A Femur in North Cork
The number 31,875 BCE gives an impression of precision that the evidence cannot sustain. No...
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Castlepook’s Glacial Fauna
31,969 BCE is not a date that can be recovered from the Irish archaeological record...
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Derryvree’s Buried Lakebed
The label 31,883 BCE offers a useful point on a modern timeline, but it cannot...
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Hostages and Burned Churches
Ireland in 1049 was a country without a single uncontested ruler. Its provincial kings and...
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A Kingdom Divided
Ireland entered the year under the authority of its most powerful king, Toirdelbach Ua Briain,...
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Murder of Conchobar Máenmaige
In 1189, Ireland’s political map was neither newly conquered nor securely divided. Anglo-Norman lordships held...
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Munster’s Shattered Balance
Ireland’s political order changed sharply during 1151. The year was dominated by a struggle for...
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Cork Cave-Bone Archive
The label 31,839 BCE cannot denote an event in Ireland in the way that a...
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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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The Blinding of Ruaidrí
The surviving annals present 1092 as a year in which a single act of dynastic...
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