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Stories from Gaelic Ireland : microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals
- Title
- Stories from Gaelic Ireland : microhistories from the sixteenth-century Irish annals / Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie.
- Author
- Cunningham, Bernadette.
- Publication
- Dublin : Four Courts Press, ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DA935 .C866 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gillespie, Raymond.
- Description
- 224 pages : illustrations, maps, charts; 24 cm
- Summary
- This innovative book breaks new ground in the study of Gaelic Ireland by exploiting the rich source material contained in the sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Loch Ce. The storytelling of the annalists provides the openings into the past that are the key to the book. Using the techniques of microhistory, seven of the longer narratives from the Gaelic annals are analysed to reveal multiple aspects of the society from which the stories emerged. Lordship, lineage, learning, politics and religion are among the themes explored. The stories focus on Gaelic lordships in north Connacht and south Ulster and each story is illuminated by reference to other contemporary evidence, including genealogies and political poetry. -- Publisher description
- This quirky, yet important book, breaks new ground in the study of Gaelic Ireland by exploiting the rich source material contained in the sixteenth-century Annals of Ulster, Annals of Connacht, the Annals of Loch Ce and the Four Masters. While attention has previously been paid to poetry in Irish as a source for the history of the 16th century, the richness of the prose sources have not been exploited by historians. The annals contain a series of short accounts of events arranged by year. The storytelling of the annalists provides the openings into the past that are the key to this book, which uses seven of their longer stories to examine, at micro level, aspects of Gaelic society that created them. The significance of each story is illuminated by reference to other contemporary evidence, including the genealogies and the poetry. The text is provided in both the original Irish with an English language translation, with extensive writings placing the passages in their historical time. -- Publisher description
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Chronologies.
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.
- Contents
- Getting and spending: the political economy of the Mac Diarmada lordship, 1549 -- The dispossession of MacCostello: land and lineage in Mayo, 1586 -- The murder of a historian: lineage, learning and morality in Fermanagh, 1534 -- The burning of Domnach Magh da Claine: church and sanctity in the diocese of Clogher, 1508 -- A world of wonders: marvels and prodigies in the diocese of Elphin, 1588 -- Remembering Ruaidhri Mac Diarmadia: memory and memorialisation in Roscommon, 1568 -- Sir Nicholas Malby's obituary, 1584: outsiders in the sixteenth-century Irish annals.
- ISBN
- 1851827471
- 9781851827473
- LCCN
- 2004555519
- OCLC
- ocm52783988
- 52783988
- SCSB-14286314
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library