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Irish Chiefs and Indians

IRISH journalist Maureen Cairnduff, who sprang to fame with the publication of Who's Who in Ireland, the first directory of its kind in the Twenty Six Counties, listing "the influential 1,000", writes an attractive column in Ireland's national newspaper, the Irish Independent.
She was in London recently and told me about the paradoxical success of the London Irish speakers in the Donegal Gaeltacht. Over half the scholars excelling at the recent Irish language course held in Glenfin, and which she attended, were cockneys, more Irish than the Irish themselves.
Maureen must have had a riotous time compiling her Who's Who. From it, is my favourite list of living Irish Chieftains: MacDermot, The: Sir Dermot, Prince of Coolavin, KCMG, CBE, Irish Chieftain b. 1906 educ Stonyhurst, Trinity College, Dublin . . .
McGillycuddy of the Reeks, The: Richard McGillycuddy, Irish Chieftain b. 1949 educ Eton, Aix-ex Province University . . .
O'Brien of Thomond, The: Sir Phaedrie Lucius Ambrose O'Brien, Baron of Inchiquin Irish Chieftain b. 1900 educ Eton, Oxford . . .
O'Conor Don, The: Denis O'Conor Irish Chieftain b. 1912 educ Downside and Sandhurst O'Donel of Tirconnell, The: Aodh O'Donel Fr Ambrose OFM Irish Chieftain: currently a parish priest in Zimbabwe . . .




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