Claddagh Ring Museum
Tiny free museum of early clasped-hands rings, goldsmiths' tools and old photographs behind a jeweller's.
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This guide to the Claddagh Ring Museum in Galway follows Richard Joyce, a son of one of the city's merchant Tribes, who sailed for the West Indies in the sixteen-seventies and was taken by Algerian corsairs before he ever arrived. It moves between a goldsmith's workshop in Algiers, the court of William the Third, and the Irish-speaking fishing village of the Claddagh with its own elected king. Stand by the cases of early rings at the back of the shop, and look for the tailor's pin.
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