Through the thousand years and more of Dublin’s history as a grand theatre of power - from Viking to Norman to English colony - what brought ordinary folk onto the streets to cheer, jeer, celebrate, commiserate, hinder or help their own? No doubt they ran down to the muddy Liffey...
The like had never been seen before: four hundred mounted, fearsome, chain mailed knights, four thousand sharp eyed archers, legions of dour gentlemen, richly robed and bejewelled, and the king, Henry ll, in all his royal splendour. Surely, only the cries of the gulls were heard above this parade of...