Bibliography

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

journal article

Citation details

Contributor(s)

Ó Corráin (Donnchadh)

Article

“Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition”

[additional details: Carroll Lecture 1992]

Periodical

Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 12 (1998)

Peritia 12 (1998).

Volume

12

Pages

177–208

Related publications

First edition or printing

Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Creating the past: the early Irish genealogical tradition [Carroll lecture 1992]”, Chronicon 1 (1997): 2: 1–32. URL: <http://xml.ucc.ie/chronicon/ocorrfra.htm>.

abstract:

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.

Subjects and topics

Headings

Irish genealogies early medieval Ireland

Sources

Texts

A Rí richid, réidig dam • Etymologiae (Isidore of Seville) • Lebor gabála Érenn • Old Testament • Tract on the Laigin

Keywords

orality

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Contributors

C. A.,Dennis Groenewegen