Kings And Pilgrims
A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1030 is visible mainly through terse monastic...
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The GPO and Brexit Shock
Ireland in 2016 lived simultaneously in commemoration and uncertainty. The State marked one hundred years...
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Snow, War and Mortality
Ireland’s surviving chronicles remember 1095 as a year of severe cold, ambitious campaigning, local political...
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Fractured Power
In 1196, Ireland was not a single political unit but a crowded field of regional...
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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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A Changing Lordship
In 1216 Ireland stood at the meeting point of several political worlds: the Gaelic lordships,...
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Shandon’s Red-Deer World
The label 31,882 BCE should not be treated as a year in which Irish archaeology...
View RecordDecriminalisation and Downing Street
In 1993 Ireland entered a new political phase. Albert Reynolds remained Taoiseach, but from January...
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The Trembling Sod
The annalist’s verdict on 1145 was stark: there was “great war” and Ireland became a...
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Kings, Pilgrims and Relics
Ireland in 1034 was a land of competing over-kings, ambitious regional dynasties, wealthy churches and...
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