Wood Quay

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Um, uh, there were similar finds of Viking, uh, remains in, in here in Dublin, in Wood Quay, which people might remember was hugely controversial because they just built a building over it, really-

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... without properly excavating it.

Almost 50 years ago, this place reemerged into daylight for the first time in centuries.

In the 1970s, at Wood Quay on the Liffey's South Bank, builders began work on new offices for Dublin Corporation.

What no one realized was that just a few feet beneath the surface, an ancient town lay buried.

Digging soon revealed the remains of the original Viking settlement.

Before they arrived, Irish architecture had one overwhelming feature, roundness.

But the Vikings introduced a whole new way of building.

Adjoining Wood Quay and along the edge of Fishamble Street, Pat uncovered the remains of their houses.

One of the major physical legacies of the Vikings in Dublin is the establishment of the rectangular form of building as the ordinary domestic house.

But between South Great Georgia Street and Camden Street, that row, there's a Lidl shop up there and they found... that would have been the site of a very, very, very old theatre back in...

Wood Quay would be an extension of Wood Quay.

But this is all incorporated.

They have a glass floor where you can...

She's the lead singer with the up and coming five piece band Avenue 68.

They'll be taken to the stage at the amphitheatre at Wood Quay in Dublin City Centre at half four.

So here they talk a little bit more about the significance of Culture Night for them.

I guess for us, it's a nice excuse to, I guess, share our music to an audience that we wouldn't usually be in front of.