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Maguirebridge Mossland

Maguirebridge Mossland

The label 31,820 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...

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Power Shifts West

Power Shifts West

Ireland entered 1121 with no single monarch exercising permanent government over the whole island. Power...

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Before the Deep Freeze

Glacial Erosion Legacy

The label “31,945 BCE” should not be mistaken for a date at which an Irish...

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A Year of Truces

A Year of Truces

For Ireland, 1102 was a year of negotiated pauses rather than settled peace. Two formidable...

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Brian At Armagh

Brian At Armagh

A Year On Campaign The year 1005 is one of the clearest moments in the...

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Fleets, Fire and Reform

Tairdelbach’s Divided Ireland

The surviving record of 1135 is unusually rich in short, vivid notices: fleets on the...

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Dublin Changes Hands

Dublin Changes Hands

A Year Seen Through Fragments The surviving record for this year is brief but unusually...

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Castlepook’s Faunal Boundary

Castlepook’s Faunal Boundary

The label 31,866 BCE gives a misleading impression of precision. No Irish event can be...

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Castlepook’s Reindeer Horizon

Castlepook’s Reindeer Horizon

“31,923 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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Greenagho’s Tundra Basin

Greenagho’s Tundra Basin

The label 31,881 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond written...

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