See Rome and die: the burial-place of Donnchad mac Briain

When Brian Boru was killed at the Battle of Clontarf he left two sons chall-enging each other for the succession, half-brothers of whom the older was Donnchad, son of the […]

Sidelines

Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, has announced a programme to mark the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, despite being told to ‘shush’ by a security […]

Countdown to 2016 : Larne Gunrunning

In anticipation of the possibility of Home Rule, Edward Carson and James Craig founded the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in early 1913. Their intention was that unionists in the north […]

From village to suburb: the building of Clontarf since 1760

Claire Gogarty Clontarf Books £30 ISBN 9781782801702 Clontarf these days, to outsiders at least, seems no more than an amorphous part of the suburbs that stretch without interruption around Dublin […]

Viking art

James Graham Campbell Thames & Hudson £9.95 ISBN 9780500204191 Viking art is an illustrated study of the applied art of Scandinavia and the Scandinavian world in the period c. AD […]