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The Doneraile Bone Mark

The Doneraile Bone Mark

The label 31,817 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date that anybody in...

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A Kingdom Recast

Henry II’s Dublin Court

In 1172 Ireland stood at the centre of a political experiment whose consequences were not...

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The Derryvree Drumlin Archive

The Derryvree Drumlin Archive

A Date Beyond Annual History 31,891 BCE is not a year that can be recovered...

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Derryvree’s Tundra Waters

Derryvree’s Tundra Waters

Modern calendar-year precision cannot responsibly be projected onto Ireland in 31,812 BCE. The label is...

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Connacht Under Pressure

Connacht Under Pressure

The surviving Irish annals present 1062 as a year of fractured authority rather than island-wide...

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Before the Great Ice

Carden’s Castlepook Interpretation

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland at 31,925 BCE. The label is a...

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Doneraile’s Incised Reindeer Femur

Doneraile’s Incised Reindeer Femur

Modern calendar-year precision is not available for Ireland in 31,832 BCE. Nobody on the island...

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Ice and Uncertainty

Ice and Uncertainty

The label 31,947 BCE is useful as a point on a modern timeline, but it...

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War Before Clontarf

War Before Clontarf

Reading A Troubled Year The year 1013 in Ireland is best understood as a year...

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Contest for Connacht

Contest for Connacht

In 1203, Ireland’s political map was neither simply Gaelic nor simply Anglo-Norman. Kings, provincial dynasties,...

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