Butchery Marks at Castlepook
A Date Beyond Calendars 31,985 BCE is a useful modern label, not a date that...
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Wind And Bargains
Ireland in 1222 was neither a single kingdom nor a country governed in one uniform...
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A Kingship Transformed
The political landscape of Ireland shifted decisively during this year. Muirchertach Ua Briain, the leading...
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Periglacial Shrub Tundra
A Date Beyond Annals 31,937 BCE cannot be treated as a year in the ordinary...
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Mellifont and Rival Kings
The surviving record of 1142 is unusually revealing. Irish annalists describe royal deaths, disputed successions,...
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Castlepook’s Cold-Stage Fauna
“31,996 BCE” is a modern retrospective label, not a date anyone living then could have...
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A Divided Lordship
Ireland in 1205 was not a single political unit, nor was it simply a country...
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The Doneraile Reindeer Clue
The label “31,889 BCE” gives a useful point of orientation for a modern chronological series,...
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The Bannow Landings
In 1169 a regional struggle for the kingship of Leinster became an event of lasting...
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Kings at Mellifont
Ireland entered the year with its political balance newly unsettled. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, the formidable...
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