Cashel and Aileach
A Kingdom Without One King Ireland in 1101 was dominated by a contest between two...
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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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Raiders And Rivalries
The surviving Irish annals make 1019 a year of sharp local violence, damaged churches and...
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Derryvree’s Buried Lakebed
The label 31,883 BCE offers a useful point on a modern timeline, but it cannot...
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Carden’s Reindeer Cut Mark
Modern calendar precision cannot be applied responsibly to Ireland in 31,957 BCE. This number is...
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Ireland Under Strain
The surviving chronicles present 1057 as a year of fractured authority, regional warfare and ecclesiastical...
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Doneraile’s Cave Archive
31,850 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s prehistoric record in...
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Tairdelbach’s Shannon Bridges
Ireland’s political landscape was unusually fluid. Diarmait mac Máel na mBó, the ageing king of...
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Juniper Beneath the Drumlins
The label 31,861 BCE gives a misleading impression of precision. No Irish community kept a...
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Cut-Marked Reindeer Bone
The label 31,999 BCE should not be mistaken for a date that people in Ice...
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