Chiefs’ Prize

By David C. Mac Donagh DNA is being used for genealogy in various ways, but especially by taking men’s Y-chromosome data in combination with their modern surnames to correlate with historical genealogies. A lot of work has been done on this for several of the recorded Irish dynastic groups; the focus of this article is … Read more

By Cora Crampton Up to the end of the sixteenth century the Gaelic polity relied heavily on intermarriage as a crucial means of consolidating political and military power bases. To this end, high-status Gaelic women functioned as political resources under the control of their male relatives. It is proposed to examine available traces of the … Read more