Hostages And Kings
A Millennium in the Annals Ireland entered 1000 in the aftermath of a major military...
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Victory at Thurles
In 1174 the Anglo-Norman foothold in Ireland came close to a serious military crisis. Only...
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Kingship in Upheaval
The record of this year is unusually rich in political deaths, depositions and mutilations. Its...
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Doneraile’s Reindeer Landscape
The label 31,847 BCE creates a useful point of orientation, but it must not be...
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Reindeer Butchery at Castlepook
The label 31,981 BCE is useful for filing an Irish past that has no written...
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Cork Animal Processing
The label 31,958 BCE must not be mistaken for a year that anyone in Ireland...
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Domnall Ua Lochlainn’s Accession
The surviving Irish annals present 1083 chiefly as a year of political change in the...
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Raids and Pilgrims
The surviving Irish annals make 1031 a year of hard edges: pilgrim kings returning from...
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Power and Hardship
Ireland in 1077 was dominated by the expanding power of Tairdelbach Ua Briain, king of...
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Cormac’s Return from Lismore
Irish politics in 1127 revolved around the formidable Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht and...
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