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Leabhar Muimhneach
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Large Irish genealogical compilation, which covers the whole of Ireland but devotes special attention to Munster families. All extant manuscript copies date from the 18th century or later and are thought to derive from an original of unknown date. There are two complete manuscript copies and these may be said to represent a conflation of three tracts: an introductory world history based on Lebor gabála, the ‘Book of Thomond’, which is concerned with the Dál Cáis, and a tract concerned with the Eóganacht, designated by Paul Walsh as the ‘Book of Desmond’.
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Secondary sources (select)
Ó Muraíle, Nollaig, The celebrated antiquary: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671): his lineage, life and learning, Maynooth Monographs, 6, Maynooth: An Sagart, 1996.
OʼCurry, Eugene, Lectures on the manuscript materials of ancient Irish history, delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland during the sessions of 1855 and 1856, Dublin, 1861.
