Archive Records

Fractured Lordships

Fractured Lordships

The surviving Irish record for 1032 is not a continuous narrative but a set of...

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Conflict at Sacred Centres

Conflict at Sacred Centres

The surviving Irish annals present 1038 as a year of sharp local conflict rather than...

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Muskeg Beneath Fermanagh

Muskeg Beneath Fermanagh

31,906 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for which Ireland possesses an...

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Before the Ice Advance

Derryvree’s Tundra Archive

31,989 BCE is not a date at which Ireland can be described year by year...

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Connacht Reclaimed

Connacht Reclaimed

In 1202 the most consequential change in Ireland occurred in Connacht, where a dynastic war...

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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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Hostages And Pilgrims

Hostages And Pilgrims

The surviving record for 1026 is unusually revealing because several Irish annals, though brief, agree...

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A Northern Reckoning

A Northern Reckoning

The surviving chronicles make 1078 unusually visible in northern Ireland. They record no single invasion...

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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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Castlepook’s Scored Femur

Castlepook’s Scored Femur

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,837 BCE. The label is a...

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