Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

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Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh [d̪ˠʊwəl̪ˠt̪ˠəx mak ɪɾʲəvʲɪʃiː] , even Dubhaltach Og Mac Fhirbhisigh , Dubach the Younger or DUALD Mac Firbis , Dualdus Firbissius (* 1600, † 1671 ) from Tireragh ( Tir Fhiachrach ) in the west of County Sligo was an Irish historian of 17 Century.

biography

family

Dubhaltach belonged to the Mac Fhirbhisigh family of historians, who came from Mayo . The family was traced back to Fear Bisigh , son of Domhnall Óg , who, according to the annals of Tighearnán, was Ollamh of Uí Fhiachrach and a deacon in Cong in the 12th century . The family were the bards (Ollamh) of the Uí Amhalghaidh in Rosserk ( Ros Eirc ) in Tirawley ( Tír Amhalghaidh ).

Life

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh was born around 1600 in Lackan ( Leacán ) in the barony of Tireragh ( Tír Fhiachrach ) in County Sligo , not far from Inishcrone . Dubhaltach visited a school in Ballymacegan ( County Tipperary ) near Portumna , which was run by the family Mac Aodhagáin. From his knowledge of Greek and Latin, Ó Muraíle concludes that he then attended a municipal school, probably in Sligo , perhaps that of James Lynch . He could have been a schoolmate of Patrick Darcy (1599–1668). There is evidence that Dubhaltach moved to Galway between 1643 and 1645. Whether he witnessed the nine-month siege of the city by the forces of Cromwell under Charles Coote is unknown. In the 1680s he was in Castletown ( Baile an Chaisleáin ), north of Lackan. In 1665 he stayed in Dublin, partly in the house of Sir James Ware on Castle Street. After Ware's death in the spring of 1666, he returned to Tireragh. In 1671 he was stabbed to death in an inn in Doonflin ( Dún Fhlainn ), west of Skreen , by Thomas Crofton, a local landowner, the reasons are unclear.

Works

Transcripts

Dubhaltach made a number of copies of older works that either only survived or that represent the least falsified versions. These transcripts include:

  • the glossary Dúil Laithne (1643)
  • Bretha Nemed Déidenach / Breatha Neimheadh ​​Deidheanach , a legal treatise
  • Chronicon Scotorum , perhaps on behalf of the historian John Lynch
  • Seanchas Síl Ír (1645), a medieval genealogical treatise from the Book of Dubhagain , also known as the Book of Uí Mhaine .

Translations

Dubhaltach also translated Irish texts into English. These included texts from the Convent of the Poor Clares in Galway (1647).

Historical works

1649-1650 Dubhaltach wrote the Leabhar Genealach in Galway . It is based in part on the Great Book of Lecan (Lackan), which was written between 1397 and 1418. It covers the ancestry and history of Irish and Norman families in Mayo and Sligo. In 1653 he added details from the Vitae of Irish Saints to the work. Nollaig Ó Muraíle assigns him the same status in Irish historiography as the Annals of the Four Masters ( Annála Ríoghdhachta Éireann ) and the Foras feasa ar Éirinn .

  • Leabhar Genealach , The Book of Family Trees / Genealogical Treatises. 1650
  • a work on Irish authors written in 1656 has been lost.
  • a bilingual genealogy of the Berminghams , Barons of Athenry .

Poems

  • an award poem on Dermot O'Shaughnessy by Gort

swell

Sources on his life are sparse. He is mentioned in the book Cambrensis Eversus by John Lynch (1662) and in some documents, such as the marriage certificate of David O'Dowd.

literature

  • Nollaig Ó Muraíle: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh and County Galway. In: Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 49, 1997, pp. 22-35.
  • Nollaig Ó Muraíle: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh and County Mayo. In: Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 58, 2006, pp. 1-21.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ó Muraíle 2006, 1.
  2. ↑ Ó Muraíle 2006, 1.
  3. ↑ Ó Muraíle 2006, 1.
  4. ↑ Ó Muraíle 1997, 26.
  5. ↑ Ó Muraíle 1997, 23.
  6. ^ Paul Walsh: The Dating of the Irish Annals. In: Irish Historical Studies 2/8, 1941, 355.
  7. ↑ Ó Muraíle 1997, 23.
  8. ↑ Ó Muraíle 2006, 1.
  9. ↑ Ó Muraíle 2006, 5.
  10. ↑ Ó Muraíle 1997, 24.
  11. ↑ Ó Muraíle 1997, 22.
  12. ↑ Ó Muraíle 1997, 25.
personal data
SURNAME Mac Fhirbhisigh, Dubhaltach
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mac Fhirbhisigh, Dubhaltach Óg; Dubach the Younger; Mac Firbis, Duald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish historian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
DATE OF DEATH 1671