I wanted them all! Ultimately, I decided on sonas (happiness) to symbolize how I felt about being in Ireland. It took me two days to choose my pendant. Ogham Treasure holds words like happiness, friend, blessing, health. Most of the surviving monuments carry names or other marks of ownership. The ones with words carved into silver ingots resemble the stone monuments on which the ancient Ogham was inscribed. The ones that are simply characters might bring fish skeletons to mind. Ogham Treasure pendants come in two styles.
The one above is inscribed with grá, which means love in Gaelic. The silver pendants, designed and made by Katie McCay herself, carry words in an ancient secret alphabet: the Ogham (pronounced OH-am).
Michael Jackson needed two hours.īut the moment I saw the Ogham Treasure, I knew why I was there. The tiny shop is filled to the rafters with interesting, beautiful things! It takes time to explore it. Her gallery has been offering the wares of Irish designers and makers since 1990. Its owner, Katie McCay, grew up in the building and played in the empty storefront as a child. The Bastion Gallery is named for the street it sits on, a reminder that Athlone was once fortified. I sensed something more than the colourful window display was enticing me. Yet I felt compelled to come back the next day.
Just like the other gallery, it was closed. The same way triple spirals pulled me to a locked gallery door, a mysterious force drew me inside the Bastion Gallery in Athlone. Ogham treasure in Athlone’s Bastion Gallery
0 kommentar(er)
