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Doneraile’s Marked Hindleg

Doneraile’s Marked Hindleg

The label 31,811 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...

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Fleets, Fire and Reform

Tairdelbach’s Divided Ireland

The surviving record of 1135 is unusually rich in short, vivid notices: fleets on the...

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Derryvree Between Two Tills

Derryvree Between Two Tills

“31,856 BCE” is a modern numerical label, not a date that can be recovered from...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Greenagho Ice-Free Deposits

The label 31,946 BCE creates a false impression of precision. No event in Ireland can...

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Maguirebridge Mossland

Maguirebridge Mossland

The label 31,820 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...

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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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Before the Ice Sheet

Castlepook’s Mammoth Fauna

31,986 BCE cannot be treated as a date in the ordinary historical sense. No written...

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Hostages and Burned Churches

Hostages and Burned Churches

Ireland in 1049 was a country without a single uncontested ruler. Its provincial kings and...

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Reform and Rivalry

Synod of Inispatrick

For Ireland, 1148 was a year in which political rivalry and ecclesiastical reform repeatedly crossed...

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Before the Ice

Periglacial Shrub Tundra

A Date Beyond Annals 31,937 BCE cannot be treated as a year in the ordinary...

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