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Raids and Reckonings

Raids and Reckonings

The surviving record of 1056 is unusually revealing, though far from complete. Irish annals identify...

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The Doneraile Tundra

The Doneraile Tundra

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,916 BCE. This label is a...

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Armies Held Apart

Armies Held Apart

Ireland in 1113 was dominated by a contest between two exceptionally powerful overkings: Muirchertach Ua...

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The Cut-Marked Reindeer

The Cut-Marked Reindeer

The label 31,919 BCE is a modern calendar convention, not a year for which Ireland...

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Ireland Before the Ice

Castlepook Reindeer Marks

31,998 BCE is not a date that can be matched to a recorded Irish event....

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Borders And Authority

Borders And Authority

Ireland in 1218 was not a single political arena. The lordship claimed by the young...

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Maguirebridge’s Buried Freshwater

Maguirebridge’s Buried Freshwater

The label 31,848 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that people in...

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Fractured Peace

Fractured Peace

In 1017 Ireland was living in the unsettled aftermath of Clontarf. Brian Bórama had been...

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Greenagho’s Mosses

Greenagho’s Mosses

31,909 BCE is a modern chronological label, not a year that anyone then living in...

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Peace and Conquest

Peace and Conquest

In 1175 Ireland stood between conquest and compromise. Six years had passed since the first...

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