The Vikings in Ireland and beyond

Before and after the battle of Clontarf

Foreword by Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council

Part I. In Prospect

Ireland and the Viking Age
Howard B. Clarke & Ruth Johnson

Part II. Before the Battle

Written sources for pre-Christian sanctuaries in northern Europe
Signe Horn Fuglesang

The first generation in Ireland, 795–812: Viking raids and Viking bases?
Emer Purcell

The longphort in Viking-Age Ireland: the archaeological evidence
Eamonn P. Kelly

Viking camps and the means of exchange in Britain and Ireland in the ninth century
Gareth Williams

Vikings in Annagassan: the evidence of the annals and the wider context
Colmán Etchingham

A Viking warrior grave from Dublin
Linzi Simpson

The Ballinderry bow: an under-appreciated Viking weapon?
Andy Halpin

Fighting with silver: the Woodstown assemblage
John Sheehan

The Viking glass beads from Dunmore Cave, Co. Kilkenny
Joanne O’Sullivan

Viking Limerick and its hinterland
Brian Hodkinson

The break-up of Dál Riata and the rise of the Gallgoídil
Clare Down ham

Mind the gap: the supposed hiatus in Irish art of the tenth century
Ruth Johnson

Part III. During the Battle

A man of two faces: Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill in Middle Irish sources
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh

King Sitriuc Silkenbeard: a great survivor
Howard B. Clarke

Part IV. After the Battle

Through a glass darkly: some sidelights on Viking influence on personal names and place-names in Ireland
Gillian Fellows-Jensen

Costumes and contact: evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region
Christina Lee

The environment of Viking-Age settlements: recent evidence from Ireland to Russia
Eileen Reilly

Where are the longhouses? Reviewing Ireland’s Viking-Age buildings
Rebecca Boyd

Viking-Age domestic settlement at 26–29 Castle Street, Dublin: a preliminary view based on archaeological excavations
Martin Byrne

Prelude to Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage: the Castle Street and Werburgh Street hoards
Andrew Woods

Copies or creations? Motif-pieces as tools of communication and the exchange of tacit artistic knowledge in Viking-Age Dublin
Jessica L. McGraw

The art of politics: the Cross of Cong and the Hiberno-Urnes style
Griffin Murray

Rathdown slabs revisited
Christiaan Corlett

Celtic berserkers and feeble steersmen: Hiberno-Scandinavian military culture in Middle Irish literature
Catherine Swift

Part V. In Retrospect

Irish Sea identities and interconnections during the Viking Age
David Griffiths

Vikings in Ireland: the catastrophe
Donnchadh Ó Corráin