Shifting Lordships
In 1219, Ireland did not experience a single island-wide turning point. Instead, the year exposed...
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Fragile Frontiers
Ireland in 1195 was not governed from a single centre. The lordship claimed by John,...
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Relics and Rival Kings
The surviving record of this year is brief but unusually vivid. Irish annalists noted a...
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Castlepook Reindeer Femur
31,994 BCE is not a year that can be recovered with modern calendar precision. It...
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Máel Sechnaill’s Leinster Hostages
The year 1015 in Ireland was the first full year after the catastrophe and opportunity...
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Castlepook’s Putative Toolmark
31,936 BCE is a modern calendar label, not a year for which Ireland’s archaeological record...
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Castlepook’s Mammoth Assemblage
No event can responsibly be assigned to 31,911 BCE in Ireland. This is a modern...
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The Fall at Odba
For Ireland, 1072 was a year of abrupt political change. Diarmait mac Máel na mBó,...
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Elephant Hall’s Mammoth Bone
The label 31,905 BCE offers a misleading degree of precision. No Irish written record, annually...
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Castlepook’s Lone Incision
31,830 BCE is a modern numerical label, not a year that can be recovered from...
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