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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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A Fractured Lordship

Cathal Carrach Restored

In 1200, Ireland was not a single political unit governed from one capital. The island...

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Muskeg Beneath Fermanagh

Muskeg Beneath Fermanagh

31,906 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for which Ireland possesses an...

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Raiders on the Shannon

Raiders on the Shannon

The surviving chronicles make 1065 appear as a year of swift raids, disputed kingships and...

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Brian At Armagh

Brian At Armagh

A Year On Campaign The year 1005 is one of the clearest moments in the...

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Cork Caves, Fermanagh Silts

Cork Caves, Fermanagh Silts

31,867 BCE is not a year that can be isolated in Ireland’s archaeological record. It...

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A Kingdom Recast

Henry II’s Dublin Court

In 1172 Ireland stood at the centre of a political experiment whose consequences were not...

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Bridges and Broken Kingships

Tairdelbach Divides Meath

The surviving annals make 1125 unusually visible for a year in pre-Norman Ireland. They record...

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Before the Deep Freeze

Mammoth Cave Fauna

31,959 BCE is a modern chronological label, not a year that can be isolated in...

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Maguirebridge’s Interstadial Waters

Maguirebridge’s Interstadial Waters

The numbered year 31,849 BCE cannot be treated as a date that anyone in prehistoric...

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