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A Kingship Unravels

A Kingship Unravels

A Sudden Political Crisis Ireland entered 1114 without a single, uncontested high king. Muirchertach Ua...

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Before the Deep Freeze

Approaching Last Glacial Maximum

31,935 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be recovered from...

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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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Raids and Rival Kings

Murchad’s Defeat at Durrow

The surviving Irish chronicles present 1059 as a year of raids, dynastic killings and political...

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Ice Age Ireland

Castlepook Reindeer Cut Mark

31,984 BCE is not a date at which Ireland can be assigned a recorded event....

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Castlepook’s Marked Reindeer Femur

Castlepook’s Marked Reindeer Femur Revisited

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,915 BCE. The number is a...

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The Doneraile Bone Mark

The Doneraile Bone Mark

The label 31,817 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that anybody in...

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Before the Ice Advance

Castlepook Cave Mammals

The label 31,942 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...

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Fortunes of the North

Fortunes of the North

In 1197, the sharpest recorded upheavals in Ireland occurred in the north, where John de...

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Before the Ice Advance

Early Animal Butchery

The label 31,931 BCE is a modern way of indexing deep time, not a year...

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