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Donegal and the Uí Néill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Brian Lacey
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 143 , May 2009 , pp. 478 - 480
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1 See reviews by Bourke, Cormac in Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 3rd ser., 65 (2006), pp 106-8Google Scholar; Hudson, Benjamin in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 83, no. 2 (Apr. 2008), pp 453-4CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Canann, Tomás Ó in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (hereafter J.R.S.A.I.), 136 (2006), pp 186-8Google Scholar; Ward, Flora in Ir. Eton. & Soc. Hist., xxxiv (2007), pp 132-4Google Scholar; and Dan Wiley in The Medieval Review (2008) (http://quod.lib.umich. edu/t/tmr/) (17 Feb. 2009).

2 See, for example, Etchingham, Cólman, ‘Early medieval Irish history’ in McCone, Kim and Simms, Katharine (eds), Progress in medieval Irish studies (Maynooth, 1996), pp 123-53, 145–52.Google Scholar

3 Etchingham, ‘Early medieval Irish history’, pp 123–4, 127–8, 134, 142–4, 152–3.

4 Foreword in Ceallaigh, Séamus Ó, Gleanings from Ulster (Cork, 1951; repr. Ballinascreen Historical Society, 1994), p. i.Google Scholar

5 An approach apparently advocated by Dr Etchingham himself in ‘Early medieval Irish history’, p. 134.

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7 Lacey, Brian, Cenél Conaill and the Donegal kingdoms AD 500–800 (Dublin, 2006), pp 178-85Google Scholar; idem, ‘The battle of Cúl Dreimne - a reassessment’ in J.R.S.A.I., 133 (2003), pp 78–85.

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9 For a summary of views on the origins and propagandistic basis of the annals, see Evans, Nicholas, ‘Annals and chronicles’ in Duffy, (ed.), Encyclopedia, pp 20-3 and references thereinGoogle Scholar; see also Thomas Charles-Edwards, The Chronicle of Ireland (Liverpool, 2006), pp 7–16Google Scholar, and most importantly McCarthy, D. P., The Irish annals (Dublin, 2008), esp. ch. 5–6.Google Scholar

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11 See note 1 above.