THE HIGHLAND PARK CEILIDH

September 13, 2017 → 8:00 pm ─ 11:59 pm

| £10

With Aff The Kuff, and Lewis Hou’s fiddle and dance steps, for would-be and why-not dancers of all ages. Tickets (including light supper) £10.
Sponsored by Highland Park

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FROM ROCKY KARST TO SUNLIT SEA
EBBAN AN’ FLOWAN

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.