This cabinet tells the story of the 1798 United Irishmen rebellion. The United Irishmen were a group of mainly middle-class Presbyterian merchants who undertook violent revolution to establish an independent Irish republic free of British control. They took their inspiration…
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The Girona was one of the 130 ships that sailed in the Spanish Armada that aimed to land a Spanish Army in England in 1588 to depose Protestant Queen Elisabeth 1 and restore England to the Catholic faith. The Armada…
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This cabinet contains the Clonemore Shrine. It is the earliest example of Christian metalwork in Ireland dating from the seventh century AD and found in a field near Clonmore, County Armagh in 1990. It is a reliquary for the storage…
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This sandstone chair is believed to be the only surviving example of an inauguration chair that was used to coronate new Gaelic chieftains when they inherited their titles, responsibilities and lands in the medieval to the early modern period. This…
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This cabinet contains two examples of Bronze age gold jewellery; the Corrard Torc and Inch Bulla. Both date from around 3,000 years ago and are fine examples of Celtic metalwork. The Torc (above) was found at Corrard, County Fermanagh in…
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