Genealogy was cultivated since at least the start of the early Irish historic era. Upon inauguration, Bards and poets are believed to have recited the ancestry of an inaugurated king to emphasise his hereditary right to rule. With the transition to written culture, oral history was preserved in the monastic settlements. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín believed that Gaelic genealogies came to be written down with or soon after the practise of annalistic records, annals been kept by monks to determine the yearly chronology of feast days (see Irish annals).[citation needed]
Genealogy had at first served a purely serious purpose in determining the legal rights of related individuals to land and goods. Under Fenechas, ownership of land was determined by Agnatic succession, female ownership being severely limited.[citation needed]
The transmission of this body of lore (seanchas) has resulted in detailed knowledge on the origins and history of many of the tribes and families of Ireland. An anglicised tradition has continued since the 17th-century, translating many of the scripts into English. The practise of genealogy continues to be of importance among the Irish and its diaspora. Historians (such as Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and Nollaig Ó Muraíle) consider the Irish genealogical tradition to have the largest national corpus in Europe.[citation needed]
Irish Genealogical Doctrine
Over the course of several centuries, an evolving genealogicaldogma created by the bardic viewed all Irish as descendants of Míl Espáine. This ignored variant traditions, including those recorded in their own works. The reasons behind the doctrine's adoption is rooted in the policies of dynastic and political propaganda.[citation needed]
It was enhanced and embedded in the tradition by successive generations of historians such as Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (d.1372), Gilla Íosa MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418) and Flann Mac Aodhagáin (alive 1640). By 1600 it was refined to the point that certain Anglo-Irish families were given spurious Gaelic ancestors and origin legends, such was their immersion in Gaelic culture.
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De Praesulibus Hiberniae Commentarius, Sir James Ware, 1665
Ogygia: seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia & etc. ..., Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, 1685 (published and translated into English by Rev. James Hely, 1783)
A dissertation on the origin and antiquities of the antient Scots, and notes, critical and explanatory, on Mr. O'Flaherty's text, Charles O'Conor (historian), included in The Ogygia vindicated: against the objections of Sir George Mackenzie, king's advocate for Scotland in the reign of king James II, by Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, 1775
On the Heathen State and Topography of Ancient Ireland, Charles O'Conor, 1783
Lecturers on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Eugene O'Curry, 1861, a collection of 21 lectures
Placenames and early settlement in county Donegal, Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig, in Donegal: History and Society, edited by William Nolan, Liam Ronayne and Mairéad Dunlevy. Dublin, 1996. pp. 149–182.
A New History of Ireland, volume one, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Dublin, 2006
References
Notes
^Alexander Bugge (ed. & tr.), of Duald Mac Firbis, On the Fomorians and the Norsemen. Christiania: J. Chr. Gundersens Bogtrykkeri. 1905. See Bugge's introduction.
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Annála Ríoghachta Éireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616, compiled 1628–1635, Mícheál Ó Cléirighet al (edited and translated by John O'Donovan, 1856)
Seán Ó Donnabháin, An Cúigiú Máistir, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in Scoláirí Gaeilge: Léchtaí Cholm Cille XXVII, Eag. R. Ó hUiginn. Maigh Nuad, 1997, Lch. 11–82
Irish genealogical collections: the Scottish dimension, Nollaig Ó Muraíle, in International Congress of Celtic Studies 10 (1995), pp. 251–264, 1999
Iris Mhuintir Uì Dhonnabháin, O'Donovan History 2000, Published by the O'Donovan Clan, Skibbereen, Ireland. Article by Michael R. O'Donovan
The Tribes of Galway, Adrian James Martyn, Galway, 2001
Royal Roots, Republican Inheritance – The Survival of the Office of Arms, Susan Hood, Dublin, 2002
"They’re family!": cultural geographies of relatedness in popular genealogy, Catherine Nash, in Sara Armed, Anne-Marie Fortier and Mimi Sheller eds. Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, Berg, Oxford and New York, 179–203, 2003
Genetic kinship, Cultural Studies, 18(1): 1–34, Catherine Nash, 2004.
Irish Origins, Celtic Origins: Population Genetics, Catherine Nash, Cultural Politics, Irish Studies Review, 14 (1): 11–37, 2006
Of Irish descent: origin stories, genealogy, & the politics of belonging, Catherine Nash, Syracuse University Press, 2008. ISBN978-0-8156-3159-0
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External links
The Importance of Genealogy in Gaelic Society
Irish surnames and Y-DNA at AncestralJourneys.org
O'Connor, Roderic, A Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the O'Connors, Kings of Connaught, and their Descendants. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill. 1861.
O'Donovan, John and the Rt. Hon. Charles Owen O'Conor Don, The O'Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co. 1891.
An Irish Arms Crisis – Critical essay on status of the Office of the Chief Herald.
Full text and explanatory memorandum of Genealogy & Heraldry Bill, 2006.
The Fitzpatrick – Mac Giolla Phádraig Clan Society
January 31, 2023
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Irish Genealogical Doctrine 3 Genealogical compilations 4 Lost works 5 Organisations 6 Burke s Peerage and Landed Gentry 7 21st century Irish genealogy 8 Notable Irish genealogists 9 Further reading 10 References 10 1 Notes 10 2 Sources 11 External linksOrigins EditThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Genealogy was cultivated since at least the start of the early Irish historic era Upon inauguration Bards and poets are believed to have recited the ancestry of an inaugurated king to emphasise his hereditary right to rule With the transition to written culture oral history was preserved in the monastic settlements Daibhi o Croinin believed that Gaelic genealogies came to be written down with or soon after the practise of annalistic records annals been kept by monks to determine the yearly chronology of feast days see Irish annals citation needed Its cultivation reached a height during the Late Medieval Era with works such as Leabhar Ua Maine Senchus fer n Alban Book of Ballymote De Shil Chonairi Moir Book of Leinster Leabhar Cloinne Maoil Ruanaidh and the o Cleirigh Book of Genealogies This tradition of scholarship reached its zenith with Leabhar na nGenealach composed mainly between 1649 1650 in Galway citation needed Genealogy had at first served a purely serious purpose in determining the legal rights of related individuals to land and goods Under Fenechas ownership of land was determined by Agnatic succession female ownership being severely limited citation needed Over time genealogy was pursued for its own merits by the Gaelic learned classes From c 1100 various families such as o Cleirigh Mac Fhirbhisigh o Duibhgeannain Mac Aodhagain and Mac an Bhaird became professional historians They were often employed by ruling families the most important of whom included o Conchobhair o Neill o Domhnaill o Cellaigh Mac Murchadha Caomhanach Mac Carthaigh o Briain o Mael Sechlainn Mac Giolla Padraig It also became pervasive among the Anglo Irish with the recording of the family trees of FitzGerald Butler Burke Plunkett Nugent Bermingham and others citation needed Some clans such as Mac Fhirbhisigh and o Duibhgeannain were originally hereditary ecclesiastical families while others o Cleirigh Mac an Bhaird o Domhnallain were dispossessed royalty who were forced to find another profession see also Irish medical families The transmission of this body of lore seanchas has resulted in detailed knowledge on the origins and history of many of the tribes and families of Ireland An anglicised tradition has continued since the 17th century translating many of the scripts into English The practise of genealogy continues to be of importance among the Irish and its diaspora Historians such as Daibhi o Croinin and Nollaig o Muraile consider the Irish genealogical tradition to have the largest national corpus in Europe citation needed Irish Genealogical Doctrine EditOver the course of several centuries an evolving genealogical dogma created by the bardic viewed all Irish as descendants of Mil Espaine This ignored variant traditions including those recorded in their own works The reasons behind the doctrine s adoption is rooted in the policies of dynastic and political propaganda citation needed The doctrine dates from the 10th 12th centuries as demonstrated in the works of Eochaid ua Flainn 936 1004 Flann Mainistrech died 25 November 1056 Tanaide died c 1075 and Gilla Comain mac Gilla Samthainde fl 1072 Many of their compositions were incorporated into the compendium Lebor Gabala Erenn citation needed It was enhanced and embedded in the tradition by successive generations of historians such as Sean Mor o Dubhagain d 1372 Gilla Iosa MacFhirbhisigh fl 1390 1418 and Flann Mac Aodhagain alive 1640 By 1600 it was refined to the point that certain Anglo Irish families were given spurious Gaelic ancestors and origin legends such was their immersion in Gaelic culture The first Irish historian who questioned the reliability of such accounts was Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh murdered 1671 whose massive Leabhar na nGenealach included disparate and variant recensions Unlike Geoffrey Keating Foras Feasa ar Eirinn he did not attempt to synthesise the material into a unified whole instead recording and transmitting it unaltered However historians as late as such as Eugene O Curry 1794 1862 and John O Donovan 1806 1861 sometimes accepted the doctrine and a nationalistic interpretation of Irish history uncritically During the 20th century the doctrine was reinterpreted by the work of historians such as Eoin MacNeill T F O Rahilly Francis John Byrne Kathleen Hughes historian and Kenneth Nicholls citation needed See also O Rahilly s historical model Genetic history of Europe Genetic history of the British Isles Genealogical compilations EditThe following are manuscripts consisting of genealogies in whole or part Leabhar Adhamh o Cianain Book of Ballymote The Book of the Burkes Leabhar Cloinne Maoil Ruanaidh Crichaireacht cinedach nduchasa Muintiri Murchada Cuimre na nGenealach Leabhar na nGenealach Great Book of Lecan An Leabhar Muimhneach o Cleirigh Book of Genealogies Leabhar Ua Maine Rawlinson B 502 Senchus fer n Alban Leabhar Clainne Suibhne Book of Leinster Book of Lecan MS H 2 7 MS Laud 610Lost works EditThis section contains embedded lists that may be poorly defined unverified or indiscriminate Please help to clean it up to meet Wikipedia s quality standards Where appropriate incorporate items into the main body of the article October 2020 Psalter of Cashel Book of Cuanu Book of Dub Da Leithe Leabhar Airis Cloinne Fir Bhisigh Leabhar Airisen Ghiolla Iosa Mhec Fhirbhisigh Synchronisms of Flann Mainstreach The Chronicle of Ireland Norse and Norse Gaelic pedigrees from the Great Book of Lecan section 1 Organisations EditIrish Genealogical Office Genealogical Society of Ireland Council of Irish Genealogical OrganisationsBurke s Peerage and Landed Gentry EditBurke s Peerage Burke s Landed Gentry21st century Irish genealogy EditWho Do You Think You Are Irish TV series Notable Irish genealogists EditEochaid ua Flannacain 936 1004 Flann Mainistrech died 1056 Gilla Comain mac Gilla Samthainde fl 1072 Gilla Crist Ua Mael Eoin died 1127 Amhlaoibh Mor mac Fir Bhisigh died 1138 Gilla na Naemh Ua Duinn died 1160 Giolla Iosa Mac Fir Bisigh died 1301 Tanaide Mor mac Duinnin o Maolconaire died 1310 Domnall o Cuindlis died 1342 Lucas o Dallain fl 14th century Sean Mor o Dubhagain died 1372 Adhamh o Cianain died 1373 Adhamh Cuisin fl c 1400 Murchadh o Cuindlis fl 1398 1411 Giolla Iosa Mor Mac Fhirbhisigh died 1418 Giolla na Naomh o hUidhrin died 1420 Giolla na Naomh Mac Aodhagain died c 1443 Geoffrey Keating 1569 1644 Cu Choigcriche o Cleirigh fl 1624 1664 Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh compiler of Leabhar na nGenealach died 1671 James Terry Jacobite Officer of Arms died 1725 Charles O Conor historian 1710 1791 John Burke creator of Burke s Peerage 1787 1848 William Betham Ulster King of Arms died 1853 John O Donovan scholar 1806 1861 John O Hart popular genealogical writer 1824 1902 Edward MacLysaght Chief Herald died 1984 Nollaig o Muraile academic historian born 1948Further reading EditDe Praesulibus Hiberniae Commentarius Sir James Ware 1665 Ogygia seu Rerum Hibernicarum Chronologia amp etc Ruaidhri o Flaithbheartaigh 1685 published and translated into English by Rev James Hely 1783 A dissertation on the origin and antiquities of the antient Scots and notes critical and explanatory on Mr O Flaherty s text Charles O Conor historian included in The Ogygia vindicated against the objections of Sir George Mackenzie king s advocate for Scotland in the reign of king James II by Ruaidhri o Flaithbheartaigh 1775 On the Heathen State and Topography of Ancient Ireland Charles O Conor 1783 Lecturers on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History Eugene O Curry 1861 a collection of 21 lectures Ireland before the Normans Donnchadh o Corrain Dublin 1972 A New History of Ireland Volume IX Maps Genealogies Lists A Companion to Irish History Part II Maps Genealogies Lists Vol 9 ed Theodore William Moody F X Martin and Francis John Byrne 1984 The Irish genealogies as an onomastic source Nollaig o Muraile in Nomina No 16 pp 23 47 1992 The Irish Genealogies Irish History s Poor Relation Nollaig o Muraile London Irish Texts Society 2016 ISBN 9780957566187 Placenames and early settlement in county Donegal Donall Mac Giolla Easpaig in Donegal History and Society edited by William Nolan Liam Ronayne and Mairead Dunlevy Dublin 1996 pp 149 182 Irish Kings and High Kings 3rd revised edition Dublin Four Courts Press 2001 ISBN 978 1 85182 196 9 A New History of Ireland volume one Daibhi o Croinin Dublin 2006References EditNotes Edit Alexander Bugge ed amp tr of Duald Mac Firbis On the Fomorians and the Norsemen Christiania J Chr Gundersens Bogtrykkeri 1905 See Bugge s introduction Sources Edit Annala Rioghachta Eireann Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters from the earliest period to the year 1616 compiled 1628 1635 Micheal o Cleirigh et al edited and translated by John O Donovan 1856 Leabhar na nGenealach Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh compiled mainly 1649 1660 published 2004 2005 Blake Family Records Martin J Blake volume one 1902 and volume two 1905 Leabhar Chlainne Suibhne An Account of the Mac Sweeney Families of Ireland with Pedigrees Paul Walsh priest 1920 The Learned Family of O Duigenan Paul Walsh Irish Eccleastical Record 1921 Topographical Poems by Sean Mor o Dubhagain and Giolla na Naomh o hUuidrain James Carney scholar ed 1943 Poems on the Butlers of Ormond Cahir and Dunboyne AD 1400 1650 James Carney scholar editor 1945 A Genealogical History of the O Reillys from Irish of Eoghan o Raghallaigh James Carney scholar editor 1950 Poems on the O Reillys James Carney scholar editor 1970 The Surnames of Ireland Edward MacLysaght 1978 A British Myth of Origins John Carey Celticist in History of Religions 31 pp 24 38 1991 Early Irish and Welsh Kinship Thomas Charles Edwards Oxford 1993 Sean o Donnabhain An Cuigiu Maistir Nollaig o Muraile in Scolairi Gaeilge Lechtai Cholm Cille XXVII Eag R o hUiginn Maigh Nuad 1997 Lch 11 82 Irish genealogical collections the Scottish dimension Nollaig o Muraile in International Congress of Celtic Studies 10 1995 pp 251 264 1999 Iris Mhuintir Ui Dhonnabhain O Donovan History 2000 Published by the O Donovan Clan Skibbereen Ireland Article by Michael R O Donovan The Tribes of Galway Adrian James Martyn Galway 2001 Royal Roots Republican Inheritance The Survival of the Office of Arms Susan Hood Dublin 2002 They re family cultural geographies of relatedness in popular genealogy Catherine Nash in Sara Armed Anne Marie Fortier and Mimi Sheller eds Uprootings Regroundings Questions of Home and Migration Berg Oxford and New York 179 203 2003 Leabhar na nGenealach Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh 2003 2004 Genetic kinship Cultural Studies 18 1 1 34 Catherine Nash 2004 Irish Origins Celtic Origins Population Genetics Catherine Nash Cultural Politics Irish Studies Review 14 1 11 37 2006 Of Irish descent origin stories genealogy amp the politics of belonging Catherine Nash Syracuse University Press 2008 ISBN 978 0 8156 3159 0This article needs additional or more specific categories Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles May 2022 External links EditThe Importance of Genealogy in Gaelic Society Irish surnames and Y DNA at AncestralJourneys org https web archive org web 20071114223625 http www peterowen com pages nonfic Guinness htm O Connor Roderic A Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the O Connors Kings of Connaught and their Descendants Dublin McGlashan amp Gill 1861 O Donovan John and the Rt Hon Charles Owen O Conor Don The O Conors of Connaught An Historical Memoir Dublin 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