Irish genealogy, the Glossary
Irish genealogy is the study of individuals and families who originated on the island of Ireland.[1]
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128 relations: Agnatic seniority, Alexander Bugge, Amhlaoibh Mór mac Fir Bhisigh, An Leabhar Muimhneach, Anglo-Irish people, Ádhamh Ó Cianáin, Ádhamh Cúisín, Ó Cléirigh, Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies, Ó Duibhgeannáin, Bard, Bermingham, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502, Book of Ballymote, Book of Cuanu, Book of Leinster, Book of the de Burgos, Burke's Landed Gentry, Burke's Peerage, Butler dynasty, Calendar of saints, Cashel, County Tipperary, Catherine Nash, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Charles O'Conor (historian), Chronicle of Ireland, Chronology, Clan Kelly, Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations, Cuimre na nGenealach, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, Diaspora, Doctrine, Dogma, Domnall Ó Cuindlis, Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Donnellan, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, Dublin, Early Irish law, Edward MacLysaght, Eochaid ua Flannacáin, Eoin MacNeill, Eugene O'Curry, F. X. Martin, FitzGerald dynasty, Fitzpatrick (surname), Flann Mainistrech, ... Expand index (78 more) »
Agnatic seniority
Agnatic seniority is a patrilineal principle of inheritance where the order of succession to the throne prefers the monarch's younger brother over the monarch's own sons.
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Alexander Bugge
Alexander Bugge (30 December 1870, Christiania – 24 December 1929, Copenhagen) was a Norwegian historian.
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Amhlaoibh Mór mac Fir Bhisigh
Amhlaoibh Mór mac Fir Bhisigh, Irish poet, cleric and historian, died 1138.
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An Leabhar Muimhneach
An Leabhar Muimhneach, also known as The Book of Munster, is an Irish genealogical manuscript.
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Anglo-Irish people
Anglo-Irish people denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.
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Ádhamh Ó Cianáin
Ádhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373) was an Irish historian and genealogist.
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Ádhamh Cúisín
Ádhamh Cúisín, Irish scribe and genealogist, fl.
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Ó Cléirigh
O'Cleary or O'Clery (Ó Cléirigh) is the surname of a Gaelic Irish family.
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Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies
The O'Clery Book of Genealogies, also known as Royal Irish Academy Ms.
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Ó Duibhgeannáin
The Ó Duibhgeannáin clan were a family of professional historians in medieval and early modern Ireland.
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Bard
In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.
Bermingham
Bermingham is a surname, and may refer to.
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Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 502
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 502 is a medieval Irish manuscript which currently resides in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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Book of Ballymote
The Book of Ballymote (RIA MS 23 P 12, 275 foll.), was written in 1390 or 1391 in or near the town of Ballymote, now in County Sligo, but then in the tuath of Corann.
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Book of Cuanu
The Book of Cuanu is a lost Irish Annal, which referred to events from the fifth to seventh centuries.
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Book of Leinster
The Book of Leinster (Lebor Laignech, LL) is a medieval Irish manuscript compiled and now kept in Trinity College Dublin, under the shelfmark MS H 2.18 (cat. 1339).
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Book of the de Burgos
The Book of the de Burgos or Book of the Burkes (Leabhar na Búrca; Liber Burgensis) is a late 16th-century Gaelic illuminated manuscript held by the Library of Trinity College Dublin as MS 1440, Historia et Genealogia Familiae de Burgo.
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Burke's Landed Gentry
Burke's Landed Gentry (originally titled Burke's Commoners) is a reference work listing families in Great Britain and Ireland who have owned rural estates of some size.
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Burke's Peerage
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher, considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom.
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Butler dynasty
Butler (de Buitléir) is the name of a noble family whose members were, for several centuries, prominent in the administration of the Lordship of Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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Calendar of saints
The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
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Cashel, County Tipperary
Cashel is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland.
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Catherine Nash
Catherine Nash is Professor of Human Geography at the University of London.
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Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh
Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (fl. 1624–1664) was an Irish historian and genealogist, known in English as Peregrine O'Clery.
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Charles O'Conor (historian)
Charles O'Conor, RIA (Cathal Ó Conchubhair; 1 January 1710 – 1 July 1791), also known as Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, was a member of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland and antiquarian who was enormously influential as a protagonist for the preservation of Irish culture and Irish mythology during the 18th century.
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Chronicle of Ireland
The Chronicle of Ireland (Croinic na hÉireann) is the modern name for a hypothesized collection of ecclesiastical annals recording events in Ireland from 432 to 911 AD.
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Chronology
Chronology (from Latin chronologia, from Ancient Greek χρόνος, chrónos, "time"; and -λογία, -logia) is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.
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Clan Kelly
Clan Kelly is a Scottish clan.
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Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations
The Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations (CIGO) is a representative group which lobbies for better and greater access to source material for those involved in the study of Irish genealogy.
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Cuimre na nGenealach
Cuimre na nGenealach ("binding of the genealogies") is an abridgment of Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh's Leabhar na nGenealach, written at his home in Lecan in Tír Fhíacrach Múaidhe, County Sligo in the spring and summer of 1666.
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Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Dáibhí Iarla Ó Cróinín (born 29 August 1954) is an Irish historian and authority on Hiberno-Latin texts, noted for his significant mid-1980s discovery in a manuscript in Padua of the "lost" Irish 84-year Easter table.
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Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig
Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, M.A., is the former Chief Placenames Officer in the Placenames Branch in the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (An Roinn Gnóthaí Pobail, Comhionannais agus Gaeltachta) in Ireland.
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Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC or, informally, ASNaC) is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge, and focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literatures of the various peoples who inhabited Britain, Ireland and the extended Scandinavian world in the early Middle Ages (5th century to 12th century).
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Diaspora
A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
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Doctrine
Doctrine (from doctrina, meaning "teaching, instruction") is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the essence of teachings in a given branch of knowledge or in a belief system.
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Dogma
Dogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform.
Domnall Ó Cuindlis
Domnall Ó Cuindlis (also rendered Domhnall Ó Coinleisc; died 1342) was an Irish historian of the Ó Cuindlis family of brehons and scholars.
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Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Donnchadh Ó Corráin (28 February 1942 – 25 October 2017) was an Irish historian and Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Cork.
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Donnellan
Donnellan is an Irish surname and refers to the clan name Ó Domhnalláin or O'Donnellan.
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Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, also known as Dubhaltach Óg mac Giolla Íosa Mór mac Dubhaltach Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh, Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius (fl. 1643 – January 1671) was an Irish scribe, translator, historian and genealogist.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.
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Early Irish law
Early Irish law, also called Brehon law (from the old Irish word breithim meaning judge), comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland.
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Edward MacLysaght
Edgeworth Lysaght, later Edward Anthony Edgeworth Lysaght, and from 1920 Edward MacLysaght (Éamonn Mac Giolla Iasachta; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986) was a genealogist of twentieth-century Ireland.
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Eochaid ua Flannacáin
Eochaid ua Flannacáin (935–1004) was an Irish cleric and poet.
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Eoin MacNeill
Eoin MacNeill (Eoin Mac Néill; born John McNeill; 15 May 1867 – 15 October 1945) was an Irish scholar, Irish language enthusiast, Gaelic revivalist, nationalist and politician who served as Minister for Education from 1922 to 1925, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1921 to 1922, Minister for Industries 1919 to 1921 and Minister for Finance January 1919 to April 1919.
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Eugene O'Curry
Eugene O'Curry (Eoghan Ó Comhraí or Eoghan Ó Comhraidhe, 20 November 179430 July 1862) was an Irish philologist and antiquary.
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F. X. Martin
Francis Xavier Martin, OSA (Proinsias Xavier Ó Máirtín; 2 October 1922 – 13 February 2000) was an Irish cleric, historian and activist.
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FitzGerald dynasty
The FitzGerald dynasty is a Hiberno-Norman noble and aristocratic dynasty, originally of Cambro-Norman and Anglo-Norman origin.
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Fitzpatrick (surname)
Fitzpatrick is an Irish surname that most commonly arose as an anglicised version of the Irish patronymic surname Mac Giolla PhádraigKay Muhr, Liam Ó hAisibéil, in The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland, Oxford University Press, 2021 "Son of the Devotee of (St.) Patrick".
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Flann Mainistrech
Flann Mainistrech (died 25 November 1056) was an Irish poet and historian.
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Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.
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Four Courts Press
Four Courts Press is an independent Irish academic publishing house, with its office at Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
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Francis John Byrne
Francis John Byrne (1934 – 30 December 2017) was an Irish historian.
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Gaels
The Gaels (Na Gaeil; Na Gàidheil; Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.
Galway
Galway (Gaillimh) is a city in (and the county town of) County Galway.
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Genealogical Office
The Genealogical Office is an office of the Government of Ireland containing genealogical records.
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Genealogical Society of Ireland
The Genealogical Society of Ireland (Cumann Geinealais na hÉireann) is a voluntary non-governmental organisation promoting the study of genealogy, heraldry, vexillology and social history in Ireland and amongst the Irish diaspora as open access educational leisure pursuits available to all.
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Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.
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Genetic history of Europe
The genetic history of Europe includes information around the formation, ethnogenesis, and other DNA-specific information about populations indigenous, or living in Europe.
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Genetic history of the British Isles
The genetic history of the British Isles is the subject of research within the larger field of human population genetics.
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Geoffrey Keating
Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn; –) was an Irish historian.
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Gilla Cómáin mac Gilla Samthainde
Gilla Cóemáin mac Gilla Samthainde was a Medieval Irish poet (fl. 1072).
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Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin
Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin (anglicised as Christian Malone; died 1127) was an Irish historian and Abbot of Clonmacnoise.
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Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn
Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn (1102 – 17 December 1160) was an Irish poet, historian, and cleric.
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Giolla Íosa Mac Fir Bisigh
Gilla Isa Mac Fir Bisigh (died 1301) was an Irish historian, poet, mathematician and astronomer.
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Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fir Bhisigh
Gilla Íosa Mor mac Donnchadh MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1390 – 1418) was a historian, scribe and poet of the learned Clan MacFhirbhisigh based at Lackan in Tír Fhíacrach, now part of County Sligo.
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Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín
Giolla na Naomh O hUidhrin, Irish historian and poet, died 1420.
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Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin
Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagáin, Irish scribe and historian, died c. 1443.
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Great Book of Lecan
The Great Book of Lecan or simply Book of Lecan (Leabhar (Mór) Leacáin) (RIA, 23 P 2) is a late-medieval Irish manuscript written between 1397 and 1418 in Castle Forbes, Lecan (Lackan, Leckan; Irish Leacán), in the territory of Tír Fhíacrach, near modern Enniscrone, County Sligo.
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Heredity
Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.
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House of Burgh
The House of Burgh or Burke (de Búrca; de Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty which played a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland, held the earldoms of Kent, Ulster, Clanricarde, and Mayo at various times, and provided queens consort of Scotland and Thomond and Kings of England via a matrilineal line.
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Inauguration
In government and politics, inauguration is the process of swearing a person into office and thus making that person the incumbent.
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
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Irish annals
A number of Irish annals, of which the earliest was the Chronicle of Ireland, were compiled up to and shortly after the end of the 17th century.
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Irish medical families
Irish medical families were hereditary practitioners of professional medicine in Gaelic Ireland, between 1100 and 1700.
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Jacobitism
Jacobitism was a political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne.
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James Carney (scholar)
James Patrick Carney (17 May 1914 – 7 July 1989) was a noted Irish Celtic scholar.
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James Terry (officer of arms)
James Terry (Limerick, Ireland, 26 May 1660 - Paris, France 1725) was an Irish officer of arms who remained faithful to the Jacobite kings of Britain after their escape to the European continent.
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James Ware (historian)
Sir James Ware (26 November 1594 – 1 December 1666) was an Anglo-Irish historian.
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John Burke (genealogist)
John Burke (12 November 1786 – 27 March 1848)Burke's Peerage website, Company section, date accessed: 16 December 2020There is a discrepancy in the date of birth between the and the "John Burke" listing in the Dictionary of National Biography from 1886.
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John Carey (Celticist)
John Carey is an American philologist, professor, and scholar of Celtic studies, specialising in subjects of early Irish and Welsh literature, religion, and mythology.
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John O'Donovan (scholar)
John O'Donovan (Seán Ó Donnabháin; 25 July 1806 – 10 December 1861), from Atateemore, in the parish of Kilcolumb, County Kilkenny, and educated at Hunt's Academy, Waterford, was an Irish language scholar from Ireland.
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John O'Hart
John O'Hart (1824–1902) was an Irish historian and genealogist.
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Kathleen Hughes (historian)
Kathleen Winifred Hughes (8 September 1926 in Middlesbrough – 20 April 1977) was an English historian, her specialisation was Irish ecclesiastical history, particularly the early Christian Church in Ireland.
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Kavanagh (surname)
Kavanagh or Kavanaugh is a surname of Irish origin, Caomhánach in Irish.
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Kenneth Nicholls
Kenneth W. Nicholls, Irish academic and historian, is an Irish historian, notable for his work on the late medieval and early modern period; he was the subject of a festschrift in 2014.
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Lúcás Ó Dalláin
Lúcás Ó Dalláin (fl. 14th century) was an Irish historian.
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Leabhar Adhamh Ó Cianáin
Leabhar Adhamh Ó Cianáin or The Book of Adhamh Ó Cianáin, now G 2-3 NLI (National Library of Ireland), is a book written in or about the 1340s by Adhamh Ó Cianáin by and for himself, and out of the book of his teacher, Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin.
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Leabhar Clainne Suibhne
Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne ("The Book of Clan Sweeney") is a 16th-century Donegal manuscript written in Irish.
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Leabhar Cloinne Maoil Ruanaidh
Leabhar Cloinne Maoil Ruanaidh, or the Book of Mac Dermot, is the title given by Nollaig Ó Muraíle to "a collection of genealogies sometimes referred to as 'The Book of Mac Dermot'..." which now forms the fourth and most significant part - 'd' - of RIA MS 539.
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Leabhar na nGenealach
Leabhar na nGenealach ("Book of Genealogies") is a massive genealogical collection written mainly in the years 1649 to 1650, at the college-house of St. Nicholas' Collegiate Church, Galway, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh.
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Leabhar Ua Maine
Leabhar Ua Maine (also Leabhar Uí Dubhagáin, The Book of Hy-Many and RIA MS D ii 1) is an Irish genealogical compilation, created c. 1392–94.
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Lebor Gabála Érenn
Lebor Gabála Érenn (literally "The Book of the Taking of Ireland"; Modern Irish spelling: Leabhar Gabhála Éireann, known in English as The Book of Invasions) is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages.
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Mac an Bhaird
The Mac an Bháird family (Clann an Bháird) was one of the learned families of late medieval Ireland.
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Mac Aodhagáin
Mac Aodhagáin (English: Egan or Keegan), is an Irish Gaelic clan of Brehons who were hereditary lawyers - firstly to the Ó Conchobhair Kings of Connacht, and later to the Burkes of Clanricarde.
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Mac Fhirbhisigh
MacFirbis (Mac Fhirbhisigh), also known as Forbes, was the surname of a family of Irish hereditary historians based for much of their known history at Lecan, Tireragh (now Lackan, Kilglass parish, County Sligo).
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MacCarthy dynasty
MacCarthy (Mac Cárthaigh), also spelled Macarthy, McCarthy or McCarty, is an Irish clan originating from Munster, an area they ruled during the Middle Ages.
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Mairéad Dunlevy
Mairéad Dunlevy (31 December 1941 – 18 March 2008), was a museum curator and Irish costume expert.
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Martin J. Blake
Martin Joseph Blake (born c. 1853) was an Irish historian who died around 1930.
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Mícheál Ó Cléirigh
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, sometimes known as Michael O'Clery, was an Irish chronicler, scribe and antiquary and chief author of the Annals of the Four Masters, assisted by Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, and Peregrinus Ó Duibhgeannain.
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Míl Espáine
In Irish origin myths, Míl Espáine or Míl Espáne (later Latinized as Milesius) is the mythical ancestor of the final inhabitants of Ireland, the "sons of Míl" or Milesians, who represent the vast majority of the Irish Gaels.
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McLoughlin
McLoughlin is an Irish surname.
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Muintir Murchada
Muintir Murchada was the name of an Irish territory which derived its name from the ruling dynasty, who were in turn a branch of the Uí Briúin.
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Murchadh Ó Cuindlis
Murchadh Riabhach Ó Cuindlis was an Irish scribe of the Ó Cuindlis family of brehons and scholars.
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Nollaig Ó Muraíle
Nollaig Ó Muraíle is an Irish scholar.
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Norroy and Ulster King of Arms
Norroy and Ulster King of Arms is the provincial King of Arms at the College of Arms with jurisdiction over England north of the Trent and Northern Ireland.
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Norse–Gaels
The Norse–Gaels (Gall-Goídil; Gall-Ghaeil; Gall-Ghàidheil, 'foreigner-Gaels') were a people of mixed Gaelic and Norse ancestry and culture.
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Norsemen
The Norsemen (or Norse people) were a North Germanic linguistic group of the Early Middle Ages, during which they spoke the Old Norse language.
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O'Brien dynasty
The O'Brien dynasty (Ua Briain; Ó Briain; genitive Uí Bhriain) was an Irish Clan and noble house of Munster, founded in the 10th century by Brian Boru of the Dál gCais (Dalcassians).
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O'Conor dynasty
The O'Conor dynasty (Middle Irish: Ó Conchobhair; Modern Ó Conchúir) are an Irish noble dynasty and formerly one of the most influential and distinguished royal dynasties in Ireland.
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O'Donnell dynasty
The O'Donnell dynasty (Ó Dónaill or Ó Domhnaill, Ó Doṁnaill or Ua Domaill; meaning "descendant of Dónal") were the dominant Irish clan of the kingdom of Tyrconnell in Ulster in the north of medieval and early modern Ireland.
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O'Neill dynasty
The O'Neill dynasty (Irish: Ó Néill) are a lineage of Irish Gaelic origin that held prominent positions and titles in Ireland and elsewhere.
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Officer of arms
An officer of arms is a person appointed by a sovereign or state with authority to perform one or more of the following functions.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
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Paul Walsh (priest)
Paul Walsh (An tAthair Pól Breathnach; 19 June 1885 – 18 June 1941) was an Irish priest and historian.
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Plunkett
Plunkett is an Irish surname derived from the Gaelic Ó Pluingceid.
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Psalter
A psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms, often with other devotional material bound in as well, such as a liturgical calendar and litany of the Saints.
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Roderick O'Flaherty
Roderick O'Flaherty (Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh; 1629–1718 or 1716) was an Irish historian.
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Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin
Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372) was an Irish Gaelic poet.
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Senchus fer n-Alban
The Senchus fer n-Alban (The History of the men of Scotland) is an Old Irish medieval text believed to have been compiled in the 10th century.
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Skibbereen
Skibbereen is a town in County Cork, Ireland.
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T. F. O'Rahilly
Thomas Francis O'Rahilly (Tomás Ó Rathile; 11 November 1882 – 16 November 1953)Ó Sé, Diarmuid.
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Tanaide Mor mac Dúinnín Ó Maolconaire
Tanaide Mor mac Dúinnín Ó Maolconaire was a member of the Ó Maolconaire family of Connacht, who served as historians and poets to the Síol Muireadaigh, and their rulers, the Ó Conchubhair Kings of Connacht.
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Theodore William Moody
Theodore William Moody (26 November 1907 – 11 February 1984) was a historian from Belfast, Ireland.
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Thomas Charles-Edwards
Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards (born 11 November 1943) is an emeritus academic at the University of Oxford.
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Who Do You Think You Are? (Irish TV series)
Who Do You Think You Are? is an Irish genealogy documentary series that first aired on RTÉ One in 2008.
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William Betham (1779–1853)
Sir William Betham (1779–1853) was an English-born Irish herald and antiquarian who held the office of Ulster King of Arms from 1820 until his death in 1853.
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Zenith
The zenith is an imaginary point directly "above" a particular location, on the celestial sphere.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_genealogy
Also known as Gaelic genealogy, Irish genealogies.
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