Wind And Bargains
Ireland in 1222 was neither a single kingdom nor a country governed in one uniform...
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Ice Age Threshold
Modern calendar-year precision cannot be recovered for 31,997 BCE. The label is a retrospective point...
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Hostages and Burning
The surviving annals portray 1149 as a year of hard campaigning, hostage-taking and destructive raiding....
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Castlepook and Derryvree
The label 31,901 BCE cannot identify a particular Irish event, season, leader or community. At...
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A Year of Unsettled Succession
For Ireland, 1198 is a year best understood through a small number of carefully recorded...
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A Year of Upheaval
The surviving record of 1061 presents Ireland as a landscape of competing dynasties, vulnerable settlements...
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Maguirebridge Mossland
The label 31,820 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...
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Connacht Under Pressure
The surviving Irish annals present 1062 as a year of fractured authority rather than island-wide...
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Máel Sechnaill’s Tailtiu Revival
The Ireland of 1007 is unusually visible because several annalistic traditions record a cluster of...
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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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