The Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains
| Formation | 1991 |
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| Type |
Gaelic nobility Irish clans Gaelic culture |
| Headquarters | Ireland |
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Chairman
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Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill |
The Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains (Irish: Buanchomhairle Thaoisigh Éireann) is an organisation which was established to bring together the Chiefs of the Name of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland. As a republic, the Constitution of Ireland prohibits the conferring of "titles of nobility" by the state.
On 5 October 1991 sixteen of the nineteen "bloodline chiefs" were received at Áras an Uachtaráin by the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, along with the Chief Herald of Ireland and representation from the Irish Tourist Board. This was the first time in modern history that the bloodline chieftains of Ireland had gathered to form a council. The only other meeting of this kind to have taken place was before the Battle of Kinsale which took place in 1601 when a group of Irish chiefs met.
Maguire of Fermanagh, retired accountant Terence Maguire, was elected chairman of the Irish Chiefs Council for a three-year period while The O'Conor Don of Roscommon, retired businessman Denis O'Conor Don, was elected deputy-chairman.
In 1999, following a scandal, the Chief Herald of Ireland took advice from the Attorney General's Office that successions would no longer be given "courtesy recognition" or published in the Iris Oifigiúil. While some representatives had obtained courtesy recognition as Chiefs of the Name from the Chief Herald of Ireland, this practice was discontinued by 2003 - with the Attorney General noting that such recognitions were unconstitutional and without basis in law.
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