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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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Muskeg Beneath Fermanagh

Muskeg Beneath Fermanagh

31,906 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for which Ireland possesses an...

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A Kingship Transformed

A Kingship Transformed

The political landscape of Ireland shifted decisively during this year. Muirchertach Ua Briain, the leading...

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Doneraile’s Butchery Debate

Doneraile’s Butchery Debate

The label 31,858 BCE is a modern convenience, not a year that anyone living in...

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War Before Clontarf

War Before Clontarf

Reading A Troubled Year The year 1013 in Ireland is best understood as a year...

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Derryvree’s Tundra Silt

Derryvree’s Tundra Silt

31,831 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from the Irish archaeological record...

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A Shattered Kingship

A Shattered Kingship

The Ireland visible in the annals for 1024 was not a quiet island recovering neatly...

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A Fragile Conquest

A Fragile Conquest

Ireland in 1173 stood between invasion and settlement. Four years had passed since the first...

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Frontier, Faith and Succession

Frontier, Faith and Succession

Ireland in 1220 was not governed as a single political unit. The English crown claimed...

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Ireland at the Ice Margin

Ireland at the Ice Margin

31,933 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...

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