TALES OF MEDIEVAL DUBLIN
LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES

The Friends of Medieval Dublin and Dublin City Council are pleased to announce the launch of TALES OF MEDIEVAL DUBLIN, a new monthly lunchtime lecture series, exploring the lives of seven different and fascinating inhabitants of Medieval Dublin. The lectures are themed around the tales of individuals from Dublin's history including an early abbot, a Viking skeleton, an Dublin merchant, an outlaw, a heretic, a wife and a knight.

It will be officially launched by the Lord Mayor, Cllr. Emer Costello, on Tuesday 15 June 2010 at 1.00pm in the new Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8. Following the launch, Seán Duffy will present 'The Abbot's Tale', the story of Abbot Beraid, the 7th century abbot of Dubh-Linn.

Each of the six subsequent lectures will run on a Tuesday mid-month from July to December in the Wood Quay Venue of Dublin City Council, against the unique backdrop of a stretch of the original Viking wall dating from the 12th century.

Taking place at 1.05pm until 1.45pm from June until December 2010, these lectures continue a now well established tradition of lunchtime lectures on Tuesdays on aspects of Dublin organised by the Friends of Medieval Dublin, Dublin City Council and also Christ Church cathedral over the last decade or so. Admission is free. There is no pre-registration required, and all are most welcome to attend.

For further information about the lecture series, please contact the Friends of Medieval Dublin on 087 6877156 or 086 8279858, or email: talesofmedievaldublin@gmail.com.

Full details of the lecture series are available below, or click here for a PDF (2.3Mb) of the poster for the lecture series.