Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations 7
List of Contributors 10
Editor's Preface 11
Archaeological excavations on Mount Gamble Hill: evidence for a new early medieval church in Swords? Edmond O'Donovan 13
Swords and district: the political and ecclesiastical background, fifth to twelfth centuries Ailbhe MacShamhráin 39
Óláfr Cúarán, Sigtryggr Silkbeard and the emergence of the Irish kingdom of Dublin Craig Lyons 64
The church of Bearach, the grange of Baldoyle and the town of the dark stranger Paul Duffy 89
Chivalry, Saracens and the chansons de gesle of Brian Boru Catherine Swift 119
Housing in early Anglo-Norman Dublin: evidence from an excavation at Back Lane Claire Walsh 141
The archbishop and citizens of Dublin during Hugh dc Lacy's Irish rebellion, 1223-4 Daniel J.F. Brown 253
A fourteenth-century historical compilation from St Mary's Cistercian abbey, Dublin Bernard Meehan 264
Dublin and the Scottish threat, 1315-18 Jamks Lydon 277
Urban Elite: the county and civic elite of later medieval Dublin Brian Coleman 293
Everyday violence in medieval Dublin Dianne Hall 305