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Before the Ice Advance

Southern Irish Raised Beaches

The label 31,952 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a year that anyone living...

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Before the Ice

Castlepook’s Pleistocene Fauna

“31,990 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date at which an Irish event...

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Succession and Pressure

Succession and Pressure

In 1194, Ireland’s political map was neither settled nor neatly divided between “Irish” and “Norman”...

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Fleets, Hostages and Harvest

Fleets, Hostages and Harvest

Ireland in 1130 was dominated by ambitious provincial kings, shifting alliances and military expeditions conducted...

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A Kingdom Contested

Adrian IV’s Laudabiliter

Ireland in 1155 was governed not as a single, centrally administered realm but through a...

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A Kingdom Recast

Gofraid Expelled from Dublin

The year was a turning point in the recovery of Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of...

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Kingship and Sacred Guarantees

Kingship and Sacred Guarantees

Ireland in 1143 was dominated by the ambitions of Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht...

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Hostages and Burning

Hostages and Burning

The surviving annals portray 1149 as a year of hard campaigning, hostage-taking and destructive raiding....

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Castlepook’s Wandering Herds

Castlepook’s Wandering Herds

31,888 BCE is not a year to which an Irish event can responsibly be assigned....

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Before the Deep Freeze

Courtmacsherry Coastal Deposits

“31,940 BCE” is a modern label, not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s...

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