A Year of Strain
In 1081 Ireland was not a single state governed from one capital. It was a...
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Doneraile’s Marked Hindleg
The label 31,811 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...
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Fortunes of the North
In 1197, the sharpest recorded upheavals in Ireland occurred in the north, where John de...
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Power and Pilgrimage
The surviving annals present 1051 as a year of regional struggles rather than a single...
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Doneraile’s Mammoth Cave
The numbered year 31,914 BCE cannot be treated as a date at which a recorded...
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Castlepook Reindeer Toolmarks
“31,964 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a date that people living in prehistoric...
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Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair Dies
For Ireland’s ruling dynasties, 1156 was a year of succession, coercion and rapidly changing alliances....
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Fire and Foray
For Ireland, 1112 was not a year of a single decisive battle or royal succession....
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Atlantic Ice Sheet Growth
“31,991 BCE” is a modern way of labelling a point unimaginably far beyond written history....
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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Rib
“31,828 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that can be isolated in...
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