Dryas at Derryvree
The label 31,872 BCE is useful for placing this entry in a long chronological sequence,...
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Power and Hardship
Ireland in 1077 was dominated by the expanding power of Tairdelbach Ua Briain, king of...
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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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Battle of Sliabh gCrot
The surviving Irish annals make 1058 unusually visible for an eleventh-century year. They record a...
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Cathal Carrach Restored
In 1200, Ireland was not a single political unit governed from one capital. The island...
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Cork Reindeer Butchery
“31,995 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...
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Hostings And Harvests
The surviving record for 1012 is terse but revealing. It was not the year of...
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Derryvree’s Freshwater Window
The label 31,843 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone then...
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Brian At Armagh
A Year On Campaign The year 1005 is one of the clearest moments in the...
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Niall’s Capture in Uí Maine
The surviving annals present 1163 as a year of strained authority rather than decisive conquest....
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