Munster Divided
In 1118 the balance of power in Ireland shifted sharply towards Connacht. The decisive developments...
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Kings, Clergy and Cattle
In 1150 Ireland had no single government, capital or uncontested monarch. Instead, provincial rulers and...
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War on Two Fronts
Ireland’s annalists remembered this as “a year of much warfare”. That description, preserved in the...
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Derryvree’s Freshwater Window
The label 31,843 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone then...
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Rival Kings and Raids
Ireland in 1055 had no uncontested high-king. Power rested with provincial rulers, lesser kings, dynastic...
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Castlepook’s Reindeer Passage
The label 31,898 BCE cannot identify a documented Irish event, a ruler, or even a...
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Cork Caves, Fermanagh Silts
31,867 BCE is not a year that can be isolated in Ireland’s archaeological record. It...
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Mammoth Cave, Derryvree Silts
The label 31,862 BCE is useful only as a modern point of reference. No community...
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Domnall Ua Lochlainn’s Accession
The surviving Irish annals present 1083 chiefly as a year of political change in the...
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Raids and Reckonings
The surviving record of 1056 is unusually revealing, though far from complete. Irish annals identify...
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