EMERALD GAZETTE
Explore Irish history century by century with the EMERALD GAZETTE, a growing series of illustrated flipbook volumes created from the collections of the Emerald Archives. Spanning 32,000 BCE to 1999 CE, the complete series will comprise 340 issues, with each volume covering one century in chronological order. New issues will be published frequently as the archive builds, with the final issue published in June 2027, gradually creating a continuous journey through more than 34,000 years of Ireland’s past. Each volume brings together the archive’s historical articles and imagery in an engaging book-style format designed for easy reading and exploration.
Ice Age
Explore Ireland during the Ice Age through one hundred chronological archive chapters spanning 32000–31901 BCE. This opening volume of Emerald Gazette brings together archaeological evidence, changing landscapes, climate, wildlife and the cautious interpretation of Ireland’s earliest human possibilities in a single illustrated historical collection.
Frozen Wilds
Frozen Wilds explores Ireland from 31900–31801 BCE through one hundred annual studies of late Ice Age environments, sediments, changing landscapes and fragmentary evidence. Moving from Maguirebridge’s moss-rich silt to Fermanagh’s moss-and-sedge archive, the issue reconstructs a century through palaeoenvironmental clues while carefully distinguishing evidence, interpretation and continuing archaeological uncertainty.
Glacial Silence
Glacial Silence explores Ireland across 31800–31701 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Trifoliate Seed Beneath a Drumlin” and concluding with “Doneraile’s Ice-Age Hinterland”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Tundra Horizons
Tundra Horizons explores Ireland across 31700–31601 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Derryvree’s Freshwater Beds” and concluding with “Castlepook’s Unresolved Reindeer”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Frozen Valleys
Frozen Valleys explores Ireland across 31600–31501 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Derryvree’s Mountain Avens” and concluding with “An Incision at Castlepook”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Icebound Shores
Icebound Shores explores Ireland across 31500–31401 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Derryvree’s Drumlin Pool” and concluding with “Castlepook’s Unquiet Hinterland”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Arctic Skies
Arctic Skies explores Ireland across 31400–31301 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Mammoth Cave’s Long Shadow” and concluding with “BIRM-166’s Broad Horizon”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Glacial Winds
Glacial Winds explores Ireland across 31300–31201 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Derryvree’s Silt Flora” and concluding with “Castlepook’s Open-Country Fauna”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Frozen Earth
Frozen Earth explores Ireland across 31200–31101 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Derryvree Beneath the Drumlin” and concluding with “The Castlepook Threshold”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Tundra Plains
Tundra Plains explores Ireland across 31100–31001 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Maguirebridge’s Buried Sedgebed” and concluding with “Derryvree’s Intertill Garden”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Icy Wilderness
Icy Wilderness explores Ireland across 31000–30901 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Castlepook’s Uncertain Cut” and concluding with “Hyenahall’s Faunal Frontier”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Glacial Depths
Glacial Depths explores Ireland across 30900–30801 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Muskeg Beneath Two Tills” and concluding with “BIRM-166’s Bogbean Waters”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Frozen Ridges
Frozen Ridges explores Ireland across 30800–30701 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Doneraile’s Cutmarked Reindeer” and concluding with “Castlepook’s Uncertain Reindeer”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Cold Horizons
Cold Horizons explores Ireland across 30700–30601 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Derryvree’s Subdrumlin Wetland” and concluding with “Derryvree’s Sub-Till Sedges”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Icebound Valleys
Icebound Valleys explores Ireland across 30600–30501 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “Derryvree’s Pre-Glacial Wetlands” and concluding with “Derryvree’s Sub-Till Tundra”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
Tundra Shadows
Tundra Shadows explores Ireland across 30500–30401 BCE through 100 chronological annual chapters from Emerald Archives. Beginning with “BIRM-166’s Living Silt” and concluding with “Doneraile’s Incised Femur”, the volume follows the century’s surviving evidence, tracing change, continuity and uncertainty while placing individual discoveries within their wider environmental, social, cultural, political and material historical context.
