Castlepook’s Fading Fauna
The numbered year 31,854 BCE cannot be treated as a date at which a recorded...
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Greenagho Ice-Free Deposits
The label 31,946 BCE creates a false impression of precision. No event in Ireland can...
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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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Mac Lochlainn at Fordruim
Ireland in 1153 was dominated by a contest for supremacy between Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair, the...
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Mellifont and Rival Kings
The surviving record of 1142 is unusually revealing. Irish annalists describe royal deaths, disputed successions,...
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The Castlepook Reindeer Question
The date conventionally written as 31,876 BCE creates an impression of precision that the evidence...
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Butchery Marks at Castlepook
A Date Beyond Calendars 31,985 BCE is a useful modern label, not a date that...
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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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Máel Sechnaill’s Leinster Hostages
The year 1015 in Ireland was the first full year after the catastrophe and opportunity...
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Kings, Relics and Winter
Ireland in 1093 was dominated by a contest for power rather than by any universally...
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