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

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Scope and Content

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.

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Acquisition Information

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

Other Finding Aids

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

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Bibliography

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

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