Geoffrey Keating
Seathrún Céitinn, known in
English as
Geoffrey Keating, was a
17th century Irish clergyman,
poet and
historian. He was born in Burgess, Ballylooby, just outside Cahir in County Tipperary in ca.
1569, and died ca.
1644. He is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill.
His major work,
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (literally "Foundation of Knowledge on Ireland", more usually translated "History of Ireland") was written in
Irish and completed ca.
1634, during the reign of
Charles I of England.
The
Foras Feasa traced the history of
Ireland from the creation of the world to the invasion of the
Normans in the
12th century, based on the rich native historical and pseudohistorical traditions (including that of the
Milesians), historical poetry, annals and ecclesiastical records. Ireland's English rulers discouraged
printing in Irish so the
Foras Feasa circulated in
manuscript.
*Bernadette Cunningham
The World of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth century Ireland (Dublin 2000).
*Geoffrey Keating
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn: the history of Ireland D.Comyn and P.S.Dineen (eds.) 4 vols. Irish Texts Society (London 1902-14).
*Geoffrey Keating
Trí bior-ghaoithe an bháis: The three shafts of death ed. Robert Atkinson, LL.D. Royal Irish Academy (Dublin: 1890);
*Geoffrey Keating
Stories from Keating's History of Ireland edited, with introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Osborn Bergin. Royal Irish Academy (Dublin: 1981)
*Geoffrey Keating
Dánta, Amhráin is Caointe (Poems, Songs and Elegies), ed. Rev. John C. MacErlean, S.J. The Gaelic League (Dublin: 1900)
*Geoffrey Keating
Eochairsciath an Aifrinn: An explanatory defence of the mass, ed. Patrick O'Brien (Dublin: 1898)
*Geoffrey Keating "History of Ireland: Foras Feasa ar Eirinn" trans. O'Mahoney. 3 vols. Irish Genealogical Foundation (1980)
*
The History of Ireland (
translation) of
Foras Feasa ar Éirinn at
University College Cork's
CELT- Corpus of Electronic Texts
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Catholic Encylopedia entry:
