Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E900000-002

His Majesty's Castle of Dublin

Author: Caesar Litton Falkiner

Background details and bibliographic information

File Description

Electronic file compiled by Beatrix FärberProofed by Beatrix Färber and Benjamin Hazard

Funded by University College, Cork and
The President's Strategic Fund via the Writers of Ireland II Project.

1. First draft, revised and corrected.

Extent of text: 17000 words

Publication

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt

(2007)

Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E900000-002

Availability

Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.

Sources

    Further Reading
  1. 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.
  2. Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald de Barri), Topographia Hibernica et expugnatio Hibernica, Rolls Series 21. Vol. 5 of Giraldi Cambrensis Opera. (London 1867).
  3. James Henthorn Todd (ed.), Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh: The War of the Gaedhill with the Gaill, or, the invasions of Ireland by the Danes and other Norsemen. The original Irish text edited, with translation and introduction (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 48). (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, ). Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006.
  4. Roger de Hoveden [=Roger of Howden], Chronica magistri Rogeri de Hovedene, ed. W. Stubbs, 4 vols., Rolls Series, 51 (1868–71); especially vol. 2.
  5. H. S. Sweetman, G. F. Handcock, (eds.), Calendar of documents relating to Ireland, 1171–1307. 5 vols. 1875–86; esp. 1172–1251.
  6. Sir John Thomas Gilbert (ed.), Historic and municipal documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172–1320, from the archives of the city of Dublin, etc. (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, 53) 1870.
  7. James Hardiman (ed.). 'A statute of the fortieth year of King Edward III, enacted in a parliament held in Kilkenny, A.D. 1367, before Lionel, duke of Clarence, lord lieutenant of Ireland'. In Tracts relating to Ireland, 2 (Dublin, 1843): see especially Acts of Parliament at Trim, 1478. Act 12.
  8. Walter Harris, Voyage of Sir Richard Edgcumbe into Ireland in the year 1488, in: Hibernica, (Dublin 1747).
  9. William Monck Mason, The history and antiquities of the collegiate and cathedral church of St Patrick near Dublin, from its foundation in 1190 to the year 1819. (Dublin 1820).
  10. Sir William Betham, Dignities, feudal and parliamentary, and the constitutional legislature of the United Kingdom: the nature and functions of the aula regis, the magna concilia, and the communia concilia of England, and the history of the parliaments of France, England, Scotland, and Ireland, investigated and considered with a view to ascertain the origin, progress and final establishment of legislative parliaments and of the history of a peer or lord of parliament (Dublin and London, 1830). [No more volumes published. A revised edition, 'The origin and history of the constitution of England and of the early parliaments of Ireland', was published in 1834.]
  11. H. C. Hamilton, E. G. Atkinson, R. P. Mahaffy, Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, 1509–1603. 11 vols. 1860–1912; see esp. State Papers of Henry VIII. vol. 2. pt. 3, p. 169.
  12. James Morrin (ed.), Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth. 1: 6 Hen. VIII-18 Eliz. I; 2: 16 and 18-45 Eliz. I. 2 vols. (Dublin, 1861-62).
  13. John Derricke, The Image of Irelande (London 1581).
  14. Richard Stanihurst, De Rebus in Hibernia gestis (Antwerp 1584).
  15. Luke Gernon, A Discourse of Ireland, anno 1620, in: Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, mainly of the seventeenth century. C. Litton Falkiner (ed.) (London: Longmans Green, and Co., New York, Bombay 1904), 345–362. [Online at CELT as file E620001.]
  16. Travels of Sir William Brereton in Ireland, 1635, in: Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, mainly of the seventeenth century. C. Litton Falkiner (ed.), Longmans Green, and Co. London, New York, Bombay (1904), 363–407. [Online at CELT as file E630001.]
  17. Thomas Crofton Croker (ed.), The tour of the French traveller M. de La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland, A.D. 1644, ed. by Thomas Crofton Croker, with notes, and illustrative extracts, contributed by James Roche, Francis Mahony, Thomas Wright, and the editor. (London 1837). [=A translation of portions of "Les voyages et observations du sieur de la Boullaye Le Gouz ..." Paris, 1653.] [The translation is online at CELT as file T100076.]
  18. Richard Cox, Hibernia Anglicana; or the History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by the English to this present Time. With an Introductory Discourse touching the Ancient State of that Kingdom; and a new and Exact Map of the same, 2 vols. (London: H. Clark and Joseph Watts, 1689–90).
  19. William Knowler (ed.). The Earl of Strafforde's letters and despatches with an essay towards his life by Sir George Radcliffe ... (1739).
  20. T. Carte (ed.), Ormonde Papers ... 2 vols. (1739).
  21. The manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at the castle, Kilkenny. Historical Manuscripts Commission, (London 1895–99).
  22. Arthur Collins (ed.), Letters and memorials of state: in the reigns of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James, King Charles the First, part of the reign of King Charles the Second, and Oliver's usurpation, written and collected by Sir Henry Sidney ... Sir Philip Sidney and his brother Sir Robert Sidney; together with letters of the other ministers of state, with whom they held a correspondence ... Collected from records, their last wills and testaments, original papers, authentick manuscripts, and our most approved historians ... transcribed from the originals at Penshurst Place in Kent ... and his Majesty's office of papers and records. 2 vols. 1746.
  23. Walter Harris, The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin (1766). [Chapter 2, containing a short decription of the Castle of Dublin, is available online at http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/Harris/chapter2.htm.]
  24. John Lodge (ed.), Desiderata curiosa Hibernica, or a select collection of state papers; consisting of royal instructions, directions, dispatches and letters ... to which are added some historical tracts. 2 vols. Dublin, 1772.
  25. James Simon, Simon's essay on Irish coins. 2nd edn. Dublin, 1810.
  26. P. F. Moran, Cardinal (ed.), Spicilegium Ossoriense: being a collection of original letters and papers illustrative of the history of the Irish church from the reformation to 1800. 4 vols. Dublin, 1874; especially 'Some documents connected with Dr Creagh, archbishop of Armagh, with notice of his life', Spicilegium Ossoriense, 1 (1874) 40–58.
  27. Sir John Thomas Gilbert, A history of the viceroys of Ireland. With notices of the castle of Dublin and its chief occupants in former times. (Dublin and London 1865).
  28. Sir John Thomas Gilbert, Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, vols. 8-18, (Dublin 1889–1922).
  29. Raphael Holinshed, The ... chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande ... 4 pts. in 2 vols. (1577}.
  30. Raphael Holinshed, Holinshead's Irish chronicles [The historie of Ireland from the first inhabitant thereof unto the year 1509]; continued till the yeare 1547 by Richarde Stanyhurst. Edited by Liam Miller and Eileen Power. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey (USA) 1979.
  31. A prose version of Regan's Chronicle, &c., was printed in Dublin, 1747 by Walter Harris in 'Hibernica' from an abstract by Sir George Carew. The chronicle, or rather poem, has since been edited by Mr. Goddard H. Orpen, under the title of 'The Song of Dermot and the Earl' (Oxford, 1892). [Available at CELT in file T250001-001].
  32. John O'Donovan, Annals of the Four Masters vol 1., A.D. 840. Dublin 1849. [Available at CELT].
  33. Pipe Roll of 19 Henry III., Irish Record Office.
  34. John Gillingham, 'The travels of Roger of Howden and his views of the Irish, Scots and Welsh'. Anglo-Norman Studies, 20 (1998) 151–169.
  35. John Barry, 'Richard Stanihurst's De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis'. Renaissance Studies, 18:1 (2004), 1–18.
    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)

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

The present text covers pages 3–38 of the volume.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text proofread twice at CELT.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text. Footnotes are included and tagged note, or integrated into the bibl elements inside citation tags. Non-standard spellings of names are regularised using the reg attribute within the XML/SGML tags. Encoding is subject to revision.

Quotation

Direct speech is tagged q. Citations are tagged cit. This element contains qt and bibl elements.

Hyphenation

Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a page-break or line-break, this break is marked after the completion of the hyphenated word.

Segmentation

div0=the whole text; div1=the section; back back matter containing one appendix. Page-breaks are marked pb.

Standard Values

Dates are standardized in the ISO form yyyy-mm-dd, and tagged.

Interpretation

Place-names, personal and group names, titles (of books etc.) and terms are tagged and regularised. Words and phrases from other languages are tagged.

Canonical References

This text uses the DIV1 element to represent the section.

Profile Description

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

Use of language

Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [LA] Some words and phrases are in Latin.

Revision History