Dr Ruth Johnson
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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Well, there's quite a lot going on at the moment in Dublin.
Um it's always a movable feast.
Excavations come and go basically um because of developments that are happening around the city.
And we're tasked with with really ensuring that those excavations are done, that the sites are investigated before the development proceeds, and where possible we try and preserve archaeology in situ.
So I suppose the most um uh well known site will be on Capel Street and though Donovan
Is excavating that with Courtney Dairy Archaeology in advance of uh a new hotel that's going to be built on Capel Street, and they found the
the graveyard of the Abbey, uh which Abbey Street gets its name from, which is Saint Mary's Abbey, which is uh was founded in the twelfth century in Dublin.
Um that's really an exciting excavation.
Uh Paul has a couple of things going on as well in the city and he's uh a very busy man I would say, aren't you Paul?
Yeah, well I suppose Ireland, you know, as the land of saints and scholars in the early medieval period had this connection, um, this European connection uh with monks travelling famously um abroad um to Germany and various places.
But then in the in the Viking Age, of course, uh Dublin was like really the centre of the Western kind of Viking colonies and it
was like on a very important sea route uh between uh Scandinavia so they would have travelled from Scandinavia from Northern Scandinavia uh over to Scotland, Northern Isles, Hebrides, up to Iceland, down down the Irish Sea, and Dublin was a really really important um emporium and trading place.
So it was just um a hotbed of of uh you would have heard many many different languages spoken uh really from
From the 8th century onwards, you would have heard all sorts of different languages spoken, obviously Scandinavian and Irish, but English, all sorts of things.
And then, of course, in the Anglo-Norman invasion, then it became kind of I suppose an international colonial capital for the English colony.
So yeah, it's it's it it's a fascinating place, and it's very important to.
internationally and nationally.
Ah look, it's it's the highlight of the year really for for me anyway.
I'm a friend of medieval Dublin for a long time.
Um, study medieval history in Trinity and Dublin City Council subvents the the the book, the annual proceedings of of the symposium.
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