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The records of Gaelic Chieftains
The records of Gaelic Chieftains in GO 610 and 627 are the consequence of a revival instituted in the 1940s by Dr. Edward MacLysaght, the first Chief Herald of Ireland. He attempted to trace the senior lineal descendants in the male line of the last recorded Gaelic Chief of the Name, who was then officially designated as the contemporary holder of the title. The practice has met with mixed success, since the collapse of Gaelic culture in the seventeenth century left an enormous gulf to be bridged, and the chieftainships were not in any case originally passed on by primogeniture but by election within the extended kingroup. Nonetheless, more than twenty Chiefs have been designated, and the records of the research which went into establishing their right to the title are extremely interesting.
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