Synod of Inispatrick
For Ireland, 1148 was a year in which political rivalry and ecclesiastical reform repeatedly crossed...
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Approaching Last Glacial Maximum
31,935 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be recovered from...
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Mac Lochlainn at Fordruim
Ireland in 1153 was dominated by a contest for supremacy between Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, the...
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Kings And Pilgrims
A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1030 is visible mainly through terse monastic...
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Shifting Lordships
In 1219, Ireland did not experience a single island-wide turning point. Instead, the year exposed...
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The Fall at Odba
For Ireland, 1072 was a year of abrupt political change. Diarmait mac Máel na mBó,...
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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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Castlepook’s Reindeer Country
Modern calendar notation gives the appearance of exactness that the evidence cannot sustain. No event...
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Castlepook’s Wandering Herds
31,888 BCE is not a year to which an Irish event can responsibly be assigned....
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Winter of Rival Kings
In 1115 Ireland was shaken by an exceptional winter, a renewed struggle for Munster and...
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