Carman And Contest
A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1033 is visible chiefly through terse notices...
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A Kingdom Changes Hands
The Shape of the Record The surviving Irish annals make 1064 unusually significant for Munster,...
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Doneraile Reindeer Bone
Modern calendar-year precision cannot be applied to Ireland in 31,978 BCE. The number is a...
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Frontiers of Kingship
Ireland entered 1100 without a single monarch capable of ruling the whole island as a...
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Castlepook’s Mammoth Fauna
31,986 BCE cannot be treated as a date in the ordinary historical sense. No written...
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Power Shifts West
Ireland entered 1121 with no single monarch exercising permanent government over the whole island. Power...
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Crown Comes Ashore
In 1171 Ireland’s political order entered a new and uncertain phase. The year began with...
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Fire and Frontier
The surviving chronicles make 1187 memorable for sudden destruction, contested frontiers and the continuing fragmentation...
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The Awbeg Faunal Window
31,878 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...
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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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