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Elephant Hall’s Tundra Fauna

Elephant Hall’s Tundra Fauna

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,855 BCE. This numbered year is...

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Hostages and Burned Churches

Hostages and Burned Churches

Ireland in 1049 was a country without a single uncontested ruler. Its provincial kings and...

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Greenagho’s Sub-Till Wetland

Greenagho’s Sub-Till Wetland

The label “31,815 BCE” is a modern way of indexing a time far beyond any...

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A Fractured Island

The Killing of Tadc

The Irish annals make 1023 a year of unsettled succession, opportunistic raiding and careful observation...

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Before the Ice

Cave Bone Taphonomy

The label “31,926 BCE” is useful for organising a modern chronology, but it must not...

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A Shattered Kingship

A Shattered Kingship

The Ireland visible in the annals for 1024 was not a quiet island recovering neatly...

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Ireland at the Ice Margin

Ireland at the Ice Margin

31,933 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...

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Kingship Under Strain

Murchad’s Three-Night Kingship

Ireland’s annalists remembered this as a year of brief kingship, forced submission, regional bloodshed, religious...

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Raids and Pilgrims

Raids and Pilgrims

The surviving Irish annals make 1031 a year of hard edges: pilgrim kings returning from...

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A Year of Rival Kings

A Year of Rival Kings

The Ireland visible in the records for 1091 was not a single kingdom governed from...

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