<p>The most comprehensive and authoritative work ever published on The National Museum of Ireland's antiquities collection, comprising some of the most important Celtic and pre--Celtic artifacts in the world.</p>

Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland

Arts & Photography

O'Floinn, Raghnall

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Gill Macmillan Ltd

The volume is the first comprehensive catalogue and detailed discussion of over 400 artifacts from more than a hundred furnished Viking graves in Ireland, many published for the first time. The volume includes the first detailed study of the archives of the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Irish Antiquities Division of the National Museum of Ireland, key resources for those interested in the history of museums in Ireland and in 19th and 20th century collectors and collecting. The grave-goods (both Insular and Scandinavian) are the subject of detailed examination, with separate sections devoted to weapons, dress ornaments and jewelry, tools, equestrian equipment and miscellaneous artifacts. The volume also contains a discussion of grave distribution, form, orientation, ritual and contents. While much of the text is given over to the Kilmainham-Islandbridge burial complex - now confirmed as by far the largest cemetery of its type in the Viking west - the monograph also includes details of the Viking graves from elsewhere in Dublin, and from the rest of Ireland.

Viking Graves and Grave-Goods in Ireland (Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81, Series B)

History

Harrison, Stephen J.

Europe

National Museum of Ireland

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