Fires and Hostages
The year 1020 in Ireland is unusually vivid in the annalistic record because several notices...
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Doneraile’s Reindeer Ledger
The label 31,835 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that anyone in...
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Synod of Inispatrick
For Ireland, 1148 was a year in which political rivalry and ecclesiastical reform repeatedly crossed...
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Kingship and Reform
The surviving Irish annals make 1106 unusually revealing. They record no single battle or assembly...
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Maguirebridge’s Arctic Silts
“31,864 BCE” is a modern filing point, not a date that can be recovered from...
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Adrian IV’s Laudabiliter
Ireland in 1155 was governed not as a single, centrally administered realm but through a...
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Contest for Connacht
In 1203, Ireland’s political map was neither simply Gaelic nor simply Anglo-Norman. Kings, provincial dynasties,...
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Castlepook’s Deep Winter
The label 31,819 BCE is a useful modern reference point, but it cannot identify an...
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Kings, Clerics and Fire
The record of this year is unusually revealing, but it must be read with care....
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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Rib
“31,828 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...
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