A Kingdom Changes Hands
The Shape of the Record The surviving Irish annals make 1064 unusually significant for Munster,...
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The Blinding of Ruaidrí
The surviving annals present 1092 as a year in which a single act of dynastic...
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Doneraile’s Reindeer Cutmark
A date labelled 31,913 BCE offers a useful point from which to examine a very...
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Cut-Marked Reindeer Bone
The label 31,999 BCE should not be mistaken for a date that people in Ice...
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War, Truce and Murrain
The Ireland recorded under 1133 was politically vigorous but deeply unstable. Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, king...
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Hugh de Lacy’s Death
Ireland in 1186 was neither conquered nor politically united. Seventeen years after the first Anglo-Norman...
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Periglacial Shrub Tundra
A Date Beyond Annals 31,937 BCE cannot be treated as a year in the ordinary...
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Fermanagh’s Freshwater Silts
The numbered year 31,874 BCE cannot be treated as a date in the ordinary historical...
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A Year of Truces
For Ireland, 1102 was a year of negotiated pauses rather than settled peace. Two formidable...
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A Kingdom Negotiated
In 1161 Ireland was not a single state governed through permanent institutions. It was a...
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