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Power Across Provinces

Power Across Provinces

A Year Seen Through Annals The surviving Irish annals give 1110 an unusually clear, if...

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Derryvree Between Two Tills

Derryvree Between Two Tills

“31,856 BCE” is a modern numerical label, not a date that can be recovered from...

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Raids and Rival Kings

Murchad’s Defeat at Durrow

The surviving Irish chronicles present 1059 as a year of raids, dynastic killings and political...

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Doneraile’s Faunal Corridor

Doneraile’s Faunal Corridor

A Date Beyond Annals “31,897 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that...

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Kings, Croziers and Raids

Kings, Croziers and Raids

The surviving record of 1136 presents Ireland as a landscape of competing kingships, armed households,...

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A Shattered Kingship

A Shattered Kingship

The Ireland visible in the annals for 1024 was not a quiet island recovering neatly...

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Reindeer at Doneraile

Reindeer at Doneraile

The label 31,918 BCE supplies a useful point on a modern chronological scale, but it...

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Connacht Ascendant

Connacht Ascendant

The surviving Irish annals make 1122 unusually visible, but they do not provide a continuous...

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Before the Ice

Castlepook Reindeer Evidence

“31,988 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year that anyone living in prehistoric...

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The Awbeg Reindeer Incision

The Awbeg Reindeer Incision

The label 31,816 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...

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