A Realm in Contest
The surviving Irish chronicles portray 1098 as a year of fruitful rain, heavy snow, armed...
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Chapel, Campaigns and Cattle
In 1134 Ireland’s political order remained fluid, competitive and intensely regional. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair was...
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Kings at Mellifont
Ireland entered the year with its political balance newly unsettled. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, the formidable...
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IntCal Calibration Curve
“31,943 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date at which Irish prehistory can...
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Famine and Fracture
Ireland entered 1116 under severe strain. A prolonged crisis within the Uí Briain dynasty had...
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The Doneraile Femur
The label 31,893 BCE creates an appearance of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No...
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The Castlepook Reindeer Question
The date conventionally written as 31,876 BCE creates an impression of precision that the evidence...
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Fire and Fragmented Power
Ireland in 1108 was not a single kingdom governed from one centre. It was a...
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Gofraid Expelled from Dublin
The year was a turning point in the recovery of Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of...
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Battle of Sliabh gCrot
The surviving Irish annals make 1058 unusually visible for an eleventh-century year. They record a...
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