A Fragile Lordship
In 1217 Ireland stood at the meeting-point of several worlds: the lordship governed in the...
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Mammoth Cave Assemblage
31,944 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...
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Contest for Connacht
In 1203, Ireland’s political map was neither simply Gaelic nor simply Anglo-Norman. Kings, provincial dynasties,...
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Castlepook’s Reindeer Horizon
“31,923 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...
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Derryvree’s Inter-Till Pool
The label 31,818 BCE should not be mistaken for a date at which Ireland can...
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Battle of Sliabh gCrot
The surviving Irish annals make 1058 unusually visible for an eleventh-century year. They record a...
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Synod of Inispatrick
For Ireland, 1148 was a year in which political rivalry and ecclesiastical reform repeatedly crossed...
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Raids and Reckonings
The surviving record of 1056 is unusually revealing, though far from complete. Irish annals identify...
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Kings, Clerics and Fire
The record of this year is unusually revealing, but it must be read with care....
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The Awbeg Reindeer Incision
The label 31,816 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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