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A
full-length study of a remarkable genealogical scam
Sean J Murphy, Twilight of the Chiefs: The Mac Carthy Mór Hoax
Maunsel & Co, an imprint of Academica Press, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004
8 + 256 pages, hardback, illustrated, ISBN 1-930901-43-7
Available from Amazon.com
Terence MacCarthy (left) and assorted chiefs with President Mary Robinson, 1991
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Sean J Murphy, Twilight of the Chiefs: The Mac Carthy Mór Hoax
Maunsel & Co, an imprint of Academica Press, Bethesda, Maryland, 2004
8 + 256 pages, hardback, illustrated, ISBN 1-930901-43-7
Available from Amazon.com
Terence MacCarthy (left) and assorted chiefs with President Mary Robinson, 1991
A
scholarly account of the origin and survival of Gaelic chiefships in
Ireland, and of the imposture carried out by Terence MacCarthy of
Belfast.
MacCarthy successfully persuaded the Office of the Chief Herald of
Ireland, the President of Ireland, many in the Irish establishment, and
a substantial number of individuals abroad, that he was 'The Mac Carthy
Mór', head of the royal house of Desmond or south Munster.
The book describes the origin and progress of a profitable hoax,
MacCarthy's
exposure and 'abdication' in 1999, and the continuing reverberations of
the affair. The work also features accounts of authentic chiefships and
includes a Register of Irish Chiefs. See table
of contents and
sample extracts.
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