Cork Reindeer Butchery
“31,995 BCE” is a modern calendar label, not a date at which archaeology can identify...
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Kings at Mellifont
Ireland entered the year with its political balance newly unsettled. Tairdelbach Ua Conchobair, the formidable...
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Rivers, Kings and Fire
The surviving record of 1089 is unusually vivid but far from complete. Irish annalists noted...
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A Year of Unsettled Succession
For Ireland, 1198 is a year best understood through a small number of carefully recorded...
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A Year of Rival Kings
The Ireland visible in the records for 1091 was not a single kingdom governed from...
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Victory at Mag Coba
The surviving annals make 1103 one of the better-documented years of early twelfth-century Ireland, although...
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Winter of Rival Kings
In 1115 Ireland was shaken by an exceptional winter, a renewed struggle for Munster and...
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Fractured Power
In 1196, Ireland was not a single political unit but a crowded field of regional...
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Synod of Ráith Bressail
Ireland in 1111 was neither a unified kingdom nor an isolated collection of local communities....
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Bridges and Primacy
Ireland in 1140 was shaped by two closely connected contests: the struggle of powerful kings...
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