A Year of Raids
The surviving Irish chronicles present 1053 as a year of warfare conducted on several overlapping...
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Castlepook’s Marked Bone
31,961 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be recovered from...
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Elephant Hall’s Bone Archive
The label “31,885 BCE” should not be mistaken for a dated Irish event. No written...
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The Last Hosting
Ireland in 1039 had no single ruler whose authority was accepted throughout the island. The...
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Kings at Mellifont
Ireland entered the year with its political balance newly unsettled. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, the formidable...
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Titanic, Treaty and Savita
In 2012 Ireland was still living through the long aftershock of the banking collapse, but...
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Castlepook’s Reindeer Horizon
“31,923 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...
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Castlepook Cave Deposits
The label 31,970 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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Henry II’s Dublin Court
In 1172 Ireland stood at the centre of a political experiment whose consequences were not...
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Tairdelbach’s Waterford Fleet
Ireland in 1137 was a land of ambitious overkings, shifting alliances and increasingly organised churches,...
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