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Awbeg Valley Faunal World

Awbeg Valley Faunal World

The label 31,842 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond the...

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Feuds and Sanctuaries

Feuds and Sanctuaries

The annalists who recorded 1041 opened with an unusually candid warning. Ireland’s events, they wrote,...

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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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Castlepook’s Fading Fauna

Castlepook’s Fading Fauna

The numbered year 31,854 BCE cannot be treated as a date at which a recorded...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Derryvree Ice-Free Interval

“31,976 BCE” is a useful point on a modern chronological scale, but it is not...

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Before the Ice

Castlepook Cave Deposits

The label 31,970 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...

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Ireland Under Strain

Ireland Under Strain

The surviving chronicles present 1057 as a year of fractured authority, regional warfare and ecclesiastical...

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Ice-Age Threshold

Ice-Age Threshold

A Date Without a Year “31,983 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a date...

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Kingship and Sacred Guarantees

Kingship and Sacred Guarantees

Ireland in 1143 was dominated by the ambitions of Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht...

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Fire and Reform

Fire and Reform

The surviving record of this year is unusually revealing about Ireland’s religious institutions, even though...

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