Introduction
6th class pupils recently went to the Dundalk museum to learn about a variety of historic artefacts and construct a small St. Brigids cross accessory that would later be put on to a large cross on display in the museum. Prior mentioned artefacts us students learned about were things like bronze age tools, ancient Egyptian artefacts, great inventors from Dundalk such as Peter Rice who worked on giant structural projects like the Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Center, Kansai airport terminal in Japan and many more.
There was a model of a Heinkel Kabine (also known as the Bubble car) which was produced majorly during the 50s and 60s in Dundalk. The pupils had an amazing time searching and exploring different parts of the three story museum and it was overall a great experience.
Zane Ali
On the 20th of January 6th class took a trip to County Museum in Dundalk organized by Bridget. They left the school at 9:30am and returned at 12:45pm. Firstly, 6th A took a walk around Dundalk looking at and learning about all the murals, while 6th B attended the workshop in the museum. Unfortunately, it started raining so 6th A had to cut their walk short and 6th B never managed to get out for their walk. When 6th A came back to the museum, they looked at the first exhibition on the ground floor which included some modern historical artifacts. When it was time, they went upstairs to do some St. Brigid’s art, which was to be added to a bigger art display the museum was presenting on St Brigid’s day.
Both classes produced a beautiful celtic triquetra using pipe cleaners. They then had to glue this to a plaque and paint it.
It was a fun and educational day out and we’d recommend everyone pay a visit to Dundalk museum, we’re really lucky to have it!
Charlotte Thoyne
The pupils had a quiz where they had to investigate the different pieces of writing across the different floors, with there being 4 floors in total the quiz was very diverse and not all questions answered in one area leading pupils to have to look around everywhere. They learned a lot from this quiz such as what the hunter gatherers used as weapons or how the forges hundreds of years ago worked.
There were other parts of the museum that had real examples of things such as on the second floor there was a life size souterrain and a life size living room from the 1900s. Although the museum is focusing on Ireland history, there was a bronze age section and an iron age section. In those sections the pupils got to find out what the cavemen and Irish warriors used for survival.
Alex Mc Fadden
To represent St Brigid’s Day, we crafted our own Trinity knot out of pipe cleaners and painted it over with gold paint. We also wrote our names in Ogham- an ancient alphabet, the earliest known writing system in Ireland, used from about the 4th to the 9th centuries to write the early Irish but some of the letters such as; J, K, Q, V, W, X, and Y are not in the Ogham alphabet. So some had created theirs. Since St Brigid’s Day is coming up, The Dundalk Museum is opening on The 1st of February ,which is on a Sunday. And our Trinity knot art will be on display.
Vanessa Korri
When our pupils were on the second floor of the museum some students were fascinated by them. The artefact collection had funerary masks, shabtis and much more that showed a sneak peek of ancient Egypt . It was very interesting and a fascinating collection that I thought might be the best thing in the museum and that is of a very high standard. And I think you should at least see it once in your life because it is very interesting.
Sebastian Roland
