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Before the Deep Freeze

Castlepook Reindeer Butchery

The label 31,992 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that people living...

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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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The Repeal Vote and Backstop

The Repeal Vote and Backstop

A Year of Consequence In 2018, Ireland confronted questions of bodily autonomy, national identity, borders...

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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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Before the Ice Advance

Southern Irish Raised Beaches

The label 31,952 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone living...

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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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Before the Great Ice

Carden’s Reindeer Cut Mark

Modern calendar precision cannot be applied responsibly to Ireland in 31,957 BCE. This number is...

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Munster’s Shattered Balance

Munster’s Shattered Balance

Ireland’s political order changed sharply during 1151. The year was dominated by a struggle for...

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Kingship and Reform

Kingship and Reform

The surviving Irish annals make 1106 unusually revealing. They record no single battle or assembly...

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The Struggle at Ardee

The Struggle at Ardee

Ireland’s annalists remembered 1159 above all as a year of armies, alliances and contested crossings....

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