''Mac Carthaigh’s Book'' is a collection of
annals
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Scope
The nature of the distinction betw ...
of the period AD
1114
Year 1114 (Roman numerals, MCXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* January 7 – Emperor Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V marries Empress Maud, Matilda (or Maude), 11-yea ...
–
1437 inclusive. It was compiled from earlier material by
Fínghin Mac Carthaigh Mór (c. 1560–1640) an Irish nobleman who was imprisoned for years in London. He was a patron of learning and a scholar in his own right. While in London in 1633 he employed
Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin who also kept the book in his castle until it was sacked by Radhulbh MacAmlaoibh, then his
clan
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and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim descent from a founding member or apical ancestor who serves as a symbol of the clan's unity. Many societie ...
took control of it, they copied and compiled these annals for him.
The original manuscript is currently preserved in the
National Library of Ireland
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. The annals were edited and translated by Séamus Ó hInnse and published in 1947 by the
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
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under the title ‘Miscellaneous Irish Annals’.
Mac Carthaigh's Book is important as one of the few native records of events in southern Ireland for the period it covers and it provides information on the effect the Norman Invasion had on Munster. Besides relying on other Irish annals it drew upon some foreign sources, notably
Giraldus Cambrensis' ''Expugnatio Hibernica''.
See also
*
Irish annals
A number of Irish annals, of which the earliest was the Chronicle of Ireland, were compiled up to and shortly after the end of the 17th century. Annals were originally a means by which monks determined the yearly chronology of feast days. Over ti ...
*
The Chronicle of Ireland
The Chronicle of Ireland () is the modern name for a hypothesized collection of ecclesiastical annals recording events in Ireland from 432 to 911 AD.
Several surviving annals share events in the same sequence and wording, until 911 when they con ...
References
* ''Miscellaneous Irish Annals'', Séamus Ó hInnse, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1947.
* ''Oxford Concise Companion to Irish Literature'', Robert Welsh, 1996.
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Irish chronicles
Irish-language manuscripts
17th-century history books
MacCarthy dynasty