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Jimmy Deenihan, Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht, has announced a programme to mark the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, despite being told to ‘shush’ by a security guard at Trinity College, Dublin, where the launch took place. The events to mark the battle will truly be on a national scale, with his … Read more

Viking art

James Graham Campbell Thames & Hudson £9.95 ISBN 9780500204191 Viking art is an illustrated study of the applied art of Scandinavia and the Scandinavian world in the period c. AD 800–1100. The subject is large in time-scale, in geographical area and in the range of decorated objects of differing scales and functions, materials, methods and … Read more