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Ancient history of the kingdom of Kerry (Friar O'Sullivan of Muckross Abbey)
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O'Sullivan [Friar of Muckross Abbey]O'Sullivan ... Friar of Muckross Abbey
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History of Kerry written in English and compiled in c.1750 by Friar O'Sullivan of Muckross Abbey, possibly using 16th-century sources.
Britannia (William Camden)
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Camden (William)
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Camden (William)
(d. 1623)
English antiquarian and author, known best for his Britannia.
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Foras feasa ar Éirinn
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Keating (Geoffrey)
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Keating (Geoffrey)
(c.1580–1644)
Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn
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The prose history of Ireland completed by Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) in c. 1634. Comprising an introduction, two books and appendices, it narrates the history of the island from the time of Creation to the Norman conquest in the 12th century. As set out by the vindicatory introduction (an díonbhrollach), the work was written in response to the cultural biases of Anglo-centric writers (e.g. William Camden and Edmund Spenser).
Illustrium maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium
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Bale (John)
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Bale (John)
(1495–1563)
English protestant churchman; bishop of Ossory (1552/3); antiquarian and collector of manuscripts; author of a number of polemical plays, such as Kynge Johan, and an autobiographical work called The Vocacyon of Johan Bale.
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The first published version of John Bale's chronological catalogue of British and other authors.
Index Britanniae scriptorum
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Bale (John)
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Bale (John)
(1495–1563)
English protestant churchman; bishop of Ossory (1552/3); antiquarian and collector of manuscripts; author of a number of polemical plays, such as Kynge Johan, and an autobiographical work called The Vocacyon of Johan Bale.
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John Bale's catalogue of British and other authors as it appears in his notebook. Unlike his two published catalogues, this version is alphabetically arranged.
Insulae Sandae brevis descriptio (Edmund MacCana)
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MacCana (Edmund)
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MacCana (Edmund)
(fl. 1640s)
A Franciscan friar known chiefly as the author of an Itinerary of Ireland (written in c.1644) and an account of Sanda Island.
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Latin account of Sanda Island by the Franciscan friar Edmund MacCana.
Itinerarium in Hibernia (Edmund MacCana)
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MacCana (Edmund)
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MacCana (Edmund)
(fl. 1640s)
A Franciscan friar known chiefly as the author of an Itinerary of Ireland (written in c.1644) and an account of Sanda Island.
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A Latin account of an itinerary through Ireland written in mid-1640s by the Franciscan friar Edmund MacCana.
Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia
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O'Flaherty (Roderic)
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O'Flaherty (Roderic)
(1627/30–1716/18)
Roderic(k) O'Flaherty / Ruaidhrí (Óg) Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish nobleman, historian and collector of manuscripts; author of Ogygia seu rerum Hibernicarum chronologia (1685).
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The description of Penbrokshire (George Owen of Henllys)
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Owen (George) [of Henllys]
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Owen (George) ... of Henllys
(c.1552–c.1613)
Welsh clergyman in the Church of England, antiquarian, genealogist and cartographer.
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A work on the antiquities of Pembrokeshire, written by George Owen between 1602 and 1603. It remained unpublished until Richard Fenton printed it, in two parts, in The Cambrian Register.
Two bokes of the histories of Ireland (Edmund Campion)
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Campion (Edmund)
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Campion (Edmund)
(1540–1581)
English Jesuit priest and martyr, son of a London-based bookseller; one-time tutor to Richard Stanihurst in Ireland and author of Two bokes of the histories of Ireland (1571). Because his preaching activities in various parts of England were deemed dangerous and political by Anglican authorities, he was arrested on the charge of high treason and finally, hanged, drawn and quartered.
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An English-language history of Ireland, in two parts, written within a short period of time in 1571 by English Jesuit Edmund Campion (1540–1581) and first published by James Ware in 1633. Campion hoped it would prove to the earl of Leicester that he made good use of his time in Ireland and encourage antiquarians to build on his work. However, when in 1577 Holinshed expressed an interest in the work, Campion objected it was not fit for reading let alone publication.
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