Kings, Relics and Visitors
The surviving records make 1079 unusually revealing for an eleventh-century Irish year. They describe campaigning...
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Borders And Authority
Ireland in 1218 was not a single political arena. The lordship claimed by the young...
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Doneraile’s Faunal Corridor
A Date Beyond Annals “31,897 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a year that...
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Castles, Fleets and Hostages
Ireland in 1124 was dominated by the restless ambitions of Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, king of...
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Approaching Last Glacial Maximum
31,935 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be recovered from...
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Rival Kingships
In 1201, Ireland’s political map was shaped less by a single conquest than by overlapping...
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Mammoth Cave Assemblage
31,944 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...
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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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Hostages and Holy Relics
The surviving chronicles present 1090 as a year of royal bargaining, mobile armies and vulnerable...
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Ice Before History
A Date Beyond Calendar History 31,975 BCE is a modern way of labelling a point...
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