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A description of Ireland: A.D. 1618

Author: Thomas Gainsford

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Luke McInerney

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1. First draft.

Extent of text: 3360 words

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(2013)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E610006

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Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only. CELT is very grateful to Luke McInerney and the editor of 'The Other Clare', Ristéard Ua Cróinín, for their permission to make this text available with modernized spelling on CELT.

Sources

    Internet Links
  1. Luke McInerney has a webpage with further articles (including the full text of this one) on http://independent.academia.edu/LukeMcInerney.
  2. You will find the website of the journal The Other Clare at http://www.duchasnasionna.eu/other_clare/journal.html.
    Editions
  1. Thomas Gainsford, 'A description of Ireland: A.D. 1618', in: The Glory of England, or a true Description of many excellent Prerogatives and remarkable Blessings whereby she triumpheth over all the Nations of the World (London: E. Griffin for E. Whittakers) 1618. [Revised 1619, re-issued 1620].
    Literature
  1. John Dymmok, 'A treatice of Ireland. Edited by Richard Butler', Tracts relating to Ireland 2, 1–90, Irish Archaeological Society (Dublin 1843). (Available on CELT).
  2. Sir Josias Bodley, A Visit to Lecale, in the County of Down, in the year 1602–3 (=Descriptio Itineris ad Lecaliam in Ultonia), ed. and trans. by William Reeves, Ulster Journal of Archaeology 1854, vol. ii, 73–99. (Available on CELT).
  3. Thomas Gainsford, The True Exemplary and Remarkable History of the Earl of Tirone: dedicated to the Earl of Clanricarde; of no great value, but interesting as a nearly contemporary record (London 1619).
  4. William Lithgow, Rare Adventures in Ireland in 1619, in: William Lithgow, The totall discourse of the rare adventures & painefull peregrinations of long nineteene years travayles from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica. 1606. Reprinted 1632.
  5. 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 and Ireland (London 1617, repr. 4 vols. Glasgow 1907–8).
  6. Edmund Hogan (ed.), The Description of Ireland, and the State thereof as it is at this present, in anno 1598 (Dublin 1878).
  7. Fynes Moryson, A history of Ireland from the year 1599 to 1603 (2 vols. Dublin 1735).
  8. Philip O'Sullivan-Beare, Historiae catholicae Iberniae compendium (Lisbon 1621).
  9. George Carew, A discourse of the present state of Ireland, 1614, per S. C., in: Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica: or a select collection of State Papers, vol. 1 (Dublin 1772) 430–440. (Available on CELT).
  10. M. J. Byrne, Ireland under Elizabeth (Dublin 1903) [An English translation of Philip O'Sullivan Beare, Historiae Catholicae Iberniae Compendium. Available on CELT]
  11. William Camden, Annales rerum anglicarum et hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha (Leiden 1625).
  12. Paul Walsh (ed &trans.), Beatha Aodha Ruaidh Uí Dhomhnaill, as Leabhar Lughaidh Uí Chlérigh [The Life of Aodh Ruadh O Domhnaill from the book of Lughaidh Ó Clérigh], 2 vols. (Dublin 1948). (Available on CELT).
  13. Constantia Maxwell, The stranger in Ireland: from the reign of Elizabeth to the Great Famine (London 1954).
  14. Mark Eccles, 'Thomas Gainsford, 'Captain Pamphlet'', Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 45, No. 4 (Autumn 1982) 259–270.
  15. Andrew Hadfield and John McVeagh (eds.), Strangers to that land: British perceptions of Ireland from the reformation to the famine. Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire 1994.
  16. Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel, A German visitor to Monaincha in 1591, Tipperary Historical Journal (1998) 223–233. (The diary of German nobleman Ludolf von Münchhausen describing the Island of the Living is availbe at CELT.)
  17. Nicholas Canny, (ed), Making Ireland British, 1580–1650 (Oxford 2001).
  18. John A. Murphy and Emer Purcell, The Desmond Survey. Electronic edition online at https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E580000-001/index.html) (Cork 2009).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Luke McInerney, A description of Ireland: A.D. 1618 in The Other Clare. , Shannon, The Shannon Archaeological & Historical Society (2012) volume 36page 33–37: 35–37

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The electronic edition covers the appendix of the article on pages 35–37 of the text.

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Text has been proof-read by the editor, Luke McInerney.

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The electronic text represents the edited text. The spelling has been modernized by the editor.

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Profile Description

Created: by Thomas Gainsford (1566–1624) (1618)

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in seventeenth-century English.
Language: [LA] Some words are in Latin.
Language: [GA] Some words are in Irish, albeit in anglicized form.

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