"This collection of essays originated in a symposium held in Dublin in April 2011, the theme of which was Viking-age Ireland and its wider connections" -- page xii.
In memoriam Richard Hall (1949-2011)
Foreword / Owen Keegan, Chief Executive, Dublin City Council
Part I. In Prospect
1. Ireland and the Viking Age / Howard B. Clarke & Ruth Johnson
Part II. 2. Before the Battle
Written sources for pre-Christian sanctuaries in northern Europe / Signe Horn Fuglesang
3. The first generation in Ireland, 795{u2013}812: Viking raids and Viking bases? / Emer Purcell
4. The longphort in Viking-Age Ireland: the archaeological evidence / Eamonn P. Kelly
5. Viking camps and the means of exchange in Britain and Ireland in the ninth century / Gareth Williams
6. Vikings in Annagassan: the evidence of the annals and the wider context / Colmán Etchingham
7. A Viking warrior grave from Dublin / Linzi Simpson
8. The Ballinderry bow: an under-appreciated Viking weapon? / Andy Halpin
9. Fighting with silver: the Woodstown assemblage / John Sheehan
10. The Viking glass beads from Dunmore Cave, Co. Kilkenny / Joanne O'Sullivan
11. Viking Limerick and its hinterland / Brian Hodkinson
12. The break-up of Dál Riata and the rise of the Gallgoídil / Clare Downham
13. Mind the gap: the supposed hiatus in Irish art of the tenth century / Ruth Johnson
Part III. During the Battle
14. A man of two faces: Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill in Middle Irish sources / Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
15. King Sitriuc Silkenbeard: a great survivor / Howard B. Clarke
Part IV. After the Battle
16. Through a glass darkly: some sidelights on Viking influence on personal names and place-names in Ireland / Gillian Fellows-Jensen
17. Costumes and contact: evidence for Scandinavian women in the Irish Sea region / Christina Lee
18. The environment of Viking-Age settlements: recent evidence from Ireland to Russia / Eileen Reilly
19. Where are the longhouses? Reviewing Ireland's Viking-Age buildings / Rebecca Boyd
20. Viking-Age domestic settlement at 26{u2013}29 Castle Street, Dublin: a preliminary view based on archaeological excavations / Martin Byrne
21. Prelude to Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage: the Castle Street and Werburgh Street hoards / Andrew Woods
22. Copies or creations? Some shared elements in Hiberno-Norse and Scandinavian artwork / Uaininn O'Meadhra
23. Practice makes perfect? Motif-pieces as tools of communication and the exchange of tacit artistic knowledge in Viking-Age Dublin / Jessica L. McGraw 24. The art of politics: the Cross of Cong and the Hiberno-Urnes style / Griffin Murray
25. Rathdown slabs revisited / Christiaan Corlett
26. Celtic berserkers and feeble steersmen: Hiberno-Scandinavian military culture in Middle Irish literature / Catherine Swift
Part V. In Retrospect
27. Irish Sea identities and interconnections during the Viking Age / David Griffiths
28. Vikings in Ireland: the catastrophe / Donnchadh Ó Corráin.
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The Vikings in Ireland and beyond : before and after the battle of Clontarf. ISBN 9781846824951. Published by Four Courts Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
