Hostages and Burning
The surviving annals portray 1149 as a year of hard campaigning, hostage-taking and destructive raiding....
View Record
A Fragile Lordship
In 1217 Ireland stood at the meeting-point of several worlds: the lordship governed in the...
View Record
Maguirebridge’s Tundra Lake
“31,896 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that anybody in Ireland could...
View Record
Derryvree’s Arctic Sediments
31,834 BCE cannot be treated as a year in the ordinary historical sense. No written...
View Record
Derryvree’s Tundra Sedgebeds
Modern calendar precision cannot responsibly be applied to Ireland in 31,860 BCE. The label is...
View Record
Awbeg Valley Faunal World
The label 31,842 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond the...
View Record
Frontiers and Fractures
In 1209, Ireland was not a single political unit moving to one national rhythm. The...
View Record
Reindeer Butchery at Castlepook
The label 31,981 BCE is useful for filing an Irish past that has no written...
View Record
Fractured Power
In 1196, Ireland was not a single political unit but a crowded field of regional...
View Record
War, Truce and Murrain
The Ireland recorded under 1133 was politically vigorous but deeply unstable. Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, king...
View Record