A Fragile Peace
The Ireland of 1016 was still living in the shadow of the Battle of Clontarf....
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Ruaidrí’s Royal Peace
Power at the Centre Ireland in 1168 stood between two defining moments. The collapse of...
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Castles and Cattle
For Ireland, 1214 is best approached not as a single national story but as a...
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Connacht Holds Firm
In 1188, the most consequential Irish event recorded by the annals was a failed Anglo-Norman-led...
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Castlepook’s Bone Chambers
31,838 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s archaeological record in...
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Hostages and Holy Relics
The surviving chronicles present 1090 as a year of royal bargaining, mobile armies and vulnerable...
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The Destruction of Kincora
The year opened in a kingdom unsettled by the death, in 1086, of Tairdelbach Ua...
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A Kingship Transformed
The political landscape of Ireland shifted decisively during this year. Muirchertach Ua Briain, the leading...
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Castles and Contested Kingship
Ireland in 1184 was governed not by a single uncontested authority but through overlapping claims,...
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Borders And Authority
Ireland in 1218 was not a single political arena. The lordship claimed by the young...
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