Free street pageant in Waterford (one day late !) where the Cambro/Norman Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke married Aoife Ní Diarmait to create the first foothold of the Normans in Ireland and 800 years of subsequent 'tourism'.
The attack on Waterford (Ireland's first city) will be re-enacted with much blood & gore. The street battle-scene will show the fight between the Hibrno/Vikings and Richard de Gros and the marriage of Diarmuid MacMurragh's daughter in an attempt to regain MacMurragh's Leinster kingship. This in fact meant the Normans then had a 'legitimate' entry into Irish royalty and the land.
It is the singular most important pageant in Irish history/culture until the raising of the tricolour above Dublin Castle in December of 1922.
The whole piece will be read by the infamous chronicler of the time; Sylvester Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerallt Gymro in Welsh, archdeacon of Brecon) who re-wrote the history of Ireland as seen by the Normans. The public are invited to challange him on his version of the Irish.
The area will be ‘dressed’ as a medieval street-market and later at a medieval banquet in Revolution Bar everyone may meet the cast and examine the clothes, weapons and amour. And argue some more with Giraldus.
