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Derryvree’s Sub-Till Wetland

Derryvree’s Sub-Till Wetland

31,827 BCE is a modern chronological label, not a year that anyone in prehistoric Ireland...

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Power Across the Shannon

Power Across the Shannon

An Uneasy High-Kingship Ireland entered 1129 under the formidable but incomplete ascendancy of Toirdelbach Ua...

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War Before Clontarf

War Before Clontarf

Reading A Troubled Year The year 1013 in Ireland is best understood as a year...

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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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Before The Deep Freeze

British-Irish Ice Sheet Expansion

“31,955 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be matched to...

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A Kingdom Divided

A Kingdom Divided

Ireland entered the year under the authority of its most powerful king, Toirdelbach Ua Briain,...

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Raids and Rival Kings

Athlone Bridge Collapse

In 1146 Ireland was dominated not by a single settled monarchy but by an overlapping...

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Peace and Conquest

Peace and Conquest

In 1175 Ireland stood between conquest and compromise. Six years had passed since the first...

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Derryvree’s Arctic Lake

Derryvree’s Arctic Lake

The label 31,895 BCE is useful only as a modern point of reference. It cannot...

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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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