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The Awbeg Faunal Window

The Awbeg Faunal Window

31,878 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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Elephant Hall Bone Sands

Elephant Hall Bone Sands

The label 31,912 BCE conveys a precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No community in...

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Derryvree’s Arctic Sediments

Derryvree’s Arctic Sediments

31,834 BCE cannot be treated as a year in the ordinary historical sense. No written...

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A Fragile Peace

A Fragile Peace

The Ireland of 1016 was still living in the shadow of the Battle of Clontarf....

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Before the Ice Advance

Castlepook Hyena Den

“31,982 BCE” cannot be treated as a datable year in the ordinary historical sense. There...

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Raids and Rival Kings

Athlone Bridge Collapse

In 1146 Ireland was dominated not by a single settled monarchy but by an overlapping...

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Kings, Relics and Visitors

Kings, Relics and Visitors

The surviving records make 1079 unusually revealing for an eleventh-century Irish year. They describe campaigning...

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Derryvree’s Tundra Pools

Derryvree’s Tundra Pools

The label 31,908 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date at which an...

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Before the Great Ice

Ulster Pollen And Beetles

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for prehistoric Ireland at 31,938 BCE. The label is...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Derryvree Ice-Free Interval

“31,976 BCE” is a useful point on a modern chronological scale, but it is not...

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