante, renowned specialist in the Neolithic; curator and author of Ídolo Miranda’s Milenarias; to introduce him to a fascinating object with Iberian connections all the way from Co. Kilkenny. More anon #único
A very sad and devastating statement from the internationally known silversmith, Séamus Gill, whose studio was broken into at Easter. His entire collection & work in progress were stolen. Séamus worked with Brian Clarke and Michael Good on applying anti-clastic raising to Iron Age ribbon torcs.
April 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A very sad and devastating statement from the internationally known silversmith, Séamus Gill, whose studio was broken into at Easter. His entire collection & work in progress were stolen. Séamus worked with Brian Clarke and Michael Good on applying anti-clastic raising to Iron Age ribbon torcs.
Felices Pascuas desde el Palacio Real, Madrid
April 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Felices Pascuas desde el Palacio Real, Madrid
Imposible! Impossible to pick a few highlights from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid so here are a few favourites from the Iron Age. Personal ornaments in baked clay, bronze and gold plus terracotta figurines with several piercings from Ibiza.
April 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Imposible! Impossible to pick a few highlights from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid so here are a few favourites from the Iron Age. Personal ornaments in baked clay, bronze and gold plus terracotta figurines with several piercings from Ibiza.