PINK FIR APPLE, SHARPE’S EXPRESS, SHETLAND BLACKS, SETANTA

September 13, 2017 → 11:30 am ─ 12:30 pm

| £3 – £5

Liz Ashworth and Richard Shearer discuss heritage potatoes: how they developed and how to cook them. Canapés and cake to follow. Tickets £5 & £3.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIFE
HYDROGEN FOR ORKNEY

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.