céilí

ancient Irish social class

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history of Ireland

  • Map showing the republic of Ireland, its counties, and its major cities.
    In Ireland: Political and social organization

    Greater landowners were supported by céilí, or clients. These and other grades of society, minutely classified and described by legal writers, tilled the soil and tended the cattle. Individual families were the real units of society and collectively exercised powers of ownership over their farms and territory. At law the…

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