Dublin City Council has launched a new pilot programme aimed at giving people an opportunity to learn all about the diverse archaeology of Dublin City The launch included a Living History display themed Viking Age Ireland & the Battle of Clontarf with three experts demonstrating a range of artefacts, costumes and skills such as sword […]
“Clontarf was too important to be left to the historians, so passed into the legend-maker’s hand.” Gwyn Jones, “A History of the Vikings” Written around 1280, “Njál’s Saga” is an Icelandic tale of vengeance and blood feuds among various groups of Vikings. It also includes a section on the Battle of Clontarf in Ireland and […]
Around the turn of the millennium, 1000 A.D., European civilization and all the rudiments of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian knowledge and tradition were on the verge of being violently extinguished. Historian, Richard Erdoes, details how the common people of Europe fully believed their world was coming to an end. Small wars among feuding Christian barons were […]
Had the Easter Rising gone ahead as planned on Sunday 23rd April 1916, it would have taken place on the anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf. Separated by 902 years, Cogadh Cluain Tarbh or the Battle of Clontarf took place in Dublin on the 23rd April 1014. At the time, the Irish High King Brian […]