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Kingship in Flux

Kingship in Flux

The surviving Irish annals make 1046 unusually visible, but only in sharp fragments. They record...

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Derryvree’s Silted Tundra

Derryvree’s Silted Tundra

The label 31,857 BCE is useful only as a modern point of reference. No community...

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A Divided Lordship

A Divided Lordship

Ireland in 1205 was not a single political unit, nor was it simply a country...

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Kings And Pilgrims

Kings And Pilgrims

A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1030 is visible mainly through terse monastic...

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A Shattered Kingship

A Shattered Kingship

The Ireland visible in the annals for 1024 was not a quiet island recovering neatly...

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At The Ice Margin

Butchery Marks at Castlepook

A Date Beyond Calendars 31,985 BCE is a useful modern label, not a date that...

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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Bone

Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Bone

The label 31,905 BCE offers a misleading degree of precision. No Irish written record, annually...

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Armies and Intercession

Armies and Intercession

The surviving Irish annals present 1109 as a year of campaigning, hostage-taking, ecclesiastical intervention and...

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A Kingdom Negotiated

A Kingdom Negotiated

In 1161 Ireland was not a single state governed through permanent institutions. It was a...

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Castlepook’s Marked Reindeer Femur

Castlepook’s Marked Reindeer Femur Revisited

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,915 BCE. The number is a...

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