MILLENIUM ARCHIVE
IRELAND 1000CE TO 2000CE
Ireland Year by Year presents a continuous chronological journey through one thousand years of Irish history, from 1000 CE to 2000 CE. Each article explores a single year, placing its most important events, people and developments within their wider historical setting. Together, the collection follows Ireland’s changing political life, society, religion, culture, economy and relationships with the wider world. Articles are carefully researched, clearly written and supported by extensive sources for readers wishing to investigate further. New years appear in chronological order as the collection grows, gradually creating an accessible record of Ireland’s remarkable and complex historical experience for everyone.
1110–1119 CE
1110 CE
Power Across Provinces
The surviving Irish annals give 1110 an unusually clear, if selective, outline. They record an invasion of Connacht, two battles within that province, local killings and plundering, the deaths of political and ecclesiastical figures, and a significant visitation of Mide by Cellach, successor of Patrick at Armagh. These notices were written principally to preserve the affairs of kings, dynasties and churches. They tell us much less directly about ordinary households, agricultural work or peaceful exchange. Any account of the year must therefore separate firmly recorded events from the broader conditions within which they occurred.
