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A Kingdom Recast

Gofraid Expelled from Dublin

The year was a turning point in the recovery of Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Exposed Celtic Sea Shelf

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,960 BCE. The label is a...

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At The Ice Margin

Castlepook Reindeer Incision

The label 31,974 BCE is a modern way of placing a very remote point in...

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Five Million and Stormont

Five Million and Stormont

In 2022 Ireland moved from the extraordinary disciplines of the pandemic into a year of...

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Feuds and Sanctuaries

Feuds and Sanctuaries

The annalists who recorded 1041 opened with an unusually candid warning. Ireland’s events, they wrote,...

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Greenagho’s Mosses

Greenagho’s Mosses

31,909 BCE is a modern chronological label, not a year that anyone then living in...

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Crown Comes Ashore

Crown Comes Ashore

In 1171 Ireland’s political order entered a new and uncertain phase. The year began with...

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Castlepook’s Scored Femur

Castlepook’s Scored Femur

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,837 BCE. The label is a...

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Truce and Tempest

Truce and Tempest

The surviving record for 1190 is uneven, but it catches Ireland at a revealing moment:...

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Reindeer Bone at Mammoth Cave

Reindeer Bone at Mammoth Cave

The label 31,871 BCE gives a useful point of entry, but it cannot describe a...

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