BUS TOUR: DISTILLING – THE THEORY AND PRACTICE

September 13, 2017 → 2:00 pm ─ 5:00 pm

| £10

Join experts from Scapa and Highland Park for special tours of both. Over-18s only, booking essential. Tickets £10.
Organised by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD) and sponsored by the two distilleries

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A song about ancient Ireland, composed and sung by Lorcán Mac Mathúna, accompanying dramatised scenes from the battle of Clontarf, fought on Good Friday 1014. Irish and Icelandic accounts describe how the army of the Irish High King Brian Boru defeated a Norse invasion force led by Earl Sigurd of Orkney. The state of the tide played a role in the battle, enabling the Norse ships to land in the early morning but later cutting off the retreating Norsemen from them. A 19th-century calculation of the tides in the area confirmed the chroniclers’ details.