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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition [Carroll lecture 1992]”, Chronicon 1 (1997): 2: 1–32.

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Ó Corráin (Donnchadh)

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“Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition [Carroll lecture 1992]”

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Chronicon: An Electronic History Journal 1 (1997)

Bracken, Damian (ed.), Chronicon 1 (1997), Online. URL: <http://xml.ucc.ie/chronicon/index.html>.

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1

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2: 1–32

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<http://xml.ucc.ie/chronicon/ocorrfra.htm>

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Traditionally Irish early medieval genealogies were seen as the product of oral tradition, recorded at an early period by monastic writers. This is mistaken. No doubt there was an oral genealogical knowledge, but the genealogical record is modelled on the Old Testament genealogies.

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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition [Carroll Lecture 1992]”, Peritia 12 (1998): 177–208.

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Irish genealogies early medieval Ireland

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page name: Ó Corráin (Donnchadh) 1997 chro1kdb