29-808: Four Masters may refer to: Annals of the Four Masters , a chronicle of medieval Irish history Four Masters GAA , a GAA club in County Donegal Four Masters of the Yuan Dynasty , four famous painters during the Yuan Dynasty era in China Four Masters of the Ming Dynasty , four famous painters during the Ming Dynasty era in China Topics referred to by
58-731: A building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane . The mission of the National Library of Ireland is "To collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge." The library is a reference library and, as such, does not lend. It has a large quantity of Irish and Irish-related material which can be consulted without charge; this includes books, maps , manuscripts , music, newspapers, periodicals and photographs. Included in its collections are materials issued by private as well as government publishers. Among
87-945: A copyright library for the UK and Ireland, a status it retains). The National Cultural Institutions Act 1997 mandated that the National Library of Ireland (NLI) collect all materials relating to Ireland to provide an accurate record of Irish output. The library holds over 12 million items. The main collection is a combination of stock transferred from the Royal Dublin Society, including the Joly collection (25,000 volumes), later acquisitions, and copyright deposits of most printed, and some other, works published in Ireland since 1927. The library purchases content from Northern Ireland, and attempts to collect all publications in Irish, and acquires
116-677: A house of refuge by the River Drowes in County Leitrim, just outside Ballyshannon, and it was here, according to others, that the Annals were compiled. The patron of the project was Fearghal Ó Gadhra , MP , a Gaelic lord of Coolavin , County Sligo. The chief compiler of the annals was Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh from Ballyshannon , who was assisted by, among others, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh , Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire and Cú Choigríche Ó Duibhgeannáin . Although only one of
145-551: A limited supply from further afield. The book collection numbers around 1 million volumes, principally sourced from the RDS legacy and legal deposit copies. Other major collections include serials (recurrent publications other than newspapers, including magazines, journals and annual reports), maps and drawings, Government and other public sector publications, manuscripts, and original and microfilmed newspapers. The NLI holds over 2,785 subject items related to 20th century Irish poets, and
174-543: A number of other services including genealogy research tools and support. The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media is the member of the Government of Ireland responsible for the library. The main library building is on Kildare Street , adjacent to Leinster House and the archaeology section of the National Museum of Ireland . The library building, as well as its sister building
203-544: Is a major source for poetry by Irish writers. The National Library of Ireland houses collections of archival papers, including personal notes and work books, of eminent writers including: The National Library of Ireland houses the Sheehy Skeffington Papers, a collection of articles, books, poems, and other materials of Irish writers and activists, Francis Sheehy Skeffington , and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington . These writings offer an understanding into
232-677: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Annals of the Four Masters The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland ( Middle Irish : Annála Ríoghachta Éireann ) or the Annals of the Four Masters ( Annála na gCeithre Máistrí ) are chronicles of medieval Irish history . The entries span from the Deluge , dated as 2,242 years after creation to AD 1616. Due to
261-614: The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media ) and on 3 May 2005 became an autonomous cultural institution under the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997. By 1993, the Mount Charles sandstone which had been used to face the library building (as well as that of National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology ) had begun to break up through the "precipitation of salts within
290-478: The National Library of Ireland . The first substantial English translation (starting at AD 1171) was published by Owen Connellan in 1846. The Connellan translation included the annals from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. The only version to have a four-colour frontispiece, it included a large folding map showing the location of families in Ireland. This edition, neglected for over 150 years,
319-476: The National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology which mirrors it across the front of Leinster House , were erected in 1890 and faced with Leinster granite, while "buff-coloured micaceous Mount Charles sandstone from Donegal was used on the upper sotreys and for dressings around the doors and windows." According to Wyse Jackson, curator of the Geological Museum at Trinity College Dublin, over 3,000 tons of
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#1732765180699348-486: The 1880s which recorded baptisms, marriages and some burials. The original collection was preserved on microfilm and later was provided online. In 2010, the National Library of Ireland began a collaborative effort in a new website, the National Archive of Irish Composers, which was designed to develop a free online comprehensive collection of the sheet music of 18th and 19th century Irish composers. As of 2021,
377-709: The Library should operate under the superintendence of a Council of twelve Trustees, eight of whom were appointed by the Society and four by the Government; this Agreement also conferred on the Trustees the duty of appointing the officers of the Library. This arrangement remained in place until the library became an autonomous cultural institution in 2005. After the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1924/5
406-642: The Library was transferred to the Department of Education under which it remained until 1986 when it was transferred to the Department of the Taoiseach . In 1927 the Library was granted legal deposit status under the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act 1927. In 1992 responsibility for the Library was transferred to the newly established Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht (now
435-562: The authors, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, was a Franciscan friar , they became known as "the Four Friars" or in the original Irish, na Ceithre Máistrí . The Anglicized version of this was "the Four Masters", the name that has become associated with the annals themselves. The annals are written in Irish. The several manuscript copies are held at Trinity College Dublin , the Royal Irish Academy , University College Dublin , and
464-427: The breakdown of the ferrous cement used to bind the sand grains together". Wyse Jackson made the note that the same rock had not been broken down by the atmosphere or pollutants in its native County Donegal where a number of buildings constructed as early as 1820 were still extant. The library is governed by a board, with day-to-day management in the hands of a director and a number of heads of functions. Directors of
493-513: The chasm between Christian world-chronology and the prehistory of Ireland". The appendix of volume 6 contains pedigrees of a small selection of the Gaelic Irish nobility, pp. 2377 ff. National Library of Ireland The National Library of Ireland (NLI; Irish : Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann ) is Ireland 's national library located in Dublin , in
522-478: The criticisms by 17th-century Irish historian Tuileagna Ó Maol Chonaire , the text was not published in the lifetimes of any of the participants. The annals are mainly a compilation of earlier annals, although there is some original work. They were compiled between 1632 and 1636, allegedly in a cottage beside the ruins of Donegal Abbey , just outside Donegal Town . At this time, however, the Franciscans had
551-462: The early chapters are essentially lists of names and dates, the later chapters, dealing with events of which the authors had first-hand accounts, are much more detailed. As a historical source, the Annals are largely limited to the accounts of the births, deaths and activities of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland and the wider social trends or events are up for contemporary historians to establish. On
580-532: The fabric of the rock". The sandstone had been badly affected by the coal-polluted atmosphere in Dublin over the century it had remained in situ, and was replaced in the 1960s by a grey limestone from Ardbraccan , County Meath . As of 1993, Wyse Jackson noted that "Close examinations of the stone remaining on the National Museum shows obvious decay and exfoliation of the outer layers of the rock, caused by
609-740: The goal of its writers was to provide an epic history for Ireland that could compare to that of the Israelites or the Romans, and which reconciled native myth with the Christian view of history. It is suggested, for example, that there are six 'takings' to match the Six Ages of the World . Medievalist academic Mark Williams writes of Lebor Gabála Érenn that it is a "highly influential Middle Irish prose-and-verse treatise [...] written in order to bridge
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#1732765180699638-697: The influence of the Francis and Hanna Skeffington in early 20th Century Irish culture and thought as well as insight into their family life. The library also holds the Cooper Collection. Austin Cooper (1759–1831) was a County Tipperary clerk who produced numerous sketches of Irish antiquities which were preserved by his great grandson. The Cooper Collection also contains drawings by other artists including Francis Wheatley . The Library also maintains an online index of all Catholic parish registers up to
667-410: The library announced that Audrey Whitty , deputy director of the National Museum of Ireland , would assume the office of director in early 2023. The collection began with the transfer of books and papers from the Royal Dublin Society, and was significantly boosted by the addition of the library as a copyright library for Ireland from 1927 (by contrast, the library of Trinity College Dublin was already
696-457: The library have included Thomas William Lyster (1895-1920), Robert Lloyd Praeger (1920–24), Richard Irvine Best (1924–40), Richard J. Hayes (1940-67), Michael Hewson (1982–1988), Patricia Donlon (1989–97), Brendan O'Donoghue (1997–2003), Aongus Ó hAonghusa (2003–09), Fiona Ross (2010-2014), and Sandra Collins (2015–21). After a period under an acting director, in December 2022,
725-718: The library's major holdings are an archive of Irish newspapers and collections donated by individual authors or their estates. The library is also the ISSN National Centre for Ireland. The office of the Chief Herald of Ireland , the National Photographic Archive and the Museum of Literature Ireland are functions of the library, the latter in partnership with University College Dublin . The library also holds exhibitions , and provides
754-781: The other hand, the Annals , as one of the few prose sources in Irish from this period, also provide a valuable insight into events such as the Desmond Rebellions and the Nine Years War from a Gaelic Irish perspective. The early part of this work is based upon the Lebor Gabála . Today, most scholars regard the Lebor Gabála as primarily a myth rather than history. It appears to be mostly based on medieval Christian pseudo-histories, but it also incorporates some of Ireland's native pagan mythology. Scholars believe
783-420: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Four Masters . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Four_Masters&oldid=978027421 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
812-619: The sandstone were transported to Dublin and dressed on site. The National Library of Ireland was established by the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act 1877, which provided that the bulk of the collections in the possession of the Royal Dublin Society , should be vested in the then Department of Science and Art for the benefit of the public and of the Society, and for the purposes of the Act. An Agreement of 1881 provided that
841-452: Was republished in the early twenty-first century. The original Connellan translation was followed in the 1850s by a full translation by the historian John O'Donovan . The translation was funded by a government grant of £1,000 obtained by the notable mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton while he was president of the Royal Irish Academy . The Annals are one of the principal Irish-language sources for Irish history up to 1616. While many of
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