The kingdom ruled by Kenneth's descendants — older works used the name House of Alpin to describe them but descent from Kenneth was the defining factor, Irish sources referring to Clann Cináeda meic Ailpín (" the Clan of Kenneth MacAlpin ") — lay to the south of the previously dominant kingdom of Fortriu, centred in the lands around the River Tay.

During the century in which the lists correspond well with the annals, the succession to the kingship of Alba was held in an alternating fashion by two branches of the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin, one descended from Kenneth's son Constantín, Clann Constantín mac Cináeda, and one from Constantín's brother Áed, Clann Áeda mac Cináeda.

It has been proposed that the base of Clann Áeda mac Cináeda's power lay in the north of the kingdom of Alba, beyond the Mounth ( eastern Grampians ) in what had once been Fortriu and which was now called Moray ( in Irish annals of the period, MacBethad is occasionally referred to as King of Fortriu, as well as King / Mormaer of Moray, before his succession to the throne of Alba ).

Later in the eleventh century, from the time of Gille Coemgáin's grandson Máel Snechtai, a genealogy was compiled which traced Máel Snechtai's descent and Clann Ruadrí's origins to the Cenél Loairn founder Loarn mac Eirc.

It is likely that this conception of Clann Ruadrí's origins predates Máel Snechtai and was prevalent in Mac Bethad's time or even earlier.

Congalach was the grandson of High King Flann Sinna of Clann Cholmáin and succeeded to the Uí Néill High Kingship in unusual circumstances on the death of his mother's half-brother Donnchad Donn.

During Alexander ’ s captivity James attempted to split Clann Dòmhnall — Alexander's uncle John Mór was approached by an agent of the king to take the clan leadership but his refusal to have any dealings with the king while his nephew was held prisoner led to John Mór's attempted arrest and death.

However, he was an unacceptable choice to Clann na Poblachta and its deeply republican leader, Seán MacBride.

During the campaign Clann na Poblachta had promised to repeal the External Relations Act of 1936, but did not make an issue of this when the government was being formed.

A group of young boys was organised in the Pipers Club in Thomas Street under the name of Clann Piarsaigh.

The First Inter-Party Government, made up of Fine Gael, the Labour Party, National Labour Party, Clann na Talmhan, Clann na Poblachta and others, was formed under Fine Gael TD John A. Costello.

In the mid-11th century it was part of the trícha cét of Clann Taidg.

Fianna Fáil's political dominance was broken in 1948-51 and in 1954-1957, when coalitions led by Fine Gael ( descendants of Cumann na nGaedheal ), and including the Labour Party and Clann na Poblachta won elections and formed the government.

However, Woolf ( 2005 ) asserts that " contrary to the image, projected by recent clan-historians, of Clann Somhairle as Gaelic nationalists liberating the Isles from Scandinavians, it is quite explicit in our two extended narrative accounts from the thirteenth century, Orkneyinga saga and The Chronicle of the Kings of Man and the Isles, that the early leaders of Clann Somhairle saw themselves as competitors for the kingship of the Isles on the basis of their descent through their mother Ragnhilt " and that their claim " to royal status was based on its position as a segment of Uí Ímair.

However, Mulcahy was not acceptable to Clann na Poblachta's leader, Seán MacBride.

In 1951 Clann na Poblachta was reduced to two seats after the general election.

This distinguished Irish Clann were descended from O ' Muirtheataith, who was descended from Domhnall, King of Munster, and possessed the " Flock abounding Plain " of Aisde on the river Mang in that county.

A new political party, Clann na Talmhan, was established in the late 1930s to represent the interests of smaller farmers in the west of Ireland.

Clann na Poblachta ( – ) was an Irish republican and social democratic political party founded by former Irish Republican Army Chief of Staff Seán MacBride in 1946.

The Labour Party had bitterly split in 1944 over personal differences between William X. O ' Brien and James Larkin while Clann na Talmhan was perceived as being too specialist and too focused on the needs of farmers.

de Valera's tactic was successful ; Clann na Poblachta only won ten seats-far fewer than was expected.

The coalition consisted of Fine Gael, the Labour Party, the National Labour Party, Clann na Poblachta, Clann na Talmhan and several Independent TDs.

Clann had stood on the platform of " get them out " and so clearly a coalition with Fianna Fáil was not an option-even if the larger party would consider it.

Several other Clann na Poblachta TDs followed him out of the coalition and so destroyed the fragile internal unity of the party.

During the campaign Fine Gael put forward the proposal of forming a coalition government with the Labour Party and Clann na Talmhan, however, this was ridiculed by Fianna Fáil as untenable.

A possible cause was that his coalition government was supported by the strongly republican Clann na Poblachta.

But the republicans in Clann were unwilling to serve under Fine Gael and in particular under Fine Gael's leader Richard Mulcahy who was a Free State general during the Civil War.

In keeping with the republican views of many of its key supporters, Clann had throughout maintained close links with republicans in Northern Ireland who espoused similar views, accepting the 1937 Constitution and the government operating under it as legitimate in the twenty-six counties ( differing from Sinn Féin on this issue ) but keeping open the option of armed struggle in Northern Ireland.

The most prominent link of this kind was between the Clann and Liam Kelly and his Fianna Uladh organisation, even though Kelly and the Fianna Uladh's armed wing ( Saor Uladh ) were engaged in a military campaign in Northern Ireland.

In spite of supporting the government from the backbenches, Seán MacBride, the leader of Clann na Poblachta, tabled a motion of no confidence, based on the weakening state of the economy and in opposition to the government's stance on the IRA.

Mitchell began his political involvement when he supported Seán MacBride, leader of the radical republican Clann na Poblachta at the 1957 general election.

In 1950, he joined Clann na Poblachta, a new party led by Sean MacBride, who had been an IRA officer in Carlow during Chink's posting there.

In 1946, MacBride founded the republican / socialist party Clann na Poblachta.

Two Clann na Poblachta TDs joined the cabinet ; MacBride became Minister for External Affairs while Noël Browne became Minister for Health.

In 1946, MacBride founded a new political party called Clann na Poblachta.

Labour's William Norton became Tánaiste while MacBride of Clann na Poblachta became Minister for External Affairs.

* 15 January-Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner ( born 1904 ).

* 26 January-Seán MacBride, former Clann na Poblachta TD, Cabinet Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner ( died 1988 ).

Isolated in cabinet as a ' loner ' who did not consult with his more experienced cabinet colleagues, he also faced the hostility of his own party leader, Sean MacBride, with whom Browne had also fallen out, as he had with most members of the Clann na Poblachta Parliamentary Party, who resented his appointment to cabinet over the heads of more senior colleagues, and who were also offended by his treatment of them.

In April 1951, MacBride demanded Browne's resignation as a Clann na Poblachta minister.

Despite legal moves initiated by Seán MacBride, public protests, and parliamentary intervention by TDs from Clann na Talmhan, Labour, and Independent Oliver J. Flanagan

Clann na Poblachta ( led by former IRA Chief of Staff Seán MacBride ) withdrew its support for the government in protest over this policy.