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Before the Deep Freeze

Herb-Rich Tundra

31,962 BCE is a modern label, not a date at which an event can be...

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Kings, Croziers and Raids

Kings, Croziers and Raids

The surviving record of 1136 presents Ireland as a landscape of competing kingships, armed households,...

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Before the Ice Advance

IntCal Calibration Curve

“31,943 BCE” is a modern chronological label, not a date at which Irish prehistory can...

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Derryvree’s Freshwater Tundra

Derryvree’s Freshwater Tundra

31,814 BCE is not a date at which Irish archaeology can identify a particular occurrence....

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Chapel, Campaigns and Cattle

Chapel, Campaigns and Cattle

In 1134 Ireland’s political order remained fluid, competitive and intensely regional. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair was...

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Ireland Before the Ice

Atlantic Ice Sheet Growth

“31,991 BCE” is a modern way of labelling a point unimaginably far beyond written history....

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Before the Ice

Castlepook Cave Fauna

32,000 BCE is a modern chronological label, not a date that can be matched to...

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Shandon’s Red-Deer World

Shandon’s Red-Deer World

The label 31,882 BCE should not be treated as a year in which Irish archaeology...

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Castlepook’s Bone Chambers

Castlepook’s Bone Chambers

31,838 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s archaeological record 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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