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Castlepook’s Mammoth Assemblage

Castlepook’s Mammoth Assemblage

No event can responsibly be assigned to 31,911 BCE in Ireland. This is a modern...

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Truce and Uprooting

Truce and Uprooting

The surviving record of this year is unusually vivid but uneven. Irish annalists firmly place...

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Frontiers and Fortunes

Frontiers and Fortunes

In 1199 Ireland was neither a single kingdom nor a country wholly controlled from England....

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Derryvree’s Periglacial Pool

Derryvree’s Periglacial Pool

“31,813 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year that can be recovered from...

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Castles and Cattle

Castles and Cattle

For Ireland, 1214 is best approached not as a single national story but as a...

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Hostages and Holy Relics

Hostages and Holy Relics

The surviving chronicles present 1090 as a year of royal bargaining, mobile armies and vulnerable...

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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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A Kingdom Contested

Adrian IV’s Laudabiliter

Ireland in 1155 was governed not as a single, centrally administered realm but through a...

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Mammoth Cave’s Reindeer Passage

Mammoth Cave’s Reindeer Passage

“31,821 BCE” is a modern way of labelling a point unimaginably far beyond written history,...

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Doneraile’s Reindeer Threshold

Doneraile’s Reindeer Threshold

31,870 BCE is not a date that can be matched to an Irish event, ruler,...

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