The surname Fitzpatrick is readily identified as Irish. Until recently, the traditional Fitzpatrick
surname narrative was of a medieval super-progenitor named Giolla Phádraig. His offspring …

Y-DNA analysis of Fitzpatricks has turned traditional historical narratives of how the surname
was taken on its head. The attachment of the surname Fitzpatrick to the Barons of Upper …

The starting place for Part II of Mac Giolla Phádraig Osraí: 1384-1534 is Feartach, Cill
Chainnigh (Fertagh, Co. Kilkenny) where a previously little known Mac Giolla Phádraig …

Y-DNA analysis is a remarkable method that can inform patrilineal genealogies, both
ancient, and modern. Applied here to facilitate a critical review of Branan pedigrees, an …

Before the turn of the 17th century the settlement of Irish in the Americas lacked
permanence. Soon after, Irish came to North America and the Caribbean in a steady flow …

There is nothing new about the narratives of some Irish clans being sometimes inaccurate.
But there is a world of difference between slight exaggerations of deeds, or misdeeds, or …

This chapter is a discussion on the practice of employing arts-based methods, including
craft, to engage in Critical Family History (Sleeter) as a framework for decolonization. Arts …

Methods for (un) knowing whiteness do not exist within the current methods of narrative
study centered on personal experience. This three article dissertation threads together three …

Methods for (un) knowing whiteness do not exist within the current methods of narrative
study centered on personal experience. This three article dissertation threads together three …