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Castlepook’s Scored Femur

Castlepook’s Scored Femur

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,837 BCE. The label is a...

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Fractured Lordships

Fractured Lordships

The surviving Irish record for 1032 is not a continuous narrative but a set of...

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Kingship in Flux

Kingship in Flux

The surviving Irish annals make 1046 unusually visible, but only in sharp fragments. They record...

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Peace and Conquest

Peace and Conquest

In 1175 Ireland stood between conquest and compromise. Six years had passed since the first...

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Fleets, Fire and Reform

Tairdelbach’s Waterford Fleet

Ireland in 1137 was a land of ambitious overkings, shifting alliances and increasingly organised churches,...

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Before the Ice Advance

Ruth Carden’s Cut Mark

A Calendar Label, Not an Event “31,934 BCE” is a modern way of naming a...

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Hostings And Harvests

Hostings And Harvests

The surviving record for 1012 is terse but revealing. It was not the year of...

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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

Castlepook’s Cold-Stage Fauna

“31,996 BCE” is a modern retrospective label, not a date anyone living then could have...

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A King on Campaign

A King on Campaign

The surviving annals portray 1126 as a year of exceptional royal movement, regional warfare and...

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