Archive Records

The Blinding of Ruaidrí

The Blinding of Ruaidrí

The surviving annals present 1092 as a year in which a single act of dynastic...

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A Lordship Unsettled

Hugh de Lacy’s Death

Ireland in 1186 was neither conquered nor politically united. Seventeen years after the first Anglo-Norman...

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The Cut-Marked Reindeer

The Cut-Marked Reindeer

The label 31,919 BCE is a modern calendar convention, not a year for which Ireland...

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Ireland Before the Ice

Cork Reindeer Butchery

“31,995 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...

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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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The Awbeg Faunal Window

The Awbeg Faunal Window

31,878 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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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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Maguirebridge’s Tundra Record

Maguirebridge’s Tundra Record

A Date Beyond Calendar Precision The label 31,836 BCE gives a useful position on a...

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Before the Great Ice

Derryvree Interstadial Deposits

“31,963 BCE” is a modern way of labelling a point so remote that it cannot...

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Hyaena Hall’s Reindeer

Hyaena Hall’s Reindeer

“31,824 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year that anyone in prehistoric Ireland...

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