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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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Greenagho’s Tundra Basin

Greenagho’s Tundra Basin

The label 31,881 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond written...

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Sanctuary and Strife

Sanctuary and Strife

Ireland in 1043 was not governed as a single, centralised kingdom. It was a landscape...

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Bridges and Broken Peace

Bridges and Broken Peace

The year is unusually well illuminated by Irish annals, though their accounts do not always...

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Before The Deep Freeze

British-Irish Ice Sheet Expansion

“31,955 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date that can be matched to...

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Hostages And Sanctuaries

Hostages And Sanctuaries

In Ireland, 1025 was a year of contested authority rather than a year of one...

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Doneraile’s Reindeer Cutmark

Doneraile’s Reindeer Cutmark

A date labelled 31,913 BCE offers a useful point from which to examine a very...

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A Northern Reckoning

A Northern Reckoning

The surviving chronicles make 1078 unusually visible in northern Ireland. They record no single invasion...

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Before the Ice

Castlepook Cave Deposits

The label 31,970 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...

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Hostings and Hired Swords

Hostings and Hired Swords

Ireland in 1080 was not a unified kingdom governed from a permanent capital. It was...

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