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Fleets, Hostages and Harvest

Fleets, Hostages and Harvest

Ireland in 1130 was dominated by ambitious provincial kings, shifting alliances and military expeditions conducted...

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Reform and Rivalry

Synod of Inispatrick

For Ireland, 1148 was a year in which political rivalry and ecclesiastical reform repeatedly crossed...

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Hostages And Pilgrims

Hostages And Pilgrims

The surviving record for 1026 is unusually revealing because several Irish annals, though brief, agree...

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Fractured Power

Fractured Power

In 1196, Ireland was not a single political unit but a crowded field of regional...

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Before the Great Ice

Cork Animal Processing

The label 31,958 BCE must not be mistaken for a year that anyone in Ireland...

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Power After Mag Coba

Power After Mag Coba

The Ireland of 1104 was recovering from a major political and military shock. In the...

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Crag Cave’s Interstadial Drips

Crag Cave’s Interstadial Drips

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,873 BCE. The label is a...

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A Kingdom Recast

Gofraid Expelled from Dublin

The year was a turning point in the recovery of Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of...

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A Year of Unsettled Succession

A Year of Unsettled Succession

For Ireland, 1198 is a year best understood through a small number of carefully recorded...

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Fleets and Rival Kings

Fleets and Rival Kings

Irish politics in 1154 was dominated by the struggle between two formidable rulers: Toirdelbach Ua...

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