The Struggle at Ardee
Ireland’s annalists remembered 1159 above all as a year of armies, alliances and contested crossings....
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Hyaena Land at Castlepook
The label 31,810 BCE cannot identify an event in the modern sense. No calendar, written...
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Hyaena Land, Castlepook
The label 31,920 BCE must not be treated as the date of a recorded Irish...
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Maguirebridge’s Arctic Silts
“31,864 BCE” is a modern filing point, not a date that can be recovered from...
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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Rib
“31,828 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...
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Derryvree Between Two Tills
“31,856 BCE” is a modern numerical label, not a date that can be recovered from...
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Kings, Clergy and Cattle
In 1150 Ireland had no single government, capital or uncontested monarch. Instead, provincial rulers and...
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Law, Fire and Rivalry
The record of Irish affairs in 1040 is unusually revealing, although still fragmentary. Several annalistic...
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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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Fire and Foray
For Ireland, 1112 was not a year of a single decisive battle or royal succession....
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