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Castlepook’s Faunal Boundary

Castlepook’s Faunal Boundary

The label 31,866 BCE gives a misleading impression of precision. No Irish event can be...

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The Contest for Tara

Hostages And Kings

A Millennium in the Annals Ireland entered 1000 in the aftermath of a major military...

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Truce and Uprooting

Truce and Uprooting

The surviving record of this year is unusually vivid but uneven. Irish annalists firmly place...

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Before the Ice

Periglacial Shrub Tundra

A Date Beyond Annals 31,937 BCE cannot be treated as a year in the ordinary...

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Before the Deep Freeze

Herb-Rich Tundra

31,962 BCE is a modern label, not a date at which an event can be...

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Castles and Contested Kingship

Castles and Contested Kingship

Ireland in 1184 was governed not by a single uncontested authority but through overlapping claims,...

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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Rib

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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War Across the Shannon

War Across the Shannon

The surviving annals make 1132 one of the more vividly recorded years of Ireland’s early...

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Cashel and Aileach

Cashel and Aileach

A Kingdom Without One King Ireland in 1101 was dominated by a contest between two...

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Wind And Bargains

Wind And Bargains

Ireland in 1222 was neither a single kingdom nor a country governed in one uniform...

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