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The Doneraile Femur

The Doneraile Femur

The label 31,893 BCE creates an appearance of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No...

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Derryvree’s Periglacial Pool

Derryvree’s Periglacial Pool

“31,813 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year that can be recovered from...

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Power in Transition

Power in Transition

Ireland entered 1117 amid political fragmentation, dynastic rivalry and the after-effects of a severe crisis...

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Fragile Frontiers

Fragile Frontiers

Ireland in 1195 was not governed from a single centre. The lordship claimed by John,...

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War and Patrick’s Peace

War and Patrick’s Peace

The surviving annals make 1128 one of the more vividly recorded years of early twelfth-century...

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Mammoth Cave’s Reindeer Passage

Mammoth Cave’s Reindeer Passage

“31,821 BCE” is a modern way of labelling a point unimaginably far beyond written history,...

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Hyaena Hall’s Open Country

Hyaena Hall’s Open Country

The label 31,903 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that can be...

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Sanctuary and Strife

Sanctuary and Strife

Ireland in 1043 was not governed as a single, centralised kingdom. It was a landscape...

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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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Before the Deep Freeze

Mammoth Cave Fauna

31,959 BCE is a modern chronological label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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