Ice Age Threshold
Modern calendar-year precision cannot be recovered for 31,997 BCE. The label is a retrospective point...
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Hostages of the North
The surviving Irish annals make 1010 appear, at first glance, a year of deaths and...
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Fractured Peace
In 1017 Ireland was living in the unsettled aftermath of Clontarf. Brian Bórama had been...
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Awbeg Limestone Fauna
“31,865 BCE” is a useful modern filing label, not a date at which Ireland can...
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Celtic Shelf Horizons
“31,869 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date that can be identified in...
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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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Peace and Conquest
In 1175 Ireland stood between conquest and compromise. Six years had passed since the first...
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Raiders on the Shannon
The surviving chronicles make 1065 appear as a year of swift raids, disputed kingships and...
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Bogbean Beneath the Tills
“31,902 BCE” gives an impression of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No event in...
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Castlepook’s Reindeer Horizon
“31,923 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...
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