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Derryvree’s Tundra Sedgebeds

Derryvree’s Tundra Sedgebeds

Modern calendar precision cannot responsibly be applied to Ireland in 31,860 BCE. The label is...

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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Rib

Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Rib

“31,828 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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Munster Under Pressure

Battle of Sliabh gCrot

The surviving Irish annals make 1058 unusually visible for an eleventh-century year. They record a...

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Fermanagh’s Silt Interval

Fermanagh’s Silt Interval

“31,868 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a date at which anyone in Ireland...

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Greenagho’s Mosses

Greenagho’s Mosses

31,909 BCE is a modern chronological label, not a year that anyone then living in...

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Carman And Contest

Carman And Contest

A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1033 is visible chiefly through terse notices...

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Doneraile’s Reindeer Ledger

Doneraile’s Reindeer Ledger

The label 31,835 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that anyone in...

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Succession and Pressure

Succession and Pressure

In 1194, Ireland’s political map was neither settled nor neatly divided between “Irish” and “Norman”...

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Kingship and Sacred Guarantees

Kingship and Sacred Guarantees

Ireland in 1143 was dominated by the ambitions of Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht...

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Derryvree’s Frostbound Pool

Derryvree’s Frostbound Pool

31,844 BCE is not a date at which Ireland can be assigned an event, a...

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