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The Clann O DubhGhaill/Clan Doyle are
relatively "recent" arrivals in Ireland ... being Danish
Vikings who have "only" been in Ireland for about the
last 1,000 years.
The Patron of the Clann O DubhGhaill/Clan Doyle is the Royal
O Conor Don, the Prince of Connaught, the most senior of all the
hereditary Great Chiefs of Ireland, and the direct descendant of
the last High King of all Ireland. The Chieftain of the Clann O
DubhGhaill/Clan Doyle pays tribute to the O Conor Don each year by
the service of a spur (which is the traditional symbol of feudal
military service).
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Doyle's of Ancient Ireland |
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Artist: Angus McBride
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The names Doyle (and in days
gone by, O’Doyle) stand high in the list of
Irish surnames arranged in order of numerical strength,
holding twelfth place in Ireland. Though now widely
distributed it was always most closely associated with
the counties of southeast Leinster (Wicklow, Wexford,
and Carlow) in which it is chiefly found today. Of
course, the Doyles and O’Doyles are also prominent in
and around other Viking settlements in Ireland such as
Dublin, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Donegal.
In the records of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and
seventeenth centuries this name also appears prominently
in these same areas. However, the Dowells &
McDowells are most common in Roscommon and Ulster, where
they first settled in the 1200's.
The Doyle's are descendants of
the Vikings, who settled along the seacoast in
pre-Norman times; and in fact the Doyle's are and
where always more numerous in areas adjacent to the sea
coast, which tends to confirm this view. DubhGall,
it may be mentioned, is the word used in early times to
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Pronounced
faulte arow-at |
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Clann O DubhGhaill / Clan Doyle Exists to promote and
strengthen a mutual interest and fellowship throughout
the World between all persons bearing the family name of
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"A
people that have forgotten their heritage, are a people
who have lost faith in themselves."
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The Doyle Coat of
Arms
Doyle
Listed in Robson's "British Herald"
So,
like thousands of Irish families in America, in Britain, in New
Zealand, in South Africa, in Australia -- and even in Ireland --
you've bought an attractive polished replica of the Doyle family
crest or "coat of arms."
There
are a few things you ought to know.
First
there is no such thing as a "Doyle family coat of
arms."
According
to experts in Heraldry, "Arms" were (and are) granted
to individuals (and their direct descendants). Patrick O'Shea,
one such expert, writes, "Most of these examples of
armorial bearings originated as English Grants of Arms in the
late Medieval or early Renaissance periods. Today the regulation
of armorial bearings in Ireland is handled by the Chief Herald
of Ireland or the U.K. College of Arms (in Northern Ireland),
and both authorities continue to make new grants of arms to
worthy individuals."
O'Shea
also writes that "Irish heraldry does appear to have native
roots at least five centuries older than the system introduced
by the Anglo-Normans in 1169."
In
order to display a "coat of arms" as your own, you
must prove that you are the direct first born descendant of the
individual to whom the arms were granted.
Unless
you can prove that you are the heir to a properly matriculated
“coat of arms”, you have no Arms whatsoever until you
matriculate a set at the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland
in Dublin. (If
you use the Arms of someone else then you are usurping Arms,
if you make up your own Arms, then you are using bogus Arms.)
The
legal position is quite simple ... Arms belong to the person
who records them and the heirs of that person according to the
limitations of the Grant or of tailzie.
However, whereas in England, the right to a “coat of
arms’ passes to all male descendents of the grantee, in
Ireland and Scotland a “coat of arms” is considered to be
heritable property and thus can only belong to one person at a
time. This means
that the younger sons of a grantee have no direct right to
inherit the Arms until elder branches of the family have died
out. All younger
sons must rematriculate the Arms with a difference in order to
possess legal Arms.
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The
Patron Saint of Clann O DubhGhaill/Clan Doyle
is Saint
Patrick.
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Today most people have
"family" names or
surnames which enable them to
trace their ancestors back for
generations, or longer if there
are adequate records, to a
particular part of the world.
However there are only a few
who find there is a living and
active organisation of their own
kinfolk representing all strands
of the family, wherever they may
be located, waiting to welcome
them.
The Clann O DubhGhaill/Clan
Doyle exists to continue
to carry out its traditional
functions and to perpetuate the
Gaelic Irish heritage in the
changing conditions of modern
society. The Clan also provides
an organisation structure
through which members can get
together for social purposes, to
celebrate Irish Feast Days and
have the Clan represented at
Irish & Celtic Gatherings
and Festivals. It fosters a
sense of kinship between Doyle
clans people all over the world,
and encourages interest in the
history, arts, literature,
music, customs, and traditions
of the Doyles who have descended
from Ireland. The Clan collects
genealogies and family
traditions of its members &
supporters and provides a
permanent repository for
records, relics and material
associated with the Clan for
mutual benefit.
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Order of St Patrick 1 |
Origin
Of This Cross
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The 'Duke of Leinster' theory:
The arms of the Duke of
Leinster, the highest-ranking member of the
Irish aristocracy, were a red saltire on a
white field and the duke was a founding
member of the Order of St Patrick. This
theory holds that the Order may have
included the duke's arms in its regalia as a
compliment to him, but the contemporary
sources contain nothing to support this
view.
He was the second, but eldest surviving,
son of James
FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster and the
well-connected Lady
Emily Mary Lennox. On 4 November 1775 he
married Hon. Emilia Olivia St. George,
daughter of St
George Saint-George, 1st Baron St George
and Elizabeth Dominick.[1]
He was also the elder brother of the 1790s
revolutionary Lord
Edward FitzGerald, and was a first
cousin of the English liberal politician Charles
James Fox.
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The 'St Patrick's-day
badge' theory:
It was a common custom, from at least the
early 17th to the mid-19th century, to wear
a cross made of paper or ribbon on 17 March,
St Patrick's day. The Saint Patrick's Cross
in the regalia of the order may have been
inspired by these popular badges. However,
surviving examples of such badges come in
many colours and they were invariably worn
upright - as equal-armed crosses rather than
as saltires.
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Whether there is a
link with the Duke of Leinster appears to be
unproven, but his family (the
FitzGeralds or Geraldines)
had borne arms of argent, a saltire gules
since early Norman times.
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Order of St Patrick 2 |
 
 
The Badge is George V's Diamond
Star. Made around 1890, The Star's centre has a
shamrock of emeralds, with the Saint's cross in rubies
on a diamond background. 'George, Prince of Wales,
April 1910' is engraved on the reverse
The Order's
motto was 'Quis Separabit MDCCLXXXIII' - 'Who will
separate us 1783'.
The badge of the Usher
of the Order
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Order of St Patrick
The Order of St Patrick
was founded in 1783, to reward those in high
office in Ireland and Irish peers on whose
support the government of the day depended.
It therefore served as the national Order of
Ireland as the Garter was for England and
the Thistle for Scotland. The Order lapsed
in 1974 with the death of the last surviving
recipient, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
Originally, the number of
Knights of St Patrick was 15, and this
increased to 22 in 1833. The Knights wore
mantles of sky-blue satin, and the star of
the Order was embroidered in silver on the
right breast.
The Order's most famous
insignia were the badge and star used by the
Lords Lieutenant; these were made available
for the serving Lord Lieutenant's use in
1830 by William IV. The insignia were made
from 394 stones taken in part from some of
Queen Charlotte's jewellery and from one of
the Order of the Bath Badges which had
belonged to her husband George III. Known as
the 'Irish Crown Jewels', the insignia were
stolen from Dublin Castle in 1907 and never
recovered.
The Order effectively went
into abeyance with the establishment of the
Irish Free State in 1922.
Order of St
Patrick - George IV's Sovereign's Sash Badge
(on left), made in 1812. In the centre is a
green enamelled shamrock, each leaf with a
diamond five-arched crown, set on a red
enamelled cross of St Patrick. The Badge has
a swivel suspension loop of eight diamonds,
and the reverse has the same design in
coloured enamel and gold.
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