I recently did a wonderful module in college which took in early Dublin life, and the walled viking town. After any degree of research into Viking Dublin, one can’t help but see the Civic Offces at Wood Quay as perhaps the greatest defeat of Irish historians and archaeologists.
Today, I stumbled across this gem on YouTube from 1979.
Excellent, and a YouTube gem providing interesting insight into long and hard fought political campaign.
For anyone interested in this period of history, you could do worse than to check out the Irish History Podcast homepage, where you’ll find a series of podcasts on the Vikings.
Outline of a viking plot today, beside Christchurch at Wood Quay.
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My great-grandfather did his shoemakers apprenticeship in 10 Wood Quay. A few years after his marriage to my great-grandmother in 1866 he set up his own business in James’s St. at the Fountain and was there until he retired in 1920.
Had I know this at the time of the 1979 campaign I would have had an additional interest in it. Family are a bit closer that the Vikings 🙂
I too have ancestors who worked and lived in the Wood Quay area. My father spent his early years there.
PS: I was told that Wood Quay in those days, which was predominantly associated with shoemaking (check out Thoms) was actually an extension of Castle St. which was likewise. Checked it out, looks very convincing. Civic Trust now on the premises of one of the last shoemakers in Castle St.
Passing thought: Isn’t Kevin Kearns marvellous in his recording of such a huge volume of the then extant oral tradition in Dublin.
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