Edward MacLysaght (; 6 November 1887 – 4 March 1986 ) was one of the foremost genealogists of twentieth century Ireland.

MacLysaght was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1942 and in the same year was awarded a D. Litt.

MacLysaght served as Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Ireland from 1948 to 1954 and was Chairman of the Irish Manuscripts Commission from 1956 to 1973.

The version Ó Proinntigh, which was first given by Father Woulfe in his Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall ( Surnames of the Gael and the Foreigner ) and reproduced without question by MacLysaght inter alia cannot be accepted as correct, as there were a number of well-known scribes with this name writing in Irish in the 17th and 18th centuries and all of them used the spelling Ó Pronntaigh.

Edward MacLysaght 1887-1986, writer and authority on Irish family history, was his son.

O ' Hart's 800-page The Irish and Anglo-Irish landed gentry ( Dublin 1884 ) was reprinted in 1969, with an introduction by Edward MacLysaght, the first Chief Herald of Ireland.

According to Professor Edward MacLysaght, in the mid 20th century Gallagher was one of the most common Irish surnames, most of the recorded births being located in the north-west provinces of Ulster and Connacht, with the majority being recorded in the homeland of the sept-Co Donegal.

* 1986 – Edward MacLysaght, Irish genealogist ( b. 1887 )

* MacLysaght, Edward ( 1996 ) More Irish Families.

* Clans and Chieftains in Ireland From More Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght, First Chief Herald of Ireland

* MacLysaght, Edward, Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins.

Edward MacLysaght also notes that the Irish surname Aiken is the Scottish form of the English Aitken.

O ' Laughlin, and MacLysaght, note that Aiken as an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó hAodhagáin ( frequently Anglicised as O ' Hagan ).

MacLysaght notes that although the surname Aicken is generally of Scottish origin ( as diminutive of Adam ), it is also possibly an Anglicised form of the Irish Ó h-Aogáin.

* Edward MacLysaght, Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins.

* MacLysaght, Edward, Irish Families: Their Names, Arms and Origins.

until 1255 " may be the most reliable, and also is consistent with the statement by the Irish genealogical authority Edward MacLysaght (" More Irish Families ") that the McGreevys were " lords of Moylurg.

In the 1940s Edward MacLysaght, the Chief Herald of Ireland, drew up a list of over 240 Irish clans.

According to genealogist Edward MacLysaght the surname Lundy is from Norman de la Lounde, a name recorded in medieval documents in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny in Ireland.

Recently, the late Edward MacLysaght suggested the English word " sept " be used in place of the word ' clan ' with regard to the historical social structure in Ireland, to differentiate it from the centralized Scottish clan system.

* Edward MacLysaght ( 1887 – 1986 ) genealogist of twentieth century Ireland.

* The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, Dublin, 1978.

* The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, Dublin, 1978.

* The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, Dublin, 1978.

* The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, Dublin, 1978.

According to The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght, there are three distinct septs of Muldoon: Galway ( around Uí Maine ), Clare ( whose names were generally Anglicised to Malone ), and in Co. Fermanagh where the name is most common.

* The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, Dublin, 1978.

Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.

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