Ireland’s Ancient Treasures

Gem Pursuit

Jewellery and history lovers listen up, we’re taking you on a Courtville field trip to one of Ireland’s most fascinating museums.

The National Museum of Ireland is filled with 4000 year old treasures and insights into the lives of our ancestors. Matthew and Alyce went to see some of the incredibly preserved jewellery and were absolutely blown away by pieces including incredibly crafted fibula brooches, huge gold torcs and mesmerising lunula. They share what they learned about jewellery in ancient Ireland and the ways it may have been used or worn, along with sharing their favourite pieces.

THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT

• The extensive collection of the National Museum of Ireland
• Bronze age jewellery including fibula, torcs and lunula
• Intricate and creative craftsmanship that was muted by colonialism
• Irish Gold, difficult to find but incredible to see
• Bog preserved bodies and artifacts that give us a look into the past

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QUOTES

Sometimes you forget, in little old Ireland, these gems that we have here. - Matthew Weldon

It's really crazy to think that people were walking around wearing these at 700 BC. - Alyce Ketcher

It’s a very high level of intelligence, to be able to create these things, or even have in your mind to design and then create it with the materials that you have at hand. - Alyce Ketcher

We have so much gold! - Matthew Weldon

The gold, the bronze, the other metals and the other items that are found, it gives us a really good indication of how people lived back then. So we're very thankful for the bogs. - Alyce Ketcher

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