I just heard about the live tweeting of the Battle of Clontarf, at @1014retold. Follow it today! At the Twitter here: @1014retold And the accompanying site is here: http://1014retold.com/ The Battle of Clontarf took place in 1014 AD. 1014! Do you know how far back in time that is? It's LONGER AGO than YOUR GRANNY! WHAT LITTLE I KNOW ABOUT THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF: A Big Battle that had Vikings and Irish fighting against each other (though in fairness, some Vikings fought with the Irish, as allies, and vice versa. It was a complicated time, ehhh...geo-politically...speaking. Ahem.). So Clontarf is to the Irish what Hastings is to the English. It was - apparently - the bloodiest space fantasy of them all, ever, in history, if, by "space fantasy", you mean "battle on Irish soil". ***SPOILER ALERT*** Brian Boru, Ireland's High King, led the Irish. (Not into battle, now, he was too elderly to do that, God love him.) The King of Leinster (the province in which mode...
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