Snow, Hostages and Reform
Ireland in 1105 was dominated by the contest between Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster...
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Feuds and Sanctuaries
The annalists who recorded 1041 opened with an unusually candid warning. Ireland’s events, they wrote,...
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Derryvree’s Buried Fen
The label 31,879 BCE is a modern way of marking a point about 33,828 years...
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Hostages And Sanctuaries
In Ireland, 1025 was a year of contested authority rather than a year of one...
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Butchery Marks at Castlepook
A Date Beyond Calendars 31,985 BCE is a useful modern label, not a date that...
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Conchobar Slain at Bealach
The surviving Irish chronicles make this a year of unusually visible political change, although they...
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Reindeer Butchery at Castlepook
The label 31,981 BCE is useful for filing an Irish past that has no written...
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Kings, Pilgrims and Relics
Ireland in 1034 was a land of competing over-kings, ambitious regional dynasties, wealthy churches and...
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Derryvree’s Fossil Bogbean
31,840 BCE is a modern numerical label, not a year that can be recovered from...
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Pallia and Partitions
Two assemblies defined Ireland in 1152. One gathered churchmen to settle the island’s ecclesiastical order;...
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