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Fleets, Fire and Reform

Tairdelbach’s Waterford Fleet

Ireland in 1137 was a land of ambitious overkings, shifting alliances and increasingly organised churches,...

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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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Kings, Clergy and Cattle

Kings, Clergy and Cattle

In 1150 Ireland had no single government, capital or uncontested monarch. Instead, provincial rulers and...

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Derryvree’s Frostbound Pool

Derryvree’s Frostbound Pool

31,844 BCE is not a date at which Ireland can be assigned an event, a...

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At The Ice Margin

Castlepook Reindeer Incision

The label 31,974 BCE is a modern way of placing a very remote point in...

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A Year of Rival Kings

A Year of Rival Kings

The Ireland visible in the records for 1091 was not a single kingdom governed from...

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The Castlepook Femur

The Castlepook Femur

The numerical label 31,924 BCE cannot denote an Irish historical year in the ordinary sense....

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Frontiers and Fortunes

Frontiers and Fortunes

In 1199 Ireland was neither a single kingdom nor a country wholly controlled from England....

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Fire and Reform

Fire and Reform

The surviving record of this year is unusually revealing about Ireland’s religious institutions, even though...

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Before the Ice Advance

Derryvree Beneath the Till

The label 31,977 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond the...

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