Ulster in the Viking Age / Michael Sheane.
Material type: TextPublication details: Ilfracombe : Arthur H. Stockwell, 2011.Description: 72 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780722340851 (pbk.) :
- 9780722340851
- 941.601 SHE
- DA990.U46
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 941.601 SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 215250 |
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941.57 KIL The decade of the United Irishmen : contemporary accounts, 1791-1801 / | 941.59 MCC Trade Unions in Ireland 1894-1960 / | 941.6 TON Northern Ireland : conflict and change / | 941.601 SHE Ulster in the Viking Age / | 941.606 MCC The flight of the Earls/ | 941.60824 Postnationalist Ireland : politics, literature, philosophy. | 941.60824 MCG Explaining Northern Ireland : broken images / |
Includes bibliographical references.
1.The viking menace -- 2.Viking intentions -- 3.How the Ulstermen lived -- 4.Armagh -- 5.Bards -- 6.Viking gifts -- 7.Norse life in Ulster -- 8.An age of transformation -- 9.Olaf of the shoes -- 10.Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf -- 11.Brian Boru and the aftermath of Clontarf -- 12.The vikings in Scotland and abroad.
This title tells how, loaded with plunder, the dragon-headed longships swept across the waves for home. Behind them Rathlin Island, five miles off the Ulster coast, was ablaze, its monastery desecrated, its monks terrorized and its precious illuminated manuscripts destroyed.