''A History of Ireland in 100 Objects'' was a joint project by ''

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'', the

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, and the

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to define one hundred archaeological or cultural objects that are important in the

history of Ireland The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 34,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of ''Homo sapiens'' to around 10,500 to 7,000 BC. The receding of the ice after the Younger Dryas cold phase of the Qua ...

. The objects are single man-made artefacts or documents, excluding buildings, ranging in date from about 5,000 BC (

Mesolithic The Mesolithic (Ancient Greek language, Greek: μέσος, ''mesos'' 'middle' + λίθος, ''lithos'' 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic. The term Epipaleolithic i ...

) to the early 21st century. Most of the objects are held in accessible collections in the

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. Details of the hundred objects, written by ''Irish Times'' journalist

Fintan O'Toole Fintan O'Toole (born 16 February 1958) is an Irish journalist, literary editor, and drama critic for ''The Irish Times'', for which he has written since 1988. He was drama critic for the ''New York Daily News'' from 1997 to 2001 and is Advisin ...

, were initially serialized in ''The Irish Times'' between February 2011 and January 2013. In February 2013 a book about the hundred objects written by O'Toole, entitled ''A History of Ireland in 100 Objects'', was published, and it quickly became a best-seller with 35,000 free downloads. In January 2017

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announced that a selection of the 100 objects would form the subjects for the 9th definitive postage stamp series for Ireland, to be issued over a period of five or six years from 2017. The first set of stamps featuring twelve of the objects were issued in January 2017, consisting of eight different SOAR (Stamps on a Roll) stamps with various values (€0.05 to €7.50), a range coil stamps, and a national (N) and an international (W) rate stamp booklet.

List of objects

Objects for which there is a specific Wikipedia article are given in bold type.

References

External links

A History of Ireland in 100 Objects, a selection (1-95 complete)

A History of Ireland in 100 Objects: Follow the Trail
{{DEFAULTSORT:History Of Ireland In 100 Objects Historiography of Ireland Historical objects

List of objects

See also

Further reading

References

External links