The Trembling Sod
The annalist’s verdict on 1145 was stark: there was “great war” and Ireland became a...
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Maguirebridge’s Interstadial Waters
The numbered year 31,849 BCE cannot be treated as a date that anyone in prehistoric...
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Affrica Founds Grey Abbey
In 1193, Ireland remained a patchwork of competing lordships rather than a country governed from...
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Gofraid Expelled from Dublin
The year was a turning point in the recovery of Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of...
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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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Profanation of Patrick’s Bell
Ireland in 1044 was not a united kingdom governed from a single capital. It was...
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Raids and Reckonings
The surviving record of 1056 is unusually revealing, though far from complete. Irish annals identify...
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Maguirebridge Between the Tills
The label 31,892 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that can be...
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Niall’s Capture in Uí Maine
The surviving annals present 1163 as a year of strained authority rather than decisive conquest....
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Derryvree’s Arctic Lake
The label 31,895 BCE is useful only as a modern point of reference. It cannot...
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