Sean Duffy: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf [2013] hardback WWII TILL DEATH US DO PART

TILL DEATH US DO PART

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Sean Duffy: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf [2013] hardback WWII TILL DEATH US DO PARTBrian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf