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War Across the Provinces

War Across the Provinces

Ireland in 1084 was dominated by ambitious overkings, mobile armies and the struggle to turn...

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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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Before Maximum Ice

Before Maximum Ice

31,950 BCE is not a year for which Irish history can be written in the...

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Derryvree’s Freshwater Tundra

Derryvree’s Freshwater Tundra

31,814 BCE is not a date at which Irish archaeology can identify a particular occurrence....

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Kings, Relics and Visitors

Kings, Relics and Visitors

The surviving records make 1079 unusually revealing for an eleventh-century Irish year. They describe campaigning...

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Before the Ice

Castlepook Cave Deposits

The label 31,970 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...

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Derryvree’s Tundra Sedgebeds

Derryvree’s Tundra Sedgebeds

Modern calendar precision cannot responsibly be applied to Ireland in 31,860 BCE. The label is...

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Castlepook’s Faunal Boundary

Castlepook’s Faunal Boundary

The label 31,866 BCE gives a misleading impression of precision. No Irish event can be...

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Castlepook’s Reindeer Horizon

Castlepook’s Reindeer Horizon

“31,923 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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Fermanagh’s Freshwater Silts

Fermanagh’s Freshwater Silts

The numbered year 31,874 BCE cannot be treated as a date in the ordinary historical...

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