Archive Records

Ireland Before the Ice

Castlepook Reindeer Marks

31,998 BCE is not a date that can be matched to a recorded Irish event....

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Chapel, Campaigns and Cattle

Chapel, Campaigns and Cattle

In 1134 Ireland’s political order remained fluid, competitive and intensely regional. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair was...

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Ice-Age Ireland

Ice-Age Ireland

The label 31,971 BCE creates an impression of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. Nobody...

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The Blinding of Ruaidrí

The Blinding of Ruaidrí

The surviving annals present 1092 as a year in which a single act of dynastic...

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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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Connacht Ascendant

Connacht Ascendant

The surviving Irish annals make 1122 unusually visible, but they do not provide a continuous...

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Awbeg Limestone Fauna

Awbeg Limestone Fauna

“31,865 BCE” is a useful modern filing label, not a date at which Ireland can...

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Before the Ice

Castlepook’s Pleistocene Fauna

“31,990 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date at which an Irish event...

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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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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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