Patrick Geoghegan
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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Okay, well we're having good fun tonight exploring and excavating medieval Dublin.
We're gonna take a quick break now, but when we come back, I'll be chatting about some of these people in some of the friars in the the the hospital and some sexual impropriety, and we're also gonna find out about the Norse version of Tristan and Isolda and how some of these traders and how some of the Irish elements appear in it.
That's all coming up right after this.
Well, welcome back to
Talking History as we explore and excavate medieval Dublin.
I'm delighted to be joined by Dr.
Ruth Johnson, Dublin City Archaeologist, Paul Duffy, an archaeologist, historian, and author, Dr.
Grace O'Keefe, the editor of Archaeology Ireland, and Dr.
Catherine Swift of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick.
Catherine, can we talk about your own article?
Because it is fascinating about these Norwegian traders and skinners, because what I really
What I really was fascinated by was the fact that you find these traders appearing in sagas, uh Norwegian sagas, for example, the Norse version of Tristan and Isolde, uh you have references to it.
So it's interesting the way you have so much evidence from outside of this island.
And you also see uh references to the fur trade uh in the Arthurian legends as well, 'cause it really again shows how how international this industry was.
It's also interesting to see how much you can learn from the walrus and uh the DNA of these walrus remains because I'm used to reading about uh looking at uh ancient or medieval uh or early modern uh human DNA and and and trying to get some evidence from that.
But uh to do it from the walrus, what can you discover?
And some of the uh when you look at the the use of language, some of the loan words uh were then uh translated into Irish.
So uh the fact that you see this kind of cross pollination of of of of particular words vocabulary, that kind of shows how the the cultures and the societies are interacting as well.
No, extraordinary.
Now, Grace, you have a fascinating article on the many priors of St.
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