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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition [Carroll Lecture 1992]”, Peritia 12 (1998): 177–208.

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Ó Corráin (Donnchadh)

Article

“Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition”

[additional details: Carroll Lecture 1992]

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Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 12 (1998)

Peritia 12 (1998).

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12

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177–208

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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition [Carroll lecture 1992]”, Chronicon 1 (1997): 2: 1–32. URL: <http://xml.ucc.ie/chronicon/ocorrfra.htm>.

abstract:

Traditionally Irish early medieval genealogies were seen as the product of oral tradition, recorded at an early period by monastic writers. This is mistaken. No doubt there was an oral genealogical knowledge, but the genealogical record is modelled on the Old Testament genealogies.

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Irish genealogies early medieval Ireland

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History, society and culture

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Fir Maige FéneFir Maige Féne

Irish dynasty and kingdom (also Caílle) that ultimately gave its name to the Anglo-Norman cantred of Fermoy, Co. Cork.

See more Uí ChúscraidUi Chúscraid

A dynastic branch of the Fir Maige Féne al. Dál Moga Ruith.