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(4) FAMILIES

Bermingham

Burke

Butler-Ormond

Clare, de

Desmond Geraldines (FitzGeralds of Desmond)

Fitzgerald

Lacy, de

Mac Aodhagáin

Mac Carthy

Mac Donnell

Mac Fhir Bhisigh

Mac Lochlainn

Mac Mahon

Mac Murrough

Mac Sweeney

Maguire

Marshal

Mortimer

Ó Conchobhair-Fáilge

Ó Ruairc

Plunkett

Poer

Savage

Ua Briain

Ua Catháin

Ua Conchobhair
Ua Dálaigh
Ua Domnaill
Ua Néill
Ua Néill, Clandeboye
Valence, de
Verdon, de

(5) LEARNING

Áes Dána

Bardic Schools, Learned Families

Duanairí

Education

Languages

Law Schools, Learned Families

Medicine

Sciences

Scriptoria

(6) LITERATURE: GENRES

Ulster Cycle

Historical Tales

Invasion Myth

Hagiography and Martyrologies

Aideda

Comperta

Devotional and Liturgical

Dinnsenchas

Echtrai

Etymology

Genealogy

Glosses

Grammatical Treatises

Hiberno-English Literature

Hiberno-Latin Literature

Hiberno-Norman (Latin)

Immrama

Law Tracts

Lyrics

Metrics

Moral and Religious Instruction

Mythological Cycle

Penitentials

Prophecies and Vaticinal Literature

Rhetoric

Romance

Satire

Triads

Wisdom Texts

Poetry, Hiberno-Latin

Poetry, Irish

(7) LITERATURE; INFLUENCES

Anglo-Saxon

Biblical and Church Fathers

Carolingian

Classical

French

Scandinavian

Scottish

Welsh

(8) MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTS

Annals of the Four Masters

Armagh, Book of

Durrow, Book of

Forus Feasa ar Éirinn

Kells, Book of

Leabhar Breac

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