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Keating (Geoffrey)

  • c.1580–1644
  • Céitinn (Seathrún)
  • Irish poets, clergy, historians
  • (agents)
Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn
Keating, Geoffrey, and William Haliday [ed. and tr.], Forus feasa air Erinn: nar a nochtar priomhdhála na hInnse o Pharthalon, go Gabhaltus Gall = A complete history of Ireland, from the first colonization of the island by Parthalon, to the Anglo-Norman invasion, Dublin: John Barlow, 1811.  

An edition of the prologue and first part of Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn, along with an English translation.


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Reference works
McGuire, James [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009–present. URL: <https://www.dib.ie>.
Cunningham (Bernadette) [id. dib.004417.v1. ‘Keating, Geoffrey (Céitinn, Seathrún)’] direct link
Cunningham, Bernadette, The world of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth-century Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.
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