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Cork Caves, Fermanagh Silts

Cork Caves, Fermanagh Silts

31,867 BCE is not a year that can be isolated in Ireland’s archaeological record. It...

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Hostages of the North

Hostages of the North

The surviving Irish annals make 1010 appear, at first glance, a year of deaths and...

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Fermanagh’s Mossy Pools

Fermanagh’s Mossy Pools

A Date Beyond Annals 31,899 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for...

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Kings at Mellifont

Kings at Mellifont

Ireland entered the year with its political balance newly unsettled. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, the formidable...

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Ice-Age Threshold

Ice-Age Threshold

A Date Without a Year “31,983 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a date...

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Before the Ice Advance

Southern Ice-Free Ground

“31,951 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year in which an event in...

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North Cork’s Single Incision

North Cork’s Single Incision

“31,880 BCE” is a modern label, not a date that anyone living in prehistoric Ireland...

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At The Ice Margin

Castlepook Reindeer Incision

The label 31,974 BCE is a modern way of placing a very remote point in...

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Relics And Rivalries

Máel Sechnaill’s Tailtiu Revival

The Ireland of 1007 is unusually visible because several annalistic traditions record a cluster of...

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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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