Ruth Carden’s Cut Mark
A Calendar Label, Not an Event “31,934 BCE” is a modern way of naming a...
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Tairdelbach’s Waterford Fleet
Ireland in 1137 was a land of ambitious overkings, shifting alliances and increasingly organised churches,...
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The Doneraile Femur
The label 31,893 BCE creates an appearance of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No...
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Foundation of Bective Abbey
The surviving record of 1147 is uneven, but it captures an Ireland in which military...
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Raids and Pilgrims
The surviving Irish annals make 1031 a year of hard edges: pilgrim kings returning from...
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Castlepook Cave Mammals
The label 31,942 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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Fractured Peace
In 1017 Ireland was living in the unsettled aftermath of Clontarf. Brian Bórama had been...
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Reindeer by the Awbeg
The label 31,863 BCE is a modern way of locating a point deep in the...
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Reindeer Bone at Mammoth Cave
The label 31,871 BCE gives a useful point of entry, but it cannot describe a...
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Connacht in Crisis
The surviving record of 1082 is brief, uneven and dominated by violent deaths. Its clearest...
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