War Across the Shannon
The surviving annals make 1132 one of the more vividly recorded years of Ireland’s early...
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Carman And Contest
A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1033 is visible chiefly through terse notices...
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Law, Fire and Rivalry
The record of Irish affairs in 1040 is unusually revealing, although still fragmentary. Several annalistic...
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Fractured Lordships
The surviving Irish record for 1032 is not a continuous narrative but a set of...
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The Castlepook Question
The label “31,907 BCE” gives a useful position in a modern chronological sequence, but it...
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Kings, Pilgrims and Relics
Ireland in 1034 was a land of competing over-kings, ambitious regional dynasties, wealthy churches and...
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Power and Frontiers
Ireland in 1181 was neither a single kingdom nor a land neatly divided between conquerors...
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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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Ice Before History
A Date Beyond Calendar History 31,975 BCE is a modern way of labelling a point...
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Celtic Shelf Horizons
“31,869 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date that can be identified in...
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