The contents of the book . 'McGlynn: An Irish History'
Chapter 1. Introduction. - Myth, Legend, and Religion of the early Celts. - Who were they and where did they originate from.
Chapter 2. The Pre-Irish Line. - Genealogy from the Bible in the original tradition - Line from the later tradition of the Seventeenth Century - line down to Jesus the Nazerine.
Chapter 3. The Genealogy of the Name. - The Line of Heremon from the Irish Genealogical Tracts down to the Middle Ages - Line to St. Columba and the Kings of Scots.
Chapter 4. The Celtic Autumn. - Vikings, self interest, and the Anglo-Normans extinguish the flame - an outline of the Middle Ages.
Chapter 5. The Modern Era. - Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries, a general outline of history.
Chapter 6. The Migration. - The movement of the native Irish after the Anglo-Norman Invasion, and how they lived.
Chapter 7. The Establishment of the Donegal Sept. - The journey and life of Eoin na mBa mor.
Chapter 8. The Donnchadh Fannie McGlynns. - The story of one particular branch of the family of Eoin.
Maps, Documents, Photographs and families.
Appendices
Appendix 1. Emigration - the early years in Glasgow - McGlynns
Part 1. Electoral Rolls for Glasgow. 1870 - 1895. plus 1925 and 1950.
Part 2. Electoral Rolls for Maryhill. 1892 - 1950.
Appendix 2. Complete lists of McGlynn varients for the West of Scotland. Glasgow and the rest of Lanarkshire; Renfrewshire; Dunbartonshire; Ayrshire; Argyllshire; Stirlingshire. Census materials for 1881(complete), 1891(complete), 1901(in progress). Glasgow Valuation Lists. Post Office Directories. Genealogical Society of Utah (Mormon) Lists of 1992 for Donegal. Poor law claiments with additional genealogical elements with Mitchell Library references. In progress the actual entries.
Appendix 3. Griffiths Lists of McGlynn (and varients) for Donegal 1857 (i). 1901 Census of Donegal for McGlynn from their base in the Finn Valley with notes. (ii) Inishkeel. (iii) Kilteevogue. (iv) Other areas.
Appendix 4. Linear Family Plans.
Appendix 5. Migration to the Americas.
Appendix 6. Scots Census 1881, 1891, 1901 for West and Central Scotland
Appendix 7. Glasgow Poor Law Applications 1850s to 1920s
Maps.
Preface
McGlynn. an Irish History, is an attempt to tell the story of the island from its beginnings through the genealogy of one ordinary family; rather than the small percentage of rich and powerful personalities who normally feature in popular historical tracts.
The First chapter is greatly influenced by Henri Hubert's books, amongst others, with a deal of original interpretation. It tries to give an historical perspective and a balanced view of the interpretation of myth and legend, as does the Second Chapter.
The genealogy comes from the recognised early sources such as MacFirbis and O'Clery, with the later part relying on an oral tradition. The genealogies with the chronicles that enhanced them, must be viewed with circumspect. There was no effective Ard-ri (High King) or Monarchy until the twelfth century, yet the title; as in the main island's Pendragon; was probably in use for many centuries. The society of the Celtic Peoples consisted of many small kings under larger kings, themselves owing allegiance to more powerful kings, but all were in a very fluid relationship. The ri-tuaithe was king of a unit known as a tuath, and above him was a ruire, whose power was based on his own tuath but he had control of other ri-tuaithe. The ri-ruire was a kind of provincial king, but again based on his own tuath. The tuath had disappeared a kingdom by the eleventh century and the leaders were, much like the petty clan chiefs of Scotland, known as toisech; or the leader of a war band.
Comments and opinions in the following two chapters come from many sources over the years, while Chapter Seven is deeply embedded in the oral tradition of the McGlynns in Donegal; as if it happened only a few years ago. Prior to the Famine, which disrupted so much family life and custom, each McGlynn family in Donegal would have had an oral rendition of their forefathers back to Eoin at births and deaths. As it was never commited to paper it is sadly now lost.
The fact that the Irish appear to have more cousins than other western peoples can be explained by their definition of family. There are four family units:- gelfine, lit. the family of the hand; debfine, the certain family; iarfine, the distant family, and indfine, the final family. The gelfine is the man, his father, his sons, and grandsons. The derbfine adds the grandfather, uncles, first cousins, and first cousins` sons. The iarfine adds great-uncles, and two degrees of cousinship; sons and grandsons. The indfine then adds the great-great grandfather, the great-great-uncles, and their sons and grandsons.
Lastly, the name McGlynn derives from the anlicisation of MagFhloinn (phonetically Maglyn). Mag is the form of mac before an aspirate, which both appear in anglicised Irish as Mc. There are only two names that stem from it, McGlynn and McLynn, although McGlynn was often written as McGlin or McGlinn a few generations ago. The name McLynn has substituted Mag for Mc, and appears to be centered in Sligo, or in
D.E.McGlynn, Scotland.
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