This new research monograph discusses the basis of one of Ireland's
most extensive (and profitable) hoaxes: the MacCarthy Mor Affair,
and the attendant scandal surrounding the selling of Irish
traditional titles to otherwise sane businessmen and professionals.
Murphy's research covers the origins of the old Gaelic titles in
pre-Norman Ireland. Principally the title of Chief, the collapse of
the Gaelic order, the survival of some chiefly titles, the Gaelic
Revival and the emergence of the Office of Arms. An account is
given of the Office of Chief Herald as part of the new Irish state
and the courtesy recognition under Dr. MacLysaght in 1944 and years
that followed. Finally the emergence of one Terrence MacCarthy of
Belfast as "MacCarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond" and his initial
success and final unmasking is amusingly and cogently described.
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