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Doneraile’s Cave Archive

Doneraile’s Cave Archive

31,850 BCE is not a year that can be recovered from Ireland’s prehistoric record in...

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Reindeer by the Awbeg

Reindeer by the Awbeg

The label 31,863 BCE is a modern way of locating a point deep in the...

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Rivers, Kings and Fire

Rivers, Kings and Fire

The surviving record of 1089 is unusually vivid but far from complete. Irish annalists noted...

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Kings, Clerics and Fire

Kings, Clerics and Fire

The record of this year is unusually revealing, but it must be read with care....

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Conflict at Sacred Centres

Conflict at Sacred Centres

The surviving Irish annals present 1038 as a year of sharp local conflict rather than...

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Castlepook’s Hyena Galleries

Castlepook’s Hyena Galleries

The label 31,922 BCE gives a misleading impression of precision. No community in Ireland used...

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Derryvree’s Tundra Pools

Derryvree’s Tundra Pools

The label 31,908 BCE is a modern chronological convenience, not a date at which an...

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The Contest for Tara

Hostages And Kings

A Millennium in the Annals Ireland entered 1000 in the aftermath of a major military...

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Before the Ice Advance

Ruth Carden’s Cut Mark

A Calendar Label, Not an Event “31,934 BCE” is a modern way of naming a...

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Kingship Under Strain

Murchad’s Three-Night Kingship

Ireland’s annalists remembered this as a year of brief kingship, forced submission, regional bloodshed, religious...

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