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The Annals of the Four Masters: Ireland's Epic Chronicle
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into the Annals of the Four Masters, the monumental 17th-century chronicle that gathered over three thousand years of Irish history into a single, sprawling narrative. They explore how a team of Gaelic scholars and scribes, led by the Franciscan friar Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, worked during the chaos of the Cromwellian conquest to preserve the memory of a vanishing world. The conversation traces the annals' origins in earlier chronicles like the Annals of Ulster, their meticulous compilation from sources both lost and surviving, and the challenges of dating…
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