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A Fractured Lordship

Meiler Captured at Thurles

In 1208, Ireland was not a single political unit moving to a single rhythm. The...

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Before the Ice Peak

Before the Ice Peak

“31,948 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year that can be recovered from...

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Doneraile’s Reindeer Cutmark

Doneraile’s Reindeer Cutmark

A date labelled 31,913 BCE offers a useful point from which to examine a very...

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Hyaena Hall’s Reindeer

Hyaena Hall’s Reindeer

“31,824 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year that anyone in prehistoric Ireland...

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War and Patrick’s Peace

War and Patrick’s Peace

The surviving annals make 1128 one of the more vividly recorded years of early twelfth-century...

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Kingship in Upheaval

Kingship in Upheaval

The record of this year is unusually rich in political deaths, depositions and mutilations. Its...

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Before the Deep Freeze

Crag Cave Interstadial

The label 31,949 BCE offers a useful point on a modern chronological scale, but it...

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Hyaena Land at Castlepook

Hyaena Land at Castlepook

The label 31,810 BCE cannot identify an event in the modern sense. No calendar, written...

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The Castlepook Femur

The Castlepook Femur

The numerical label 31,924 BCE cannot denote an Irish historical year in the ordinary sense....

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Before the Ice

Derryvree Organic Silts

31,929 BCE is not a date that can be recovered as a single year of...

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