MURTAUGH, Paul. Your Irish Coats-of-Arms. Authentic Arms for over 2,000 Irish Names. Illustrated. 

New York: The Ainsworth Company, 1960. pp. [vii], 96. Beige papered boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy.

John O’Donovan stated: “ ... for it was from his own genealogies that each man of the tribe, poor as well as rich, held the charter of his civil state, his right of property in the cantred in which he was born, the soil of which was occupied by one family or clan, and in which no one lawfully possessed any portion of the soil if he was not of the same race with the chief.”

Authentic Arms for over 2,000 Irish families. Coats-of-Arms and crests in full colour. Includes explanations of the origins of Irish family names and arms; Irish versus English Heraldry; The Irish Clan [Sept] System; The Mac, O, and Fitz; Gaelic Irish Surnames which have a foreign appearance: Brazil, Hession, Shovelin, Thulis, etc.

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