Dermot MacDermot

Education

MacDermot attended Stonyhurst College as a lad, and went on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar.

Career

Sir Dermot MacDermot had served as British Ambassador to Indonesia (1956-1959) and Thailand (1961-1965). lieutenant is commonly held to be one of the best - if not the best - books dealing with the origins, history and descent of a Gaelic family. At over five hundred pages it chronicles in depth yet with clarity the affairs of the Kings of Moylurg and their neighbours over the course of six hundred years, and the story of many different MacDermot families from the time the kingdom ceased to exist up to the 20th century.

lieutenant contains thirty-five family trees concerning MacDermots and their related families, and ten fascinating appendices.

Achievements

• His outstanding achievement towards the Macdermot clan was his definitive account of the family, "MacDermot of Moylurg: The Story of a Connacht Family".