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Raids And Relics

Raids And Relics

A Year Preserved In Annals The Ireland of 1027 is visible chiefly through terse annalistic...

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Ireland Before Settlement

Ireland Before Settlement

“31,993 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be matched to...

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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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Castlepook’s Open Tundra

Castlepook’s Open Tundra

“31,852 BCE” is a modern numerical label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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Peace at Fid Conaill

Peace at Fid Conaill

The surviving record of 1097 is unusually revealing. Ireland’s annalists noted a confrontation between the...

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Castles and Contested Kingship

Castles and Contested Kingship

Ireland in 1184 was governed not by a single uncontested authority but through overlapping claims,...

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Before the Great Ice

Castlepook Reindeer Femur

31,994 BCE is not a year that can be recovered with modern calendar precision. It...

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Greenagho’s Sub-Till Wetland

Greenagho’s Sub-Till Wetland

The label “31,815 BCE” is a modern way of indexing a time far beyond any...

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A Kingdom Contested

Adrian IV’s Laudabiliter

Ireland in 1155 was governed not as a single, centrally administered realm but through a...

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Brian’s New Order

Brian’s New Order

The record for this year is fuller than many earlier annalistic years, but it is...

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