Bridges and Broken Peace
The year is unusually well illuminated by Irish annals, though their accounts do not always...
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Crown, Church and Cattle
In 1206 Ireland was not a single political unit but a patchwork of Gaelic kingdoms,...
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Brian’s New Order
The record for this year is fuller than many earlier annalistic years, but it is...
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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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Ice-Age Threshold
A Date Without a Year “31,983 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a date...
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Kingship in Upheaval
The record of this year is unusually rich in political deaths, depositions and mutilations. Its...
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The Doneraile Limestone Assemblage
The label 31,825 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that can be...
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A Divided Lordship
Ireland in 1205 was not a single political unit, nor was it simply a country...
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Doneraile’s Mammoth Cave
The numbered year 31,914 BCE cannot be treated as a date at which a recorded...
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Alliances and Fractures
Ireland entered 1180 divided among overlapping claims rather than neatly separated realms. Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair...
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