Battle of Clontarf Commemoration, April 2014
Fingal County Council are planning a major weekend of events to commmeorate the Battle of Clontarf and the death of Brian Boru.
As part of the lead up to the wekend, Fingal County Council are holding a series of Poetry Workshops leading into a poetry competition. Baldoyle Library organised for poet, Maighread Medbh to visit St. Mary's to give a workshop on an Exploration of Poetry and History to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf. The workshop centred on the writing of poems on the subject of the Battle of Clontarf and related matters. The writing of the poems will focus on creativity, historical knowledge and personal confidence The workshop also concentrated on how the students presented the poems |