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Fleets, Fire and Reform

Tairdelbach’s Waterford Fleet

Ireland in 1137 was a land of ambitious overkings, shifting alliances and increasingly organised churches,...

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At The Ice Margin

Butchery Marks at Castlepook

A Date Beyond Calendars 31,985 BCE is a useful modern label, not a date that...

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A Lordship Unsettled

Hugh de Lacy’s Death

Ireland in 1186 was neither conquered nor politically united. Seventeen years after the first Anglo-Norman...

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Derryvree’s Buried Lakebed

Derryvree’s Buried Lakebed

The label 31,883 BCE offers a useful point on a modern timeline, but it cannot...

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Munster’s Shattered Balance

Munster’s Shattered Balance

Ireland’s political order changed sharply during 1151. The year was dominated by a struggle for...

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Doneraile’s Mammoth Cave

Doneraile’s Mammoth Cave

The numbered year 31,914 BCE cannot be treated as a date at which a recorded...

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The Fall at Odba

The Fall at Odba

For Ireland, 1072 was a year of abrupt political change. Diarmait mac Máel na mBó,...

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Before the Deep Freeze

Approaching Last Glacial Maximum

31,935 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be recovered from...

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The Castlepook Femur

The Castlepook Femur

The numerical label 31,924 BCE cannot denote an Irish historical year in the ordinary sense....

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Doneraile’s Incised Reindeer Femur

Doneraile’s Incised Reindeer Femur

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,832 BCE. Nobody on the island...

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