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Ireland at the Ice Margin

Ireland at the Ice Margin

31,933 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...

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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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A Fragile Peace

A Fragile Peace

The Ireland of 1016 was still living in the shadow of the Battle of Clontarf....

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Awbeg Valley Faunal World

Awbeg Valley Faunal World

The label 31,842 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond the...

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Connacht Under Pressure

Connacht Under Pressure

The surviving Irish annals present 1062 as a year of fractured authority rather than island-wide...

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At The Ice Margin

Castlepook Reindeer Incision

The label 31,974 BCE is a modern way of placing a very remote point in...

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The Doneraile Femur

The Doneraile Femur

The label 31,893 BCE creates an appearance of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No...

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Mammoth Cave, Derryvree Silts

Mammoth Cave, Derryvree Silts

The label 31,862 BCE is useful only as a modern point of reference. No community...

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Truce and Uprooting

Truce and Uprooting

The surviving record of this year is unusually vivid but uneven. Irish annalists firmly place...

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Maguirebridge Mossland

Maguirebridge Mossland

The label 31,820 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone in...

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