Chief of the Name
The Chief of the Name, or in older English usage Captain of his Nation, is the recognised head of a family or clan (Irish and Scottish Gaelic: fine). The term has sometimes been used as a title in Ireland and Scotland.
See also: Gaelic nobility of Irelanda notable historical case
Donal II O'Donovan
White Rod
Irish name
Burkes Peerage: See Irish and Scottish Chiefs; Peerages; and Titles
Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland. Palgrave. Revised edition, 2002.
Ellis, Peter Berresford
Kingdom of Desmond Association 'Irish Chiefly Succession: "Ad Hoc Derbhfine Guildlines"' on Clan MacCarthy Foundation website and in AWEN, Journal of the Noble Society of Celts, 2014.
Murphy, Sean J (2004) Twilight of the Chiefs: The Mac Carthy Mór Hoax. Bethesda, Maryland: . ISBN 1-930901-43-7.
Academica Press
MacLysaght, Edward (1996) More Irish Families. Dublin, Ireland: Irish Academic Press. 0-7165-2604-2.
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Nicholls, K.W. Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2003. 1-84351-003-0.
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Vanishing Kingdoms – The Irish Chiefs and Their Families, by Walter J. P. Curley (former US Ambassador to Ireland), with foreword by , published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2004. ISBN 1-84351-055-3 & ISBN 1-84351-056-1. (Chapter on O'Donnell of Tyrconnell, page 59).
Charles Lysaght
Nash, Professor C., Of Irish Descent, chapter 4. New York, Syracuse University Press, 2008. 978-0-8156-3159-0
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Clans of Ireland
From More Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght, First Chief Herald of Ireland