Raghnall Ó Floinn
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art historian and former director of the
National Museum of Ireland (NMI), who joined its staff in 1976 and becoming its director in 2013.
Ó Floinn studied at
University College Dublin
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, attaining a MA in Celtic Archaeology in 1976, and joined the NMI that year as Assistant Keeper in the Irish Antiquities Division.
[Tuesday, Feb. 2: Dr. Raghnall O'floinn On The National Museum Of Ireland]
. Charitable Irish Society, 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2021 He has published a wide variety of books and papers on
bog bodies
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, the archeology of the early Irish church, and
Insular art (particularly metalwork). He co-authored an overview of the museum's collection with his predecessor as NMI director, Pat Wallace.
[Ó'Floinn; Wallace (2002), p. iv]
He has also acted as chairman of the Council of National Cultural Institutions, and a vice-chairman of the
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, London.
Selected publications
Books
* "Viking Graves and Grave-Goods in Ireland (Medieval Dublin Excavations 1962-81, Series B)" (2015).
* "Irish Shrines and Reliquaries of the Middle Ages (Irish treasures)" (2014).
* "Franciscan Faith: Sacred Art in Ireland, AD 1600-1750" (2011).
* "Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland: Irish Antiquities" (2002). Co-author with Patrick Wallace.
Monographs
* "The 'Shannon' shrine: a suggested provenance" (2015)
* " An Anglo-Saxon Disc-Brooch From Sjerring, Jutland" (2013)
* "Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age" (1998)
* "A Fragmentary House-Shaped Shrine from Clonard, Co. Meath". ''The Journal of Irish Archaeology'', volume. 5, 1989/1990
* "In Ireland and Insular Art A.D. 500–1200". ''Proceedings of a Conference at University College Cork, 31 October–3 November 1985''.
Royal Irish Academy
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References
Sources
* Ó Floinn, Raghnal; Wallace, Patrick (eds). ''Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland: Irish Antiquities''. National Museum of Ireland, 2002.
External links
The National Museum of Ireland - cultural tourism for all- video interview with Dr. Ó Floinn
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Irish art historians
People associated with the National Museum of Ireland