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Derryvree’s Freshwater Tundra

Derryvree’s Freshwater Tundra

31,814 BCE is not a date at which Irish archaeology can identify a particular occurrence....

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Brian At Armagh

Brian At Armagh

A Year On Campaign The year 1005 is one of the clearest moments in the...

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Relics and Rival Kings

Relics and Rival Kings

The surviving record of this year is brief but unusually vivid. Irish annalists noted a...

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Hostages of the North

Hostages of the North

The surviving Irish annals make 1010 appear, at first glance, a year of deaths and...

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Castles and Contested Kingship

Castles and Contested Kingship

Ireland in 1184 was governed not by a single uncontested authority but through overlapping claims,...

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Doneraile’s Reindeer Landscape

Doneraile’s Reindeer Landscape

The label 31,847 BCE creates a useful point of orientation, but it must not be...

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Before the Ice Sheet

Midlandian Glacial Stage

“31,928 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a year for which Ireland has an...

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Rival Kingships

Rival Kingships

In 1201, Ireland’s political map was shaped less by a single conquest than by overlapping...

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Snow, War and Mortality

Snow, War and Mortality

Ireland’s surviving chronicles remember 1095 as a year of severe cold, ambitious campaigning, local political...

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Before the Ice

Cave Bone Taphonomy

The label “31,926 BCE” is useful for organising a modern chronology, but it must not...

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