Call to have the Derrynaflan Chalice to be on display at the Rock of Cashel.
Found at a site near Cashel local people want the Derrynaflan Chalice displayed in the area and not at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.
This is art of such purity and quality that its brilliance has been undiminished in over a thousand years.
The chalice was wrought by the monks of a tiny settlement in a bog near Cashel. It shows the art of the Irish of a thousand years ago.
Every stroke and curve was in praise of God.
The Derrynaflan Chalice had lain hidden for hundreds of years in the grounds of a now ruined church around ten miles from Cashel. The chalice was rediscovered just three years ago by a man from Clonmel using a metal detector. The British Museum has now restored the chalice to its former glory and it is on display at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. The people of Cashel want the chalice returned to where it was created and found and on display in the Rock of Cashel, preferably in Cormac's Chapel.
Why must everything be in Dublin?
TJ Maher, MEP, argues the case as to why the chalice should be on display in Cashel. He believes that there is a need for decentralisation away from Dublin.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 5 August 1983. The reporter is Michael Ryan.
