2000s Books (Study Guide) - Leabhar Na Ngenealach, Mandie, Cuimre Na Ngenealach, 2000s in Books (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Leabhar Na Ngenealach, Mandie, Cuimre Na Ngenealach, 2000s in Books. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Leabhar na nGenealach is a massive genealogical collection written mainly in the years 1649 to 1650, at the college-house of St. Nicholas's church, Galway, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh. He continued to add material till at least 1666 (he was murdered in 1671). It was published in a five volume edition in Dublin in 2004 as The Great Book of Irish Genealogies. Described by Eoin MacNeill "by far the largest and fullest body of Irish genealogical lore," it contains roughly twice as much material as found in the Book of Ballymote and the Book of Lecan. It preserves notes on families from all parts of Ireland, Gaelic Scotland, the pre-Gaelic, Viking and Old English peoples of Ireland. It features an eighteen page preface, nine 'books' or divisions and a seventy-four page Clar or general index in double columns. It consists of eight hundred and seventy one pages, 95% of which is in Mac Fhirbhisigh's handwriting. The remainder is in the hand of an unknown amanuensis, and incorporates some pages written in 1636 by Micheal O Cleirigh. Many questions concern Leabhar na nGenealach. In the words of Nollaig O Muraile: " ... who or what prompted Mac Fhirbhisigh to undertake the compilation of Leabhar na nGenealach? ... how much planning and organisation (such as the collection of source material) preceded the writing of the book ..? Did he, at any time during the compilation ... entertain hopes of seeing it printed ...? Unfortunately, we have very little in which to base even the most tentative of answers to these questions. We simply do not know ..." Nor is it known how he supported himself in Galway, though he did commissions f...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1443447