Raids and Pilgrims
The surviving Irish annals make 1031 a year of hard edges: pilgrim kings returning from...
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Approaching Last Glacial Maximum
31,935 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be recovered from...
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Fermanagh’s Mossy Pools
A Date Beyond Annals 31,899 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for...
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War Across the Shannon
The surviving annals make 1132 one of the more vividly recorded years of Ireland’s early...
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Defeat at Ard Monann
The surviving annals make 1075 unusually revealing for an eleventh-century Irish year. They record a...
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Gofraid Expelled from Dublin
The year was a turning point in the recovery of Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of...
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Cathal Carrach Restored
In 1200, Ireland was not a single political unit governed from one capital. The island...
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Frontier, Faith and Succession
Ireland in 1220 was not governed as a single political unit. The English crown claimed...
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Kingship and Sacred Guarantees
Ireland in 1143 was dominated by the ambitions of Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht...
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Hostages of the North
The surviving Irish annals make 1010 appear, at first glance, a year of deaths and...
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