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Cambrensis eversus

Incoming data

A printed work by Irish priest John Lynch (Gratianus Lucius) on the history of Ireland. It was published in 1662.

Sources

Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

Original publication

[printed book] Lynch, John [Gratianus, Lucius], Cambrensis eversus, seu potius historica fides in rebus hibernicis Giraldo Cambrensi abrogata, (Saint Malo), 1662.

Editions

[ed.] Lynch, John, and Matthew Kelly [ed. and tr.], Cambrensis eversus, seu potius Historica fides in rebus Hibernicis Giraldo Cambrensi abrogata, vol. 1, Dublin: for the Celtic Society, 1848.

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[ed.] Lynch, John, and Matthew Kelly [ed. and tr.], Cambrensis eversus, seu potius historica fides in rebus Hibernicis Giraldo Cambrensi abrogata, vol. 2, Dublin: for the Celtic Society, 1850.

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[ed.] Lynch, John, and Matthew Kelly [ed. and tr.], Cambrensis eversus, seu potius Historica fides in rebus Hibernicis Giraldo Cambrensi abrogata, vol. 3, Dublin: for the Celtic Society, 1851–1852.

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Secondary sources (select)

Breatnach, Liam, A companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici, Early Irish Law Series, 5, Dublin: DIAS, 2005.

A companion to D. A. Binchy, CIH (1978). Review article: Neil McLeod, ‘Review,A true companion to the Corpus iuris Hibernici’, Peritia 19 (2005).

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Cunningham, Bernadette, “Representations of king, parliament and the Irish people in Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn and John Lynch’s Cambrensis eversus (1662)”, in: Jane H. Ohlmeyer [ed.], Political thought in seventeenth-century Ireland: kingdom or colony, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 131–154.

Leerssen, Joep, Mere Irish and Fíor-Ghael: studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its development and literary expression prior to the nineteenth century, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1986.

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