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Collection of Latin annals for the history of Ireland, from the arrival of Partholón up to the year 1600, compiled by Thady Dowling (d. 1628), an ecclesiastic and chancellor of Leighlin.

Manuscript witnesses

Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 574 
rubric: Thadei Dowling Annales a temp. Bartholini, Invasoris Hiberniae, ad A.D. 1600   incipit: BArtholones, aliter Bastolenus, Nini consanguineus ex successione Nemrodi in familia Japheti nepotis, venit in Hiberniam cum sua complici et cum suis tribus filiis   
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 574 
rubric: Thadei Dowling Annales a temp. Bartholini, Invasoris Hiberniae, ad A.D. 1600   

Sources

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[ed.] Butler, Richard, The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn and Thady Dowling: together with the Annals of Ross, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1849.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive: <link>, <link> Internet Archive – originally from Google: <link> CELT – Annals of Thady Dowling (incl. introduction): <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: <link> Digitale-sammlungen.de: View in Mirador
1–45 (text); i–xxiv (introduction, immediately preceding); 47–66 (index) [‘Thadei Dowling cancellarii Leiglen Annales Hiberniae’] direct link

Secondary sources (select)

Ware, James, De scriptoribus Hiberniae, Dublin, 1639.
Vossen, A. F., Two bokes of the histories of Ireland, compiled by Edmunde Campion, Assen: Van Gorcum, 1963.  
Publication of the author's dissertation for the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
Devotes some attention to Dowling's reliance on Edmund Campion's Two bokes of the histories of Ireland.