Maguirebridge Between the Tills
The label 31,892 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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The Shannon Barrier
A Year On The Defensive The Irish annals make 1001 look, at first glance, like...
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Castlepook’s Marked Reindeer Femur
A Date Beyond the Annals 31,973 BCE is not a year that can be recovered...
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A Fragile Overkingship
The surviving Irish annals make 1021 appear, at first glance, a year of short notices:...
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Castlepook Reindeer Butchery
The label 31,992 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that people living...
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Frontier, Faith and Succession
Ireland in 1220 was not governed as a single political unit. The English crown claimed...
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Fire and Frontier
The surviving chronicles make 1187 memorable for sudden destruction, contested frontiers and the continuing fragmentation...
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Charters and Castles
In 1192, Ireland was neither a country newly conquered nor a land untouched by the...
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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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Two Kilometres From Home
In 2020 Ireland entered a year that began with electoral uncertainty and ended in renewed...
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