As thoughts in some households turn to the summer festival season I write about how the people of medieval Ireland were having a great time together in big fields over a thousand years ago and more.
Before Electric Picnic, There Was the Óenach
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Irish people were gathering in fields to have a good time long before anyone pitched a tent at Stradbally. The older version also came with its own law court and burial ground.
