Castlepook’s Cold-Stage Fauna
“31,996 BCE” is a modern retrospective label, not a date anyone living then could have...
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Exposed Celtic Sea Shelf
Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,960 BCE. The label is a...
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Royal Power Tested
In 1210 Ireland was the scene of King John’s most forceful personal intervention in the...
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The Blinding of Ruaidrí
The surviving annals present 1092 as a year in which a single act of dynastic...
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Kings, Croziers and Raids
The surviving record of 1136 presents Ireland as a landscape of competing kingships, armed households,...
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Castlepook’s Reindeer Bone
Modern calendar precision cannot responsibly turn 31,956 BCE into an Irish annal. No community in...
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Hostages And Kings
A Millennium in the Annals Ireland entered 1000 in the aftermath of a major military...
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Frontiers and Fractures
In 1209, Ireland was not a single political unit moving to one national rhythm. The...
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Winter of Rival Kings
In 1115 Ireland was shaken by an exceptional winter, a renewed struggle for Munster and...
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Kings, Relics and Winter
Ireland in 1093 was dominated by a contest for power rather than by any universally...
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