Wind And Bargains
Ireland in 1222 was neither a single kingdom nor a country governed in one uniform...
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Before Maximum Ice
31,950 BCE is not a year for which Irish history can be written in the...
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Fractured Power
In 1196, Ireland was not a single political unit but a crowded field of regional...
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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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Bogbean Beneath the Tills
“31,902 BCE” gives an impression of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No event in...
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Derryvree’s Tundra Silt
31,831 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from the Irish archaeological record...
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Frontiers Under Pressure
Ireland in 1178 was neither conquered nor divided into two simple, united camps. The lordship...
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Castlepook Cave Deposits
The label 31,970 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair Dies
For Ireland’s ruling dynasties, 1156 was a year of succession, coercion and rapidly changing alliances....
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Foundation of Bective Abbey
The surviving record of 1147 is uneven, but it captures an Ireland in which military...
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