Archive Records

Before the Ice Sheet

Crag Cave Calcite Growth

Modern calendar precision cannot be carried back reliably to 31,965 BCE. The number is a...

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War Before Clontarf

War Before Clontarf

Reading A Troubled Year The year 1013 in Ireland is best understood as a year...

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Wind And Bargains

Wind And Bargains

Ireland in 1222 was neither a single kingdom nor a country governed in one uniform...

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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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Power Across the Shannon

Power Across the Shannon

An Uneasy High-Kingship Ireland entered 1129 under the formidable but incomplete ascendancy of Toirdelbach Ua...

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The Shannon Barrier

The Shannon Barrier

A Year On The Defensive The Irish annals make 1001 look, at first glance, like...

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Ice Age Ireland

Shandon Cave Fauna

“31,980 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date that prehistoric people in Ireland...

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Kingship in Upheaval

Kingship in Upheaval

The record of this year is unusually rich in political deaths, depositions and mutilations. Its...

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The Bannow Landings

The Bannow Landings

In 1169 a regional struggle for the kingship of Leinster became an event of lasting...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Midlandian Glacial Stage

“31,928 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year for which Ireland has an...

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