Power Across Provinces
A Year Seen Through Annals The surviving Irish annals give 1110 an unusually clear, if...
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Hugh de Lacy’s Death
Ireland in 1186 was neither conquered nor politically united. Seventeen years after the first Anglo-Norman...
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Ice Age Threshold
Modern calendar-year precision cannot be recovered for 31,997 BCE. The label is a retrospective point...
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Doneraile’s Butchery Debate
The label 31,858 BCE is a modern convenience, not a year that anyone living in...
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Fires and Hostages
The year 1020 in Ireland is unusually vivid in the annalistic record because several notices...
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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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A Year of Upheaval
The surviving record of 1061 presents Ireland as a landscape of competing dynasties, vulnerable settlements...
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Kingship in Flux
The surviving Irish annals make 1046 unusually visible, but only in sharp fragments. They record...
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Kings, Clerics and Fire
The record of this year is unusually revealing, but it must be read with care....
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North Cork’s Single Incision
“31,880 BCE” is a modern label, not a date that anyone living in prehistoric Ireland...
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