Janus: Geoffrey Keating: 'History of Ireland' (transcribed by Diarmuid O'Mulchaoine)

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Geoffrey Keating: 'History of Ireland' (transcribed by Diarmuid O'Mulchaoine)

Title	Geoffrey Keating: 'History of Ireland' (transcribed by Diarmuid O'Mulchaoine)
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.619
Creator	Keating, Geoffrey, ? 1580-1644
Covering Dates	1770
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Keating [Keting], Geoffrey [Seathrún Céitinn] (? 1580-1644) Roman Catholic priest and historian

Transcribed for the Revd Morgan O'Brien, parish priest of Newcastle, Co. Limerick. The original first went into circulation in manuscript in 1634.

Marginal subheadings in English, in O'Mulchaoine's hand.

Flyleaf: note on Keating's chapel at Tubrid, by J. O'Donovan, Clonmel, 1840. A few notes by O'Donovan elsewhere in the text.

Belonged to Dr J. H. Todd. Purchased at his sale, Dublin, Nov. 1869, lot 1412.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Geoffrey Keating: 'History of Ireland' (transcribed by Diarmuid O'Mulchaoine), MS Add.619

Further information

Complete Irish text first published by Irish Texts Society, London, 1902-14.

See Catalogue of Irish MSS. in Cambridge Libraries, pp. 3-4.

Index Terms

Ireland

Keating, Geoffrey (? 1580-1644)

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