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The Tara Brooch: an amazing triumph of Irish craftsmanship

This video was first published for Mythical Ireland patrons on Patreon.com/mythicalireland in March 2024. The world-famous Tara Brooch – one of Ireland’s greatest treasures – has no known connection with the early medieval High Kings of the Hill of Tara. It is the finest piece of ornamented metal jewellery from medieval Ireland, and is made from bronze, silver and gold. The Tara brooch is elaborately decorated on both faces. The intricate craftsmanship of the exceptionally fine gold filigree panels depicting animal and abstract motifs is outstanding. There are studs of glass, enamel and amber. The back is flatter than the front and the decoration was cast. The brooch was reportedly found by a peasant woman’s children at Bettystown beach in County Meath, not far from where the river Boyne meets the Irish Sea. It is thought the brooch might have been found elsewhere and the woman’s family changed details of the discovery to avoid any dispute with the owner of the land where it was really found. The woman offered the brooch for sale to the owner of an old iron shop in nearby Drogheda. He refused to purchase it, thinking it insignificant! It was then bought by a watchmaker in Drogheda, who cleaned it up and brought it to Waterhouse Jewellers in Dame Street, Dublin, who paid “nearly as many pounds sterling” as the Drogheda watchmaker had paid pence for it! By the 1860s the Tara Brooch was in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy, who purchased it for two hundred pounds – quite a lot of money in those days. It had been sold “on the express condition that it should never be allowed to leave Ireland”. Sir William Wilde (father of poet and playwright Oscar Wilde) described it as having been found “in the excavation for the harbour wall at the mouth of the river Boyne, near Drogheda, in an oak box” along with other silver objects. Whatever the truth about where it was found, the Dame Street jeweller George Waterhouse was the one who gave it the name “Tara Brooch, a clever ploy to increase its value and interest in it. The Tara Brooch was one of the great showpieces at the Great Exhibition of London in 1851 and the Paris Exposition Universelle, and was later visited at the Dublin exhibition by Queen Victoria in 1853. The Tara Brooch is now on display in the Treasury room of the National Museum of Ireland (Archaeology) in Kildare Street, Dublin, where you can visit it free of charge. Read more here: https://mythicalireland.com/blogs/new... Visit the website: https://mythicalireland.com/ Subscribe to the mailing list: https://mythicalireland.com/pages/new... Become a patron:   / mythicalireland   Buy my books: https://mythicalireland.com/collectio... Get the Mythical Ireland K67 t-shirt: https://mythicalireland.com/products/... Limited edition prints: https://mythicalireland.com/collectio... Gift vouchers: https://mythicalireland.com/products/... Blog: https://mythicalireland.com/blogs/news Facebook page:   / mythicalireland   Facebook Community:   / mythicalirelandgroup   Instagram:   / mythicalireland   YouTube:    / mythicalireland   Twitter/X:   / mythicalireland   Threads: https://www.threads.net/@mythicalireland Mythical Ireland tours: https://mythicalireland.com/collectio... Google Reviews: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Myt...