Henry Of London’s Return
In 1221, Ireland was neither a single kingdom nor a territory securely ruled from Dublin....
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Awbeg Valley Faunal World
The label 31,842 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond the...
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Strongbow’s Death
Ireland entered 1176 under a peace that existed more convincingly on parchment than on the...
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Castlepook’s Wandering Herds
31,888 BCE is not a year to which an Irish event can responsibly be assigned....
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Famine and Fracture
Ireland entered 1116 under severe strain. A prolonged crisis within the Uí Briain dynasty had...
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Shandon Cave Fauna
“31,980 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date that prehistoric people in Ireland...
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Reform and Reckoning
In 1162 Ireland stood at a revealing midpoint between political consolidation and renewed instability. Muirchertach...
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Power Across the Shannon
An Uneasy High-Kingship Ireland entered 1129 under the formidable but incomplete ascendancy of Toirdelbach Ua...
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A Kingdom Changes Hands
The Shape of the Record The surviving Irish annals make 1064 unusually significant for Munster,...
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Derryvree Ice-Free Interval
“31,976 BCE” is a useful point on a modern chronological scale, but it is not...
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