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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 Changing Lordship

A Changing Lordship

In 1216 Ireland stood at the meeting point of several political worlds: the Gaelic lordships,...

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Derryvree’s Fossil Bogbean

Derryvree’s Fossil Bogbean

31,840 BCE is a modern numerical label, not a year that can be recovered from...

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After Máel Sechnaill

After Máel Sechnaill

A Year Of Endings The Irish year 1022 is dominated by the death of Máel...

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Cashel and Aileach

Cashel and Aileach

A Kingdom Without One King Ireland in 1101 was dominated by a contest between two...

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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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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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Kings, Relics and Winter

Kings, Relics and Winter

Ireland in 1093 was dominated by a contest for power rather than by any universally...

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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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Before the Ice

Mammoth Cave Assemblage

31,944 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...

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