Affrica Founds Grey Abbey
In 1193, Ireland remained a patchwork of competing lordships rather than a country governed from...
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Peace and Conquest
In 1175 Ireland stood between conquest and compromise. Six years had passed since the first...
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Raids Across Ireland
Ireland in 1035 was a country of energetic regional kingdoms rather than a single state...
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The Fall at Odba
For Ireland, 1072 was a year of abrupt political change. Diarmait mac Máel na mBó,...
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Mac Lochlainn at Fordruim
Ireland in 1153 was dominated by a contest for supremacy between Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, the...
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Power and Hardship
Ireland in 1077 was dominated by the expanding power of Tairdelbach Ua Briain, king of...
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Munster’s Shattered Balance
Ireland’s political order changed sharply during 1151. The year was dominated by a struggle for...
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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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Castlepook’s Cut-Marked Femur
“31,987 BCE” is a modern numerical label, not a date that anyone in prehistoric Ireland...
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Derryvree’s Tundra Waters
Modern calendar-year precision cannot responsibly be projected onto Ireland in 31,812 BCE. The label is...
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