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Doneraile’s Marked Hindleg

Doneraile’s Marked Hindleg

The label 31,811 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...

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Armies and Intercession

Armies and Intercession

The surviving Irish annals present 1109 as a year of campaigning, hostage-taking, ecclesiastical intervention and...

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Before the Deep Freeze

Courtmacsherry Coastal Deposits

“31,940 BCE” is a modern label, not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s...

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After Clontarf

Sitriuc Blinds Braen

Four years after the battle of Clontarf, Ireland in 1018 was not a country at...

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Ireland Under Strain

Ireland Under Strain

The surviving chronicles present 1057 as a year of fractured authority, regional warfare and ecclesiastical...

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Before the Ice

Cave Bone Taphonomy

The label “31,926 BCE” is useful for organising a modern chronology, but it must not...

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A Kingdom Contested

Ruaidrí’s Meath Intervention

Ireland entered 1160 in the aftermath of a major struggle for supremacy. Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn,...

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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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Rossport and the Last Arsenal

Rossport and the Last Arsenal

For Ireland, 2005 was a year in which apparently separate arguments exposed the pressures of...

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Hostings and Hired Swords

Hostings and Hired Swords

Ireland in 1080 was not a unified kingdom governed from a permanent capital. It was...

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