Brian At Armagh
A Year On Campaign The year 1005 is one of the clearest moments in the...
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The Castlepook Question
The label “31,907 BCE” gives a useful position in a modern chronological sequence, but it...
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War Across the Shannon
The surviving annals make 1132 one of the more vividly recorded years of Ireland’s early...
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Power Across the Shannon
An Uneasy High-Kingship Ireland entered 1129 under the formidable but incomplete ascendancy of Toirdelbach Ua...
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Anglo, Lisbon and Ryan
A State Under Strain In 2009 Ireland confronted the full force of the economic crisis...
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Fermanagh’s Freshwater Silts
The numbered year 31,874 BCE cannot be treated as a date in the ordinary historical...
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Kings, Croziers and Raids
The surviving record of 1136 presents Ireland as a landscape of competing kingships, armed households,...
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IntCal Calibration Curve
“31,943 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date at which Irish prehistory can...
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Rivers, Kings and Fire
The surviving record of 1089 is unusually vivid but far from complete. Irish annalists noted...
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Fire and Frontier
The surviving chronicles make 1187 memorable for sudden destruction, contested frontiers and the continuing fragmentation...
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