Week 16... Thursday 12 April... Gold (Ór) National Museum Dublin
Ór - Ireland's Gold
As a family we spent a few days in Dublin after Easter and during this wee break I took the opportunity to visit the The National Museum of Ireland. The museum's collection of prehistoric goldwork, ranging in date between 2200 BC and 500 BC, is one of the largest and most important in western Europe. It was beyond words how beautiful these ancient pieces are.... people talk about Aztec Gold and Egyptian Gold but the Irish pre-historic gold collection is amazing... well worth a visit. 

Not from the Gold collection but rather from the Early Christian collections - the final photograph is the Shrine of St Patrick's Tooth - a wooden shrine encased in bronze and decorated with ecclesiastical figures and a setting of gold, silver, brass and amber. The tooth reputedly fell out of St Patrick's mouth on to the doorstep of St Brone's Church, County Sligo.