The National Museum of Ireland
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- The National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street is an essential part of Dublin. It is intertwined in the definition of Irishness and in presenting a overview of Irish history that is nuanced and complex, steering clear of jingoism or simplified portrayals. It is an essential stop on any visit to Dublin
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Good stuff mate
Thank you very much as always`!
Excellent. Well presented commentary. I always love to visit NMI archaeology when I'm up in Dublin. Informative and clear with your descriptions. Really enjoyable. Thank you.
Thank you very much. I'm glad you like it. The museum is really a special place.
Went there last month it was great mate
Being in the heart of Dublin The National museum of Ireland 🇮🇪 is fascinating ...
Thank you for the reminder I will get down there this week.
Thanks Kerry, you definitely should. I am long overdue a visit to Collins barracks myself
The astonishing artistry of bronze age smiths never ceases to amaze me, being, at one time, a metal worker myself... well, those works scream of such artistic sophistication that they immediately explode any illusions of primitiveness for me. ...Like some ancient cave paintings which show a comparable... pure beauty of line and form, again drawing myself, I'm left imagining them striving to perfect those works, mind's eye ablaze as they did so and, well... there's every bit of the intelligence in that endeavour as that found in the modern artist or craftsman obsessed with their work.
Very curious though, that period, like the Sutton Hoo artefacts... there's something about them that goes straight to my soul and makes me want to stare at them for hours on end revelling in the supreme luxury of their form. Mmm. Some weird thing. Same with those swords... talk about fairyland. Mmm. They really did have exquisite taste when it came to metal working.
Thanks for this.
You're welcome for your lovely comment. The artistry of those who made these works is just amazing. I would really love to see the Sutton Hoo artefacts. Maybe one day... :-)
Hi you said the Irish name for Ireland was only coined in1620? how can that be? and what were we calling it prior to that please.
Before that the Gaelic Irish called themselves Gael , everyone else was a foreigner. There was no Irish (or Gaelic if you prefer) word for Irish, meaning those from the island of Ireland, as opposed to the cultural category of Gael which also included the Gaelic people of Scotland
@@forasfeasaThanks I didn't realise the term Gael had lasted so long I had just figured it had changed somewhere in the Norman era or Irish was what the term they used for us kinda like Welsh and saxons.