Exhibition
The Battle of Clontarf exhibition is now open in the Academy Library. The exhibition draws on the Academy Library collections and displays manuscripts relating to Brian Boru, and variant versions of the story of the Battle, told through the centuries. Antiquarian drawings and maps of the Clontarf area are also included in the exhibition.
Exhibition open 10am to 5pm on weekdays from 4 March to 28 June 2014, except on conference days.
Lectures
Lectures are held in the Meeting Room of the Royal Irish Academy, 13.00-14.00 hours. All welcome. No need to book except for 22 May programme. Groups should please phone 01-6090620 in advance or email library@ria.ie. Details as follows:
Tuesday 25 Febuary Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, MRIA, NUI Galway ‘The Vikings in Ireland: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’
Tuesday 4 March Seán Duffy, TCD ‘Winners and losers at the Battle of Clontarf’
Tuesday 11 March Colm Lennon, MRIA, NUI Maynooth ‘The Battle of Clontarf in Irish history and legend’
Tuesday 18 March Meidhbhín Ní Urdail, UCD ‘The Battle of Clontarf story in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish manuscripts’
Tuesday 1 April Donnchadh Ó Corráin, MRIA, UCC ‘Dál Cais, Déis, Ó Briain – changing places, changing identities’
Tuesday 8 April Stephen Harrison ‘The Battle of Clontarf: the archaeological evidence?’
On Thursday, 22 May the RIA presents a special programme, consisting of two lectures hosted respectively by the Embassies of Denmark and Norway in Ireland. Click here to book.
12:00-12.45 Dr Anne Pedersen, National Museum of Denmark,Copenhagen, ‘ Power and Politics in late Viking-Age Denmark’
12.45–13.30 Jon Vidar Sigurdsson, NUI Maynooth/University of Oslo ‘Ireland, Norway and Iceland in the second half of the 13th century ’
13.30–14.00 Questions and Answers