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Cross and Kingship

Cross and Kingship

The surviving Irish chronicles make 1123 unusually vivid, but not uniformly clear. They record royal...

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A Kingdom Recast

Conchobar Slain at Bealach

The surviving Irish chronicles make this a year of unusually visible political change, although they...

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Raiders And Rivalries

Raiders And Rivalries

The surviving Irish annals make 1019 a year of sharp local violence, damaged churches and...

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Fermanagh’s Freshwater Silts

Fermanagh’s Freshwater Silts

The numbered year 31,874 BCE cannot be treated as a date in the ordinary historical...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Crag Cave Calcite Growth

Modern calendar precision cannot be carried back reliably to 31,965 BCE. The number is a...

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Before the Ice

Castlepook’s Pleistocene Fauna

“31,990 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date at which an Irish event...

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Maguirebridge’s Tundra Record

Maguirebridge’s Tundra Record

A Date Beyond Calendar Precision The label 31,836 BCE gives a useful position on a...

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Before the Great Ice

Castlepook’s Putative Toolmark

31,936 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for which Ireland’s archaeological record...

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Kings And Pilgrims

Kings And Pilgrims

A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1030 is visible mainly through terse monastic...

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Ice-Age Ireland

Ice-Age Ireland

The label 31,971 BCE creates an impression of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. Nobody...

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