Synod of Ráith Bressail
Ireland in 1111 was neither a unified kingdom nor an isolated collection of local communities....
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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 Frostbound Pool
31,844 BCE is not a date at which Ireland can be assigned an event, a...
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Hostages and Burning
The surviving annals portray 1149 as a year of hard campaigning, hostage-taking and destructive raiding....
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Castlepook’s Reindeer Country
Modern calendar notation gives the appearance of exactness that the evidence cannot sustain. No event...
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Máel Sechnaill’s Leinster Hostages
The year 1015 in Ireland was the first full year after the catastrophe and opportunity...
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Synod and Supremacy
In 1158 Ireland had no uncontested monarch ruling through a central administration. Power rested instead...
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Crag Cave Interstadial
The label 31,949 BCE offers a useful point on a modern chronological scale, but it...
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Fire and Frontier
The surviving chronicles make 1187 memorable for sudden destruction, contested frontiers and the continuing fragmentation...
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Castlepook’s Mammoth Assemblage
No event can responsibly be assigned to 31,911 BCE in Ireland. This is a modern...
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