King of the Vikings

26/08/2022

Great work going on in the Viking Triangle at the moment as the Viking longboat is being cleaned and repaired!

Pictured are Richard and Nesta from Mobiclean and shipwright Michael Kennedy.

18/08/2022

This week for heritage week we're all about wine! Today our Director, Eamonn McEneaney, is exploring the whole history of wine in Ireland. Check it out below.

https://waterfordtreasures.wixsite.com/wattreasuresblog/post/waterford-and-wine-through-the-centuries?fbclid=IwAR0CT_tJ9CNHf6h0CHjNP3vskNBXNuBV1KG509y4ql1ESDrdQ0x3Aj1oo5A

04/08/2022

14/07/2022

We're more than a little behind on our blogs these days but today we're looking at the Viking Slave Trade!

When Vikings first came to our shores all the way back in 795 one of the major things they were after were slaves. Indeed even today, many people in former Viking settlements like Iceland have Irish DNA due to the thousands of Irish people carried off on longships to far flung places.

Why were slaves crucial to Viking Society? What were their lives like? And more interestingly still, what were their (often gruesome) deaths like? Read all about it at the link below!

Many moons ago (at the beginning of Covid almost!) we published a blog on Irish involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and as was pointed out in the comments, this was far from the only time slavery made its way to our shores. In fact slavery came to Ireland many times. St. Patrick himself was...

15/06/2022

27/05/2022

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