Peace and Conquest
In 1175 Ireland stood between conquest and compromise. Six years had passed since the first...
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Fires and Hostages
The year 1020 in Ireland is unusually vivid in the annalistic record because several notices...
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Clontarf And Aftermath
For Ireland, 1014 is dominated by one firmly dated event: the Battle of Clontarf, fought...
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Frontiers and Fractures
In 1209, Ireland was not a single political unit moving to one national rhythm. The...
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Reindeer Processing at Castlepook
The label 31,979 BCE gives a useful point on a modern timeline, but it does...
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Derryvree Organic Silts
31,929 BCE is not a date that can be recovered as a single year of...
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Maguirebridge’s Moss-Rich Silt
A Date Without a Diary “31,900 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a year...
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Hostages and Burning
The surviving annals portray 1149 as a year of hard campaigning, hostage-taking and destructive raiding....
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Brian’s Northern Ascendancy
The year 1011 falls in the last, formidable phase of Brian Bórama’s supremacy. The annals...
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Murchad’s Three-Night Kingship
Ireland’s annalists remembered this as a year of brief kingship, forced submission, regional bloodshed, religious...
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