Reindeer Bone at Mammoth Cave
The label 31,871 BCE gives a useful point of entry, but it cannot describe a...
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Raiders on the Shannon
The surviving chronicles make 1065 appear as a year of swift raids, disputed kingships and...
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Kingship and Reform
The surviving Irish annals make 1106 unusually revealing. They record no single battle or assembly...
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The Struggle at Ardee
Ireland’s annalists remembered 1159 above all as a year of armies, alliances and contested crossings....
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North Cork’s Single Incision
“31,880 BCE” is a modern label, not a date that anyone living in prehistoric Ireland...
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Kings, Relics and Winter
Ireland in 1093 was dominated by a contest for power rather than by any universally...
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Doneraile’s Cave Archive
31,850 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s prehistoric record in...
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Royal Power Tested
In 1210 Ireland was the scene of King John’s most forceful personal intervention in the...
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Maguirebridge’s Interstadial Waters
The numbered year 31,849 BCE cannot be treated as a date that anyone in prehistoric...
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The Trembling Sod
The annalist’s verdict on 1145 was stark: there was “great war” and Ireland became a...
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