{"id":203,"date":"2014-05-10T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T06:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2020-09-10T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T06:44:01","slug":"2014-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"2014 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This announces the publication of the article &#8216;<em>Irish Chiefly Succession in the 21st Century<\/em>&#8216;, written with the support of the Kingdom of Desmond Association by The \u00d3 Cath\u00e1in, Chief-of-the-Name.<br>The author is a distinguished historian on the subject of the historic and correct manner of Irish successions; in this remarkable article he brings forward the concept of an &#8216;Ad Hoc Derbhfine&#8217;, long in use in Scotland. The concept is founded on historic Brehon Law and does indeed demonstrate a method, easily adopted for Irish purposes, which allows for chiefly succession when a clan has become leaderless due to the vicissitudes of our history.<br>And, naturally, the adoption of correct practices will finally obviate the catastrophic errors made by the Office of Chief Herald, the Standing Council of Irish Chiefs, and by many ill-informed &#8216;historians&#8217; over the course of many many years.<br><strong>STRONGLY RECOMMENDED<\/strong>. Current clans with &#8216;elected&#8217; chiefs \/ presidents can consider the Ad Hoc Derbhfine approach if they so wish. It is simply another option, but one based on historic traditions within the Gaelic order of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This announces the publication of the article &#8216;Irish Chiefly Succession in the 21st Century&#8216;, written with the support of the Kingdom of Desmond Association by The \u00d3 Cath\u00e1in, Chief-of-the-Name.The author is a distinguished historian on the subject of the historic and correct manner of Irish successions; in this remarkable article he brings forward the concept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}