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Doneraile’s Reindeer Landscape

Doneraile’s Reindeer Landscape

The label 31,847 BCE creates a useful point of orientation, but it must not be...

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Munster Under Pressure

Battle of Sliabh gCrot

The surviving Irish annals make 1058 unusually visible for an eleventh-century year. They record a...

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Cork Caves, Fermanagh Silts

Cork Caves, Fermanagh Silts

31,867 BCE is not a year that can be isolated in Ireland’s archaeological record. It...

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Hostages and Burned Churches

Hostages and Burned Churches

Ireland in 1049 was a country without a single uncontested ruler. Its provincial kings and...

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Wind and Exile

Wind and Exile

In 1191, Ireland’s surviving records preserve no single island-wide battle, royal settlement or great ecclesiastical...

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After Clontarf

Máel Sechnaill’s Leinster Hostages

The year 1015 in Ireland was the first full year after the catastrophe and opportunity...

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A Kingship Unravels

A Kingship Unravels

A Sudden Political Crisis Ireland entered 1114 without a single, uncontested high king. Muirchertach Ua...

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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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Raiders And Rivalries

Raiders And Rivalries

The surviving Irish annals make 1019 a year of sharp local violence, damaged churches and...

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Derryvree Between Two Tills

Derryvree Between Two Tills

“31,856 BCE” is a modern numerical label, not a date that can be recovered from...

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