16.09.2024
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Dublin Festival of History International Viking Event:
Governing Dublin in the Viking-Age
For the seventh year running, the National University of Ireland, Dublin City Council, and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ireland are pleased to collaborate and contribute a Viking-studies event to the Dublin Festival of History Programme. This year, in association with the Friends of Medieval Dublin, we are honoured to host a lecture by Professor Alex Woolf, who will present his latest research on Viking-Age Dublin.
We are used to reading and hearing about the wars fought by the fleets and armies of Dublin against their Irish neighbours and against the West Saxon kings who sought to drive them out of northern England. This lecture, however, will focus on the way Dublin developed as a community and how it governed itself and was governed by others in the course of the Viking Age and how it transformed itself from a nest of pirates to a commercial and political hub. Kings, earls, Dubliners, subjects and neighbours will all be considered.
We are used to reading and hearing about the wars fought by
the fleets and armies of Dublin against their Irish neighbours and
against the West Saxon kings who sought to drive them out of
northern England. This lecture, however, will focus on the way Dublin
developed as a community and how it governed itself and was governed
by others in the course of the Viking Age and how it transformed itself from
a nest of pirates to a commercial and political hub. Kings, earls,
Dubliners, subjects and neighbours will all be considered.
Governing Dublin in the Viking-Age
Alex Woolf is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His main interests lie in the history of Britain and Ireland before the coming of the Normans with a bias towards the earlier part of the period, c.400-900. Particular interests include ethnic interaction and language shift, the development of political structures, and social and economic history.
Places for in-person attendance are limited; however, the lecture will also be recorded and available to view a few days later here on our website or on our Vimeo page.
We look forward to having you join us!
Registration is free of charge.
The Dublin Festival of History (DFOH) takes place from 27 September to 13 October 2024
Dublin Festival of History programme
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