Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland: : An Ethnography of the Gael, A.D. 500-1750

A scholarly, but readable, presentation of the origins and history of more than one thousand Irish and Scottish families. The social and individual history of clans and families. Also heraldic coats of arms of individual families are discussed and a list of Anglicized surnames giving ethnic group and the branch they are a part of. Charts, appendices, and bibliography.