Links in a Golden Chain, Collected Essays on the History of The Niadh Nask or the Military Order of the Golden Chain - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 096542202X ISBN 13: 9780965422024

Publisher: Gryfons Publishers & Distributors, 1998

Synopsis

The task facing those who would reveal the true history of Gaeldom to the Irish people is enormous. "This is the role that the scholars of the Royal Eóghanacht Society might play. Even before the foundation of the Society, the current MacCarthy Mór, Prince of Desmond, set out to publish works not only on his ancestors but the history of the Kingdom of Munster and to reclaim the role of his dynasty in Irish history. He is to be applauded. This endeavour should be emulated by the other Irish princely dynasties. There is much work that ought to be done in restoring a proper perception of Gaelic reality - some projects could be brought to fruition under the collective patronage of all the princely houses. Among many ventures which are easily achievable, for example, is a Biographical Dictionary of Irish Kings, enumerating all the regnant kings of Ireland with their dates and details of their reigns. No such work exists. Yet we have a Biographical Dictionary of Irish Saints, a Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers, a Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France, a Dictionary of Irish Artists and Women of Ireland: A Biographical Dictionary. Of the Irish kings there is no such reference work. It is as if nearly two millennia of Irish history did not exist. The idea for such a body of scholars was first proposed in the 1930s by Thomas Donal XIII MacCarthy Mór (d. 1947), but came into being last year under Tadgh V, the current MacCarthy Mór.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gryfons Publishers & Distributors
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 096542202X
• ISBN 13: 9780965422024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Clandermond Count Of