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A Kingdom Recast

Conchobar Slain at Bealach

The surviving Irish chronicles make this a year of unusually visible political change, although they...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Crag Cave Calcite Growth

Modern calendar precision cannot be carried back reliably to 31,965 BCE. The number is a...

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Shandon’s Red-Deer World

Shandon’s Red-Deer World

The label 31,882 BCE should not be treated as a year in which Irish archaeology...

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A Year of Raids

A Year of Raids

The surviving Irish chronicles present 1053 as a year of warfare conducted on several overlapping...

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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Rib

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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Castlepook’s MIS 3 Fauna

Castlepook’s MIS 3 Fauna

The label 31,910 BCE has a deceptive exactness. No people in Ireland then used a...

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At The Ice Margin

Butchery Marks at Castlepook

A Date Beyond Calendars 31,985 BCE is a useful modern label, not a date that...

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Castlepook’s Uncertain Visitors

Castlepook’s Uncertain Visitors

The label 31,841 BCE is a modern way of locating a moment roughly 33.8 millennia...

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Maguirebridge’s Tundra Mosses

Maguirebridge’s Tundra Mosses

The label 31,823 BCE gives a modern calendar address to a period that had no...

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A Frontier Widens

A Frontier Widens

In 1177 the struggle for Ireland entered a new phase. The Anglo-Norman footholds established since...

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