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The Great Snow

The Great Snow

The surviving Irish chronicles remember this year above all for exceptional cold, political violence and...

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Maguirebridge’s Tundra Mosses

Maguirebridge’s Tundra Mosses

The label 31,823 BCE gives a modern calendar address to a period that had no...

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Greenagho’s Tundra Basin

Greenagho’s Tundra Basin

The label 31,881 BCE is a modern way of locating a point far beyond written...

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Cashel and Aileach

Cashel and Aileach

A Kingdom Without One King Ireland in 1101 was dominated by a contest between two...

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Celtic Shelf Horizons

Celtic Shelf Horizons

“31,869 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date that can be identified in...

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Brian At Armagh

Brian At Armagh

A Year On Campaign The year 1005 is one of the clearest moments in the...

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A Fractured Lordship

Siege of Ardnurcher

In 1207 Ireland was not a single political unit but a crowded field of rival...

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Power and Reform

Power and Reform

Ireland in 1139 was governed not as a single state but through an unstable hierarchy...

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Before the Great Ice

Ulster Pollen And Beetles

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for prehistoric Ireland at 31,938 BCE. The label is...

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Power in Transition

Power in Transition

Ireland entered 1117 amid political fragmentation, dynastic rivalry and the after-effects of a severe crisis...

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