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Professional medical practitioners in the Gaelic world of Ireland and Scotland was mainly the preserve of a small number of learned families who passed the profession down generation by generation. This principle was practised by other learned families of poets, historians, musicians, and lawyers.
MacCormac family of County Armagh, Northern Ireland (13 P) Pages in category "Irish medical families" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Ó hÍceadha (in English: Hickey; O'Hickey) is a surname of Irish origin. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Hickeys were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC.
Risdeard was a member of the Ó Conchubhair medical family from Ossory, Leinster, who were themselves a branch of the Ó Connchubhair Failghe dynasty, rulers of the Kingdom of Uí Failghe. In one surviving manuscript - now RIA MS 439 (3 C 19) - he gives his genealogy, text title, patron, place and date of writing: [1] Finis.
There were at least three families of this name in Gaelic Ireland. Ó Siadhail of Ui Maine, now east County Galway. Ó Siadhail of Uí Failghe, now County Offaly and County Laois. Ó Siadhail of Tír Chonaill, now County Donegal. Little is recorded of the Ui Maine family.
The kindred is commonly confused with the unrelated Bethune or Beaton family, historically centred in Fife. [6] In fact, the medical kindred adopted the surname Beaton in the fifteenth century. [3] By the seventeenth century, most of the seventeen or so families within the kindred had adopted the surname Beaton, although two used the surname ...
A “xenophobic” portrayal of a rural Irish family in a children’s schoolbook sparked outrage, with one congresswoman asking for its removal from classrooms. Image credits: Gript.
Hickey is a common surname of Irish origin. The original form Ó hÍceadha, which is still used in Ireland, was one of the Irish medical families in Gaelic times. Notable people with the surname include: