Comet Over Ireland
Ireland’s surviving annals make 1066 unusually vivid. They record contested kingships, killings in several regions,...
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Maguirebridge Sedge Basin
The label 31,890 BCE gives a useful point of reference, but it cannot identify an...
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Juniper Beneath the Drumlins
The label 31,861 BCE gives a misleading impression of precision. No Irish community kept a...
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A Year of Upheaval
The surviving record of 1061 presents Ireland as a landscape of competing dynasties, vulnerable settlements...
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Castlepook Cave Deposits
The label 31,970 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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Derryvree’s Tundra Pools
The label 31,908 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date at which an...
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Kings, Clergy and Cattle
In 1150 Ireland had no single government, capital or uncontested monarch. Instead, provincial rulers and...
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Tairdelbach’s Divided Ireland
The surviving record of 1135 is unusually rich in short, vivid notices: fleets on the...
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A Kingdom Divided
Ireland entered the year under the authority of its most powerful king, Toirdelbach Ua Briain,...
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A Kingdom Overturned
Few years in medieval Irish history produced so rapid a reversal of political fortune. At...
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