Forget the myths - here's what life in ancient Ireland was really like. Tim McGarry and David Hume go back to the year 1169 and the start of the Norman conquest of Ireland. Did the Normans actually invade or were they invited in? Was the Norman occupation really an English invasion? Tim and David begin the story of the #NormanConquest of Ireland at Baginbun beach in County Wexford. The phrase 'by the creek of Baginbun, Ireland was lost and won' refers to where the Anglo-Normans landed in Ireland