If you are an O’Callaghan, or a Callaghan, or a Callahan or related in any way with that family, you will want to read Clan Callaghan: The O Callaghan Family of County Cork by Joseph F. O’Callaghan. Originally published in 2005, this revised edition in paperback was published in 2020 by Clearfield Company, a subsidiary of Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. You may obtain a copy through genealogical.com.
Drawing on historical narratives, poetry, and documentary records, this extremely well researched history traces the origins of the O’Callaghan family from Cellachán of Cashel, a tenth-century king of Munster, down to modern times.
In addition to an extensive bibliography, this book includes five maps, thirty-five illustrations and sixteen genealogical tables.
“A historical delight, Clan Callaghan offers a wondrous overview of this ancient clan in tandem with a collegiate-level dose of Irish history. Written in 2005 and revised in 2020, the author shares his lifelong labor of love. A historian at heart and vocation, his love for this family is clear.”
(excerpt from review by Bridget Sunderlin in National Genealogical Society Quarterly, September 2021; reprinted in Genealogical.com, 2021/12/13)
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