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Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.

My name is Finn Duwire and this is the Norman Invasion Part 7, the Second Siege of Dublin.

This episode takes us back to what was one of the greatest sieges in Irish history,

when the Normans, led by Strongbow, were trapped in Dublin by a massive Gaelic army

through the summer of 1171.

The fallout from this siege was immense, Ireland's future hung in the balance.

Also at the end of this episode there's a really exciting announcement.

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Now let's turn back the clock to 1171.

Strongbo's first winter in Ireland can't have been an easy one for him or his followers. After their successful conquest of Dublin and raids into Meath in late 1170, they had set up winter

quarters in the port of Waterford on the south coast, the first town they had conquered after landing in Ireland.

Despite their successes, there was no escaping the fact they were far from home, having left

their kith and kin back in South Wales to come to what

was a strange land for many of them. Indeed, for decades to come, parts of Ireland would still

remain a mysterious, exotic and dangerous world for them.

When Gerald of Wales, the Norman Chronicle, brought a detailed account of Ireland, he repeated

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