Shandon Cave Fauna
“31,980 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date that prehistoric people in Ireland...
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Doneraile’s Reindeer Cutmark
A date labelled 31,913 BCE offers a useful point from which to examine a very...
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Hugh de Lacy’s Death
Ireland in 1186 was neither conquered nor politically united. Seventeen years after the first Anglo-Norman...
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Ireland Before Settlement
“31,993 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be matched to...
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Council and Calamity
In 1179 Ireland remained divided between established Gaelic kingdoms, Hiberno-Norse towns and expanding English lordships....
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Elephant Hall’s Tundra Fauna
Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,855 BCE. This numbered year is...
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A Year of Ascendancy
The surviving Irish annals give 1068 an unusually coherent character. They record the elimination of...
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Ransoms And Rivalries
The Ireland of 1029 was not ruled from a single centre. The annals instead show...
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Castlepook Cave Mammals
The label 31,942 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair Dies
For Ireland’s ruling dynasties, 1156 was a year of succession, coercion and rapidly changing alliances....
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