Kingship in Upheaval
The record of this year is unusually rich in political deaths, depositions and mutilations. Its...
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The Castlepook Reindeer Question
The date conventionally written as 31,876 BCE creates an impression of precision that the evidence...
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The Great Snow
The surviving Irish chronicles remember this year above all for exceptional cold, political violence and...
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Derryvree’s Tundra Archive
31,989 BCE is not a date at which Ireland can be described year by year...
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Southern Ice-Free Ground
“31,951 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year in which an event in...
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A Kingship Unravels
A Sudden Political Crisis Ireland entered 1114 without a single, uncontested high king. Muirchertach Ua...
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Frontiers of Kingship
Ireland entered 1100 without a single monarch capable of ruling the whole island as a...
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Kings, Relics and Visitors
The surviving records make 1079 unusually revealing for an eleventh-century Irish year. They describe campaigning...
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Maguirebridge Between the Tills
The label 31,892 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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Affrica Founds Grey Abbey
In 1193, Ireland remained a patchwork of competing lordships rather than a country governed from...
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