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Ice Age Threshold

Ice Age Threshold

Modern calendar-year precision cannot be recovered for 31,997 BCE. The label is a retrospective point...

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Before the Great Ice

Derryvree Interstadial Deposits

“31,963 BCE” is a modern way of labelling a point so remote that it cannot...

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The Doneraile Limestone Assemblage

The Doneraile Limestone Assemblage

The label 31,825 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that can be...

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Synod and Supremacy

Synod and Supremacy

In 1158 Ireland had no uncontested monarch ruling through a central administration. Power rested instead...

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Before the Ice

Marine Isotope Stage Three

“31,972 BCE” is a useful modern label, not a date that people or landscapes in...

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The Cut-Marked Reindeer

The Cut-Marked Reindeer

The label 31,919 BCE is a modern calendar convention, not a year for which Ireland...

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Before the Ice

Derryvree Organic Silts

31,929 BCE is not a date that can be recovered as a single year of...

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Castlepook’s Fading Fauna

Castlepook’s Fading Fauna

The numbered year 31,854 BCE cannot be treated as a date at which a recorded...

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Wind and Exile

Wind and Exile

In 1191, Ireland’s surviving records preserve no single island-wide battle, royal settlement or great ecclesiastical...

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Hostages and High Kings

Hostages and High Kings

In 1165, Ireland was governed through a shifting hierarchy of provincial kings, regional rulers and...

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