Women in Irish genealogies and the suggestion that some women have disappeared within the early Irish genealogies because the Old Irish word for daughter “dercu” became archaic very quickly, so it became a “masculine” name. To explain this a bit better 1/
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @mdvl_mornings
The original genealogy would read (in Modern English) “X son of the daughter (dercu) of Y” but would become “X son of Dercu son of Y”. Whether it was accidental or deliberate, hard to say. May be a combo of both. Women seemed more important in earlier genealogies though.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @mdvl_mornings
This research isn’t really new and is actually partially based on some older research by F.J. Byrne, but this seems to largely have been ignored. Which is strange because he was a big name in early Irish history, and a white dude. But I guess even his name wasn’t enough.
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Replying to @mdvl_mornings
I can totally send you the paper by Byrne, but my take on it is in my in-production thesis currently which I can send you my rough draft if you like!
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