Before Maximum Ice
31,950 BCE is not a year for which Irish history can be written in the...
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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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Power Across the Shannon
An Uneasy High-Kingship Ireland entered 1129 under the formidable but incomplete ascendancy of Toirdelbach Ua...
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Castlepook’s Putative Toolmark
31,936 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for which Ireland’s archaeological record...
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Rival Kingships
In 1201, Ireland’s political map was shaped less by a single conquest than by overlapping...
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Derryvree’s Arctic Lake
The label 31,895 BCE is useful only as a modern point of reference. It cannot...
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Castlepook’s Mammoth Fauna
31,986 BCE cannot be treated as a date in the ordinary historical sense. No written...
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Battle at Dunbo
For Ireland, 1182 was not a year governed from one capital or shaped by one...
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The Doneraile Bone Mark
The label 31,817 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that anybody in...
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Greenagho Ice-Free Deposits
The label 31,946 BCE creates a false impression of precision. No event in Ireland can...
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