www.Irishroots.com Irish Roots Cafe From the Irish Roots Cafe Broadcast Network Irish Roots Cafe Video Shorts. Number 5. Shownotes. The Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters. _________________________________________________________ Filmed live at the Irish Roots Festival workshops this year. Go to the link below to listen to all 5 of my broadcast series on iTunes ! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=299857025 Run Time: 02:53 A Rare Irish History Originally written in the Irish language, this book is also a year by year timeline of Irish history. The events are organized by year, sometimes noting the 'great wind' that caused much destruction, or the slaugher of O'Reilly by O'Rourke one year, and O'Rourke slaughtering O'Reilly the next..... How it came about The patron of the 'Four Masters' or 'Four Friars' declared that all the known history of Ireland be compiled in one work, so they went forward from Donegal to collect all the fragments of the old books that existed. This was in the early 17th century, and perhaps the last opportunity to do so before the final collapse of the Irish culture. Some of that history now survives only in in these annals. This is well recorded in the introduction to this work. See my blog at www.Irishroots.com for full show notes.