Fire and Reform
The surviving record of this year is unusually revealing about Ireland’s religious institutions, even though...
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Contested Kingdoms
The surviving Irish annals present 1087 as a year of battles, political killings and environmental...
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Kingship in Flux
The surviving Irish annals make 1046 unusually visible, but only in sharp fragments. They record...
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Fire and Fragmented Power
Ireland in 1108 was not a single kingdom governed from one centre. It was a...
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War Before Clontarf
Reading A Troubled Year The year 1013 in Ireland is best understood as a year...
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Connacht Ascendant
The surviving Irish annals make 1122 unusually visible, but they do not provide a continuous...
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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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Kings And Pilgrims
A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1030 is visible mainly through terse monastic...
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Shifting Lordships
In 1219, Ireland did not experience a single island-wide turning point. Instead, the year exposed...
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War Across the Shannon
The surviving annals make 1132 one of the more vividly recorded years of Ireland’s early...
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