Derryvree’s Moss and Silt
“31,846 BCE” is a modern label imposed on a time far beyond written records, named...
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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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Peace at Fid Conaill
The surviving record of 1097 is unusually revealing. Ireland’s annalists noted a confrontation between the...
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A Year of Truces
For Ireland, 1102 was a year of negotiated pauses rather than settled peace. Two formidable...
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Five Million and Stormont
In 2022 Ireland moved from the extraordinary disciplines of the pandemic into a year of...
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Crag Cave Interstadial
The label 31,949 BCE offers a useful point on a modern chronological scale, but it...
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Fleets, Hostages and Harvest
Ireland in 1130 was dominated by ambitious provincial kings, shifting alliances and military expeditions conducted...
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Castlepook’s Fading Fauna
The numbered year 31,854 BCE cannot be treated as a date at which a recorded...
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Peace Amid Storms
For Ireland, 1107 was a year of uneasy political balance, violent regional disputes and exceptionally...
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Castles, Fleets and Hostages
Ireland in 1124 was dominated by the restless ambitions of Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, king of...
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