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Zoilomastix

Philip OʼSullivan Beare
  • Latin
  • prose
  • Modern sources on Ireland
The Zoilomastix (c. 1625/6) by Philip O'Sullivan Beare, a defence of Ireland against the views of Giraldus Cambrensis (as published by William Camden at Frankfurt in 1602) and Richard Stanihurst. The work was unpublished and remained in manuscript form.
Title
Zoilomastix
In full: Philippi OSulleuani Bearri Hiberni Vindiciae Hibernicae contra Giraldum Cambrensem et alios vel Zoilomastigis liber primus, 2, 3, 4 et 5 et contra Stanihurstum
Author
O'Sullivan Beare (Philip)
O'Sullivan Beare (Philip)
(d. 1634 or after)
Irish historian and author, of the O'Sullivans of Beare and Bantry, who lived as an exile in Spain and Portugal, following the Nine Years’ War and the Irish defeat at Kinsale. He wrote a number of Latin treatises on subjects of Irish interest.
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Manuscripts
Language
  • Latin
Date
c. 1625/6
Form
prose (primary)

Classification

Modern sources on IrelandModern sources on Ireland
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Contents

Liber 1

Summary:
Vindication in reply to Giraldus Cambrensis

Liber 2

Summary:
Vindication in reply to Giraldus Cambrensis

Liber 3

Summary:
Vindication in reply to Giraldus Cambrensis

Liber 4

Summary:
Vindication in reply to Giraldus Cambrensis

Liber 5

Summary:
Vindication in reply to Richard Stanihurst

Appendix

Summary:
List of Irish flora, fauna (birds, fishes and other animals) and minerals, with names given in Irish, Spanish and Latin
» Comments: Ed., with Tomás de Bhaldraithe, in the appendix to the introduction of Thomas J. O'Donnell, Selections from the Zoilomastix of Philip O'Sullivan Beare (1960): xxxvii–liv

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[ed.] OʼDonnell, Thomas J. [ed.], Selections from the Zoilomastix of Philip O'Sullivan Beare, Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1960.
An edition of selections from the work. The ?complete work was edited in the author's dissertation thesis.
[tr.] OʼSullivan, Denis C., The natural history of Ireland: included in Book One of the Zoilomastix (1625) by Philip O’Sullivan Beare, Cork: Cork University Press, 2009.
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