Foras feasa ar Éirinn
form undefined
Keating (Geoffrey)
Keating (Geoffrey)
(c.1580–1644)
Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn

See more
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).
Prima etas mundi (Irish tract)
prose
An Irish prose tract on the first five ‘ages of the world’ and synchronisms of Irish prehistory with Assyrian, Greek and Roman history.