A Year of Ascendancy
The surviving Irish annals give 1068 an unusually coherent character. They record the elimination of...
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Uneven Ice-Sheet Advance
31,939 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from the Irish archaeological record...
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A Kingship Transferred
Ireland in 1183 was divided among competing Gaelic kingdoms and recently established Anglo-Norman lordships. No...
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Hyaena Land, Castlepook
The label 31,920 BCE must not be treated as the date of a recorded Irish...
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Hostages and Burning
The surviving annals portray 1149 as a year of hard campaigning, hostage-taking and destructive raiding....
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Fire and Frontier
The surviving chronicles make 1187 memorable for sudden destruction, contested frontiers and the continuing fragmentation...
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A Year of Truces
For Ireland, 1102 was a year of negotiated pauses rather than settled peace. Two formidable...
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Contest for Connacht
In 1203, Ireland’s political map was neither simply Gaelic nor simply Anglo-Norman. Kings, provincial dynasties,...
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Hostages at Athlone
The year 1002 stands out in Irish history because a political order long dominated by...
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St Andrews and the Port Tunnel
Ireland in 2006 appeared, at first glance, to be moving confidently through an era of...
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