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Hyaena Hall’s Open Country

Hyaena Hall’s Open Country

The label 31,903 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that can be...

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Shandon’s Red-Deer World

Shandon’s Red-Deer World

The label 31,882 BCE should not be treated as a year in which Irish archaeology...

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Before The Deep Freeze

British-Irish Ice Sheet Expansion

“31,955 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be matched to...

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Hostages at Athlone

Hostages at Athlone

The year 1002 stands out in Irish history because a political order long dominated by...

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Power and Hardship

Power and Hardship

Ireland in 1077 was dominated by the expanding power of Tairdelbach Ua Briain, king of...

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Maguirebridge’s Moss-Rich Silt

Maguirebridge’s Moss-Rich Silt

A Date Without a Diary “31,900 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a year...

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Castles and Cattle

Castles and Cattle

For Ireland, 1214 is best approached not as a single national story but as a...

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Ice Before History

Ice Before History

A Date Beyond Calendar History 31,975 BCE is a modern way of labelling a point...

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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Bone

Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Bone

The label 31,905 BCE offers a misleading degree of precision. No Irish written record, annually...

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Maguirebridge’s Tundra Mosses

Maguirebridge’s Tundra Mosses

The label 31,823 BCE gives a modern calendar address to a period that had no...

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