29/6/09

Feast of Summer Page updated

Event pages created for Hunter's Feast and Winter's Feast

News updated

Eplaheimr is a SCA shire covering the Midlands (Offaly, Laois & North Tipperary) part of Lough Devnaree (Ireland) in the Crown Principality of Insulae Draconis. We are mostly centred around Shinrone, Co. Offaly and its surrounding areas but open to everyone in our catchment areas.

Our Shire includes a college branch

The College of King's Lake.
This covers the Athlone Institute of Technology, Co. Westmeath. For details on King's Lake, click here

Eplaheimr is a part of the Society for Creative Anachronism(SCA), an international historical selective recreation group covering history up to 1600 A.D.. For more detailed description of the Society and what we do, please have a look at this page taken the the SCA.org website.

For information on SCA groups in Ireland, the U.K and further afield, please look at this page

For a detailed description of our regular events, take a look at this page

If you are interested in getting involved with SCA activities, follow this link for information on life in the Society, creating a persona, how to behave, etc.

NEWS

HERALDIC FEAST
The weekend of the 13-15 June saw the Heraldic Feast event held in Eplaheimr. We were graced by the presence of Their Excellencies, the Viceroy and Vicereine of Insulae Draconis and held our largest event to date, with 47 people.
Many varied activities took place throughout the event, including two Prize playings for entry to the Drachenwald Academy of Defence and several authorisations.
Links to photo galleries of the event will be upcoming

REGULAR PRACTICES CHANGES
As of the last Shire meeting, our Fencing and Heavy Practice times have changed. Both activities will now run at the same times

Tuesdays 18.00 -20.00
Sundays - 14.00 - 17.00

RAGLAN EXPEDITION

At the Feast of Flowers event it was announced that the Shire will mount an expedition to the great Fair Raglan at Raglan Castle in Wales in August. This is a magnificent event run by the fair Shire of Mynydd Gywn. If you are interested in this event, please contact the Seneschal

For older news, click here

UPCOMING EVENTS

A SUMMER'S FEAST
Eplaheimr holds it's celebration of the joys of summer from the 3-5th July. For details, click here

CHAMPIONS OF LOUGH DEVNAREE
Oyez, Oyez, the Shire of Eplaheimr invites one and all to Champions of Lough Devnaree, in Clara, Co. Offaly. This event will decide the archery, heavy, fencing, and A&S Champions for the coming year. Click here for details

FOR A FULL LIST OF OUR EVENTS PLEASE CLICK THE CALENDAR LINK ON THE TOP LEFT.

If your are interested in the SCA and are in our catchment area click on the Officers link at the side of the screen for details on how to get in contact with someone from Eplaheimr. For information on our activities, click here

For a list of all up and coming events with our shire click here.
If you want information about buying an SCA membership, then please follow this link!!