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Derryvree’s Sedge Marsh

Derryvree’s Sedge Marsh

31,833 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be recovered from...

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Ports and Power

Ports and Power

In 1170 the struggle for Leinster became a contest over Ireland’s principal eastern ports and,...

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Derryvree’s Freshwater Window

Derryvree’s Freshwater Window

The label 31,843 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone then...

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Bridges and Broken Kingships

Tairdelbach Divides Meath

The surviving annals make 1125 unusually visible for a year in pre-Norman Ireland. They record...

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A Kingship Unravels

A Kingship Unravels

A Sudden Political Crisis Ireland entered 1114 without a single, uncontested high king. Muirchertach Ua...

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Reform and Reckoning

Reform and Reckoning

In 1162 Ireland stood at a revealing midpoint between political consolidation and renewed instability. Muirchertach...

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The Castlepook Femur

The Castlepook Femur

The numerical label 31,924 BCE cannot denote an Irish historical year in the ordinary sense....

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Maguirebridge Sedge Basin

Maguirebridge Sedge Basin

The label 31,890 BCE gives a useful point of reference, but it cannot identify an...

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Dryas at Derryvree

Dryas at Derryvree

The label 31,872 BCE is useful for placing this entry in a long chronological sequence,...

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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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