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Irish Clans in the Sixteenth century
By John Dorney The word clan seems to have entered English via Scots Gaelic, where it was used to describe the social …
By John Dorney The word clan seems to have entered English via Scots Gaelic, where it was used to describe the social …
The Nine Years saw the final conquest of Gaelic Ireland by the Elizabethans. John Dorney looks at how it affected one powerful …
John Dorney looks at the career of Florence MacCarthy, one of a generation of Gaelic aristocrats swept away by the Elizabethan English conquest …