Ireland

Viking Textile and Craft Demonstrations

Viking textile and craft demonstration
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Organised by
Dublinia Heritage Centre (IE)
Country
Ireland

Léine, a group of expert medieval crafters, will explore and demonstrate the skills of an early medieval homestead – especially Viking.  Techniques used in Norse (Viking) clothing will be demonstrated such as spinning, sprang weaving and naalbinding – a craft somewhere between knotting and knitting used to make sturdy and comfortable socks and mittens).  Also, tablet weaving, decorati

Viking Weaponry

Viking Weaponry
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Organised by
Dublinia Heritage Centre (IE)
Country
Ireland

Find out all about arms and armour in Ireland c. 795 – 1171.  A wide range of reproductions will be presented showing the equipment used in Viking Age Ireland including swords, shields, spears, bows, and axes, the skills and tactics of these shall also be discussed in detail.

Medieval Fair

Medieval Fair
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Organised by
Dublinia Heritage Centre (IE)
Country
Ireland

New for 2020, join all the magic of the Medieval Fair this mid-term break

Transport yourself back to Fairgreen in Dublin and join us for our special Medieval Fair on Saturday and Sunday the 15th and 16th of February. Montague Heritage Services, Living History experts, will be demonstrating a specific skill of medieval crafts you would have found at the fair, they will include

Making, Multi-Vocality and Experimental Archaeology: The Pallasboy Project

Author(s)
Benjamin Gearey 1 ✉,
Mark Griffiths 2,3,
Brian Mac Domhnaill 4,
Cathy Moore 4,
Orla-Peach Power 5
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/4
This paper outlines The Pallasboy Project, which set out to craft a replica of the eponymous Irish Iron Age wooden vessel. We consider the process and progress of the project, as it developed in a number of slightly unusual directions. The paper includes a description of the experimental work, alongside personal reflections and comments by...

Steel Bangers Festival

Blacksmithing Festival
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Organised by
Irish National Heritage Park (INHP) (IE)
Country
Ireland

Experience heat and iron as the forges of fire at The Irish National Heritage Park are fired up for the inaugural Steel Bangers Festival on September 14th and 15th. Our resident Blacksmith will bring his crew of metal workers and steel artists to the Medieval Lodge in the heart of the Park and they will stoke the forges and tell the story of iron and steel and the pivotal role it played in

Let’s Do the Tine Warp Again: Reconstructing a Late Bronze Age Bridle from Moynagh Lough, County Meath, Ireland

Author(s)
Rena Maguire 1 ✉
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2019/3

Under Starters Orders: An introduction to the experiment

Horses and equitation are often associated with Ireland; coins of the pre-Euro modern period displayed Irish hunters, and florid Victorian art imagined the heroes of the Táin (the early medieval Irish saga of gods, bulls and heroes) in chariots drawn by fiery steeds. That image has persisted despite archaeological evidence, or lack thereof. There is a considerable lack of understanding of the prehistoric use of the horse, and even the types of animals present.