Hostages And Pilgrims
The surviving record for 1026 is unusually revealing because several Irish annals, though brief, agree...
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A King on Campaign
The surviving annals portray 1126 as a year of exceptional royal movement, regional warfare and...
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Hyaena Hall’s Open Country
The label 31,903 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that can be...
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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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Awbeg Valley Reindeer
The label “31,877 BCE” is a modern way of placing a very remote point in...
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Gofraid Expelled from Dublin
The year was a turning point in the recovery of Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of...
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Castlepook’s MIS 3 Fauna
The label 31,910 BCE has a deceptive exactness. No people in Ireland then used a...
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Power Shifts West
Ireland entered 1121 with no single monarch exercising permanent government over the whole island. Power...
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Castlepook’s Hyena Galleries
The label 31,922 BCE gives a misleading impression of precision. No community in Ireland used...
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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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