Castlepook and Derryvree
The label 31,901 BCE cannot identify a particular Irish event, season, leader or community. At...
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Power After Mag Coba
The Ireland of 1104 was recovering from a major political and military shock. In the...
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Fleets and Rival Kings
Irish politics in 1154 was dominated by the struggle between two formidable rulers: Toirdelbach Ua...
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A Fragile Overkingship
The surviving Irish annals make 1021 appear, at first glance, a year of short notices:...
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Before the Ice Maximum
The label 31,966 BCE should not be mistaken for a date at which Ireland can...
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Awbeg Valley Reindeer
The label “31,877 BCE” is a modern way of placing a very remote point in...
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Southern Irish Raised Beaches
The label 31,952 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone living...
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Hostages And Pilgrims
The surviving record for 1026 is unusually revealing because several Irish annals, though brief, agree...
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Wind and Exile
In 1191, Ireland’s surviving records preserve no single island-wide battle, royal settlement or great ecclesiastical...
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A Kingdom Divided
Ireland entered the year under the authority of its most powerful king, Toirdelbach Ua Briain,...
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