{"id":23519,"date":"2025-03-16T21:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T21:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=23519"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:08:37","slug":"history-walk-the-one-road-from-bristol-to-dublin","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/history-walk-the-one-road-from-bristol-to-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"The one road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23598 img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-604x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-604x430.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-768x547.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-1536x1094.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-2048x1459.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-270x192.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Three-Castles-quayside-ad-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A walk though time and space with <strong>Mark Steeds,<\/strong> covering no less than 1,500 years of Bristols historic connections with Dublin and featuring Saints and Sinners, Roundheads and Royalists, Colonists and Criminals, Transportees and Treachery, Merchants and Murders\u2026<\/p>\n<p>From the efforts of Wulfstan in 1090 to ban the trade in Anglo Saxon slaves with the invading Vikings in Dublin, via the Easter Monday massacre of 1209 in Killin Woods, outside of Dublin, when 500 new settlers from Bristol were attacked without warning, to the futures of Irish POWs captured during the English Civil War. 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