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A Treatise of Ireland

Author: John Dymmok

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Richard Butler

Electronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

Proof corrections by Beatrix Färber, Janet Crawford, Donal Whelan

Funded by University College Cork, School of History

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 32680 words

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(2012)

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Text ID Number: E590000-001

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Sources

    Manuscript source
  1. London, BL, Harley 1291. Butler describes it as "a small quarto, on paper, written about the year 1600".
    Internet availability
  1. The text is available in .pdf format at http://www.archive.org.
    Works mentioned by Butler
  1. Richard Stanihurst, 'Description of Ireland', in: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles (London 1577).
  2. William Camden, Topographia Hiberniae (Frankfurt 1602).
  3. William Camden, Britannia [in Latin] (London 1610). The first translation into English by Philemon Holland was published in 1610. (A full critical edition in Latin and English is available at http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/cambrit/). A second edition, translated into English, with additions and improvements was published by Dr Edmund Gibson 1722.
  4. Fynes Moryson, An itinerary, containing his ten yeeres travell through the twelve dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland & Ireland. (London 1617).
  5. O'Sullivan Beare, Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium (Lisbon 1621). (Available in .pdf format on www.archive.org.)
  6. Meredith Hanmer, Edmund Campion, & Edmund Spenser, The historie of Ireland, collected by three learned authors [...]. (Dublin 1633).
  7. Thomas Hearne (ed), Guilielmi Camdeni Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha: tribus voluminibus comprehensi: e codice praeclaro Smithiano, propria auctoris manu correcto [...] (Oxford 1717).
  8. Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People). Issued by John and George Smith (Cambridge 1722). [It is not clear which edition Butler used.]
  9. Fynes Moryson, A History of Ireland from the year 1599 to 1603: with a short narration of the state of the kingdom from the year 1169; to which is added a description of Ireland. 2 vols. Dublin 1735. [A reprint of part 2 and 3, Book 3, chapter 5 of the Itinerary. The Description is at the end of volume 2].
  10. Edmund Spenser, A view of the state of Ireland as it was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth: written by way of dialogue between Eudoxus and Ireneus [...] to which is prefix'd the author's life, and an index added (Dublin 1763).
  11. Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People). Edited by Joseph Stevenson (London 1838). [It is not clear which edition Butler used.]
    Further reading
  1. Barnaby Rich, New description of Ireland (London 1610).
  2. Edmund Spenser, A View of the present State of Ireland. (Online at https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E500000-001/index.html), with further bibliographic details.
  3. Sir Henry Piers, 'A Chorographical description of the County of Westmeath, written A.D. 1682 by Sir Henry Piers, of Tristernaght, Baronet,' in: Charles Vallancy, Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis, vol. 1. (Dublin: Thomas Ewing) 1770.
  4. Robert Payne, 'A Briefe description of Ireland: made in this year, 1589', in: Aquilla Smith (ed), Tracts relating to Ireland, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society, vol 1 (Dublin 1841) 3–14. (online at https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E590001-007/index.html).
  5. John O'Donovan (ed), Annals of the Four Masters, vol 6 (Dublin 1848–51, re-issued 1856) 2125–2133.
  6. Henry Docwura, A Narration of the services done by the army ymployed to Lough-Foyle [...], ed. John O'Donovan, Miscellany of the Celtic Society, vol. 1 (Dublin 1849) 233–286.
  7. Charles Hughes, Shakespeare's Europe. Unpublished Chapters of Fynes Moryson's Itinerary: being a Survey of the Condition of Europe at the end of the Sixteenth Century. With an Introduction and an Account of Fynes Moryson's Career. London: Sherratt & Hughes 1903 [for chapters on Ireland see especially pp 185–260; 285–289; 481–486].
  8. Aidan Clarke, Pacification, Plantation and the Catholic Question, in: T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin and F.J. Byrne (eds.), A New History of Ireland, Vol. 3: Early Modern Ireland, 1534–1691 (Oxford 1976; 1989).
  9. Nicholas P. Canny, Reformation to Restoration: Ireland 1534–1660 (Dublin 1987).
  10. Graham Kew (ed), The Irish sections of Fynes Moryson's unpublished itinerary, Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission 1998 [first published in Analecta Hibernica 37 (1995/1996) 1–137].
  11. David Edwards, (eds), Regions and rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650: Essays for Kenneth Nicholls (Dublin 2004).
  12. Paul MacCotter, Medieval Ireland: territorial, political and economic divisions (Dublin 2008).
  13. John A. Murphy and Emer Purcell, The Desmond Survey. Electronic edition, online at https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E580000-001/index.html), with further bibliographic details (Cork 2009).
  14. Katherine Simms, 'Gaelic military history and the later Brehon Law commentaries', in: Cathal G. Ó Háinle and Donald E. Meek (eds.), Unity in Diversity: Studies in Irish and Scottish Gaelic Language, Literature and History, Trinty Irish Studies, No. 1, 51–67.
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Richard Butler, A Treatice of Ireland, by John Dymmok. Now first published from a MS. preserved in the British Museum, with Notes, by the Rev. Richard Butler, A. B., M. R. I. A. in Tracts relating to Ireland. , Dublin, University Press, Graisberry and Gill (1843) volume 2page 1–85

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Created: by John Dymmok (1599)

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Language: [EN] The text is in late sixteenth-century English.
Language: [LA] Some phrases in the text and editorial footnotes are in Latin.
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