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The Annagassan Viking Festival for 2008 is over.
To view photos of
the event, please click
here
This year’s
Viking festival was again an overwhelming success.
Participating Vikings from Denmark, Isle of Man, Co. Down and
Dublin made the event culturally more authentic by recreating a
working Viking village. Many thanks to all the local
craftspeople and food producers who once again showcased the
wealth of talent that exists in our area.
Unfortunately
we did not break the record for the world’s tallest dog but Anne o Kieffe has to be congratulated for organizing this “dog show”
with a difference!!
Our festival
could not run if wasn’t for the kind donations received from our
sponsors and we thanks them sincerely and hope they will
continue to support us in the coming years.
Finally I'd
like to thank all our volunteers, committee and the community in
general for being so supportive over the last year in giving up
some of their much valued time. Preparations have already begun
for the 2009 Annagassan Viking Festival which promises to be bigger and
better... We look forward to seeing you all there!
Conor O'Neill
(Film kindly
supplied by Ember Films)
For all of you who
enjoyed the history tours and
Viking
village at the Viking Festival, here
is a
link
to the
County Louth Archaeological And Historical Society, who
run
different excursions around
Co
Louth and also have
copies of papers about the Viking history of this area.
Look for
the paper titled “Annagassan, A Study of the Viking Longphort”
by Micheal McKeown, County Louth Archaeological and Historical
Journal, Vol.XXVI,
No.1.
2005
If you're
interested in the return journey of the Sea Stallion,
the Viking Ship that
came to Annagassan for the first Viking Festival in 2007,
and has since returned to Roskilde in Denmark
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follow this link
A special music
CD produced for the 2008 Festival, "Annagassan - Music from a
village", will be featured and made available for sale from this
website shortly.
The Vikings have
left for now, but come and visit Annagassan anytime! Overlooking the Cooley Mountains on Dundalk Bay, Annagassan is close
to the M1 Motorway (Castlebellingham Exit) between Drogheda &
Dundalk. We're less than an hour from both Dublin and Belfast.
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