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The Woods of Ireland

Author: Caesar Litton Falkiner

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    Further Reading
  1. Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hibernica, 1188: J. F. Dimock (ed.) Topographia Hibernica et expugnatio Hibernica, Rolls Series 21. Vol. 5 of Giraldi Cambrensis Opera. London 1867.
  2. Barnaby Rich, New Description of Ireland, London 1610.
  3. William Camden, Britannia (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. Meredith Hanmer, The chronicle of Ireland. Collected by Meredith Hanmer in the yeare 1571. (Dublin 1633). Available online as a very large .pdf file at http://www.archive.org/details/irelandchronicles00hanmuoft.
  5. Sir George Carew, Earl of Totnes, Sir Thomas Stafford: Pacata Hibernia. Ireland appeased and reduced. Or, an historie of the late warres of Ireland, especially within the province of Mounster, under the government of Sir George Carew, Knight, then Lord President of that province, and afterwards Lord Carew of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. Wherein the siedge of Kinsale, the defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his armie; the expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila, the Spanish generall, with his forces; and many other remarkeable passages of that time are related. Illustrated with seventeene severall mappes, for the better understanding of the storie. (London 1633). [Reprinted, ed. Standish Hayes O'Grady, Pacata Hibernia, or A history of the wars in Ireland during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 2 vols. (London 1896).]
  6. Gerard Boate, Ireland's Naturall History, London 1652. Chetham Society. [Reprinted as 'Gerard Boate's natural history of Ireland', edited with an introduction by Thomas E. Jordan (New York 2006).]
  7. Stanley G. Mendyk, Gerard Boate and 'Irelands Naturall History'. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 115 (1985), 5–12.
  8. John Lynch, Cambrensis Eversus (St Malo 1662). [Reprinted, ed. M. Kelly. 3 vols. (Dublin 1848).]
  9. Sir Patrick Finglas, A Breviate of the Getting of Ireland and of the Decaie of the Same, in: Hibernica: or, some antient pieces relating to Ireland, ed. Walter Harris (Dublin: 1747)
  10. John Derricke, The image of Irelande: with a discoverie of woodkarne, 1581; with the notes of Sir Walter Scott, edited, with introduction, by John Small (Edinburgh 1883).
  11. Sir William Petty, The political anatomy of Ireland ... to which is added .. an account of the wealth and expences of England. London: Printed for D. Brown and W. Rogers 1691. [Reprinted as 'The political anatomy of Ireland: with the establishment for that kingdom, and verbum sapienti', introduction by J. O'Donovan. (Shannon: IUP 1970)].
  12. Robert Payne, 'A brief description of Ireland to XXV of his partners for whom he is undertaker, by Robert Payne, A.D. 1590,' ed. Aquila Smith, Tracts relating to Ireland, vol ii, Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society (Dublin 1841).
  13. Roderic O'Flaherty, A chorographical description of West or h-Iar Connaught, written A.D. 1684; ed. J. Hardiman (Dublin 1846).
  14. John Dymmok, 'A treatice of Ireland. Edited by Richard Butler', Tracts relating to Ireland vol ii, Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society (Dublin 1843), 1–90.
  15. Walter Harris, (ed.) Hibernica, or, some antient pieces relating to Ireland ... 2 vols. (Dublin 1747–1750).
  16. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county of Kerry. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof (Dublin 1774; reprinted Dublin/Cork: Mercier Press 1979).
  17. Arthur Young, A tour in Ireland: with general observations on the present state of the kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778, and brought down to the end of 1779. 2 vols. 1780. [Reprinted, with an introduction by J. B. Ruane, 2 vols. (Shannon: IUP 1970)].
  18. Sir William Betham, Origin and History of the Constitution of England and of the Early Parliaments of Ireland (Dublin 1834).
  19. William Edward Hartpole Lecky, A history of Ireland in the eighteenth century. 5 vols. New edition 1892–1896.
  20. P. W. Joyce, A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 volumes (New York, London, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, & Company. 1903).
  21. P. W. Joyce, The origin and history of Irish names of places. [Facs. of the original edition in 3 volumes published 1869-1913.] With a new introductory essay on P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. (Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke 1995).
  22. Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Stuarts and during the Interregnum. Vol. I: 1603–I642; Vol. II: 1642–1660; Vol.III: 1660–1690.(London 1909–1916). (A digital copy is available at www.archive.org.)
  23. A. C. Forbes, 'Some legendary and historical references to Irish woods and their significance', in: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 41 B (1932) 15–36.
  24. K.W. Nicholls, 'Anglo-French Ireland and after', in: Peritia 1 (1982) 372–74.
  25. J. R. Pilcher, Seán Mac An tSaoir (eds.), Woods, trees and forests in Ireland: proceedings of a seminar held on 22 and 23 February 1994. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1995.
  26. John McVeagh (ed.), Irish Travel Writing. A Bibliography. (Dublin 1996).
  27. K.W. Nicholls, Woodland cover in pre-modern Ireland, in: Patrick Duffy, David Edwards and Elizabeth Fitzpatrick (eds.), Gaelic Ireland, c.1250–1650: land, lordship and settlement (Dublin 2001) 181–206.
  28. Philip O'Sullivan Beare, The Natural History of Ireland, ed. by Denis C. O'Sullivan (Cork: Cork University Press 2009).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, mainly of the seventeenth century. C. Litton Falkiner (ed), First edition [xvii + 426 pages] Longmans Green, and Co.London, New York, Bombay (1904)

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Created: By C. Litton Falkiner (c. 1904)

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