It’s a way of helping people get in touch with the Ireland of old. We’re visiting Dublinia, which is an interactive Viking and Medieval experience, as it launches the second phase of its Dublin Walls app, which enables people to look around the old city as it was centuries ago. Today, there’s also the need for developers and archaeologists to work together to uncover Ireland’s heritage. ”There’s a much better relationship now between developers and archaeologists who work together and help each other out,” says Dooley. They also show that the research into Irish history is never finished: there’s always something more to discover. It’s unexpected discoveries like this – it was the last day of the excavation at the site – that can change the course of decades of research. Their discovery suggested that Viking burials were perhaps taking place earlier than it was commonly believed there was a Viking presence in Ireland (the first raids are thought to have taken place in AD 795, while a Viking base, or longphort, in Dublin dates to AD 841). They were Vikings, buried between 670 – 882 AD in three cases and 789 – 955 in the fourth, according to radiocarbon dating. In 2003, Dunnes Stores was expanding its headquarters on Dublin’s South Great George’s St, when something significant was discovered during excavations: the bodies of four men, aged between their late teens and late twenties. “HIS DISCOVERY HAS shifted our understanding of the Vikings and their relationship with Dublin.” Sheila Dooley, curator at Dublinia, is showing TheJournal.ie a skeleton as she says this – the skeleton of a Norwegian man (nicknamed Gunnar) who travelled to Ireland hundreds of years ago.
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