chieftainry

Updated: May 2, 2025

To English notions this might have been conclusive against Donald's title, but to the Irish, among whom the electoral principle was the source of all chieftainry, it was not so. A large proportion of the patriotic Leinstermen what might be called the native party adhered to Donald Kavanagh, utterly rejecting the title derived through the lady Eva.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee - A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete

To English notions this might have been conclusive against Donald's title, but to the Irish, among whom the electoral principle was the source of all chieftainry, it was not so. A large proportion of the patriotic Leinstermen what might be called the native party adhered to Donald Kavanagh, utterly rejecting the title derived through the lady Eva.

Thomas D'Arcy McGee - A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1