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From: "NO SPAMMING" <>
Subject: Re: Local knowledge, generalities, etc (was Re: Marriage recognition)
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 20:03:51 -0400
References: <15005-3CD96B2D-33@storefull-2157.public.lawson.webtv.net>, <2a8185f1.0205091212.6e86f1a7@posting.google.com>, <qZBC8.12671$e5.87718@news.indigo.ie>
Well, Sen, your surname means to me that originally your
family name meant 'foreigner ie., Galloglaibh (
Galloglas) - a mercenary fighter hired, usually from the
Scots, but also the Norse.
So deal with that interpretation, won't you?
(AOL users might not know their privacy is being invaded
see: www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html)
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"Sean MacLochlainn" <> wrote in
message news:qZBC8.12671$...
> "Hugh McKiernan" <> wrote in
message
> news:...
>
> > You might also want to have a look at some of the
O'Clery stuff. Be
> > aware, though, that this is O'Clery as translated by
O'Donovan.
> > O'Donovan, though scholarly, made some questionable
translations.
> > http://members.aol.com/lochlan/clanmac.htm
> > The brief history of the O'Clery books written in the
seventeenth
> > century but not published until the nineteenth century
is given on
> > this site.
>
> Ahem....the O Clery Book of Genealogies was edited by
Seamus Pender and
> appeared in Analecta Hibernica, volume 18 [1951]. Don't
believe me? Then
> look at the first few paragraphs of:
>
> http://members.aol.com/lochlan/gensourc.htm
>
> The reference to O Donovan refers to O Donovan's view on
the identity of the
> author, but I shouldn't need to explain that to someone
with 20 years
> experience.
>
> Sean
>
>
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