sir_crispin_gaylord@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > GSI.Secretary@familyhistory.ie wrote: > >>Greetings from the Genealogical Society of Ireland www.familyhistory.ie >> >>A Chairde, >> >>The Arms presented to the new President of the Genealogical Society of >>Ireland are now uploaded to the Society's website > > > Sir > > Have these arms been granted by lawful authority? Or has your > organisation decided to aggrandise itself by unilaterally assuming > these arms? > Welcome back, Crispy old chum - I believe you have been travelling in the interior. As for 'lawful authority', I fear that there is none such at present for purposes of granting arms in the Republic of Ireland. Meaning that the natives are going to have to revert to the practice of rustling up their own arms, as you know was formerly the case until the Tudor sovereigns brought the light of good governance to the wild Irish. And of course since Terence stepped down, there is really no-one in a position to monitor the use of the stag trippant gules by those who bear the surname MacCarthy. Sean Murphy An Irish Arms Crisis http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/chiefs/armscrisis.htm