Derryvree’s Freshwater Tundra
31,814 BCE is not a date at which Irish archaeology can identify a particular occurrence....
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Power Across Provinces
A Year Seen Through Annals The surviving Irish annals give 1110 an unusually clear, if...
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The Last Hosting
Ireland in 1039 had no single ruler whose authority was accepted throughout the island. The...
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Kings And Pilgrims
A Year Seen Through Annals The Ireland of 1030 is visible mainly through terse monastic...
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Derryvree Between Two Tills
“31,856 BCE” is a modern numerical label, not a date that can be recovered from...
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Brian’s Northern Ascendancy
The year 1011 falls in the last, formidable phase of Brian Bórama’s supremacy. The annals...
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Castlepook’s Reindeer Country
Modern calendar notation gives the appearance of exactness that the evidence cannot sustain. No event...
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Derryvree’s Periglacial Waters
The number 31,904 BCE is useful as a point of orientation, but it cannot describe...
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Strongbow’s Death
Ireland entered 1176 under a peace that existed more convincingly on parchment than on the...
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Relics and Rival Kings
The surviving record of this year is brief but unusually vivid. Irish annalists noted a...
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