Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: T100072

The Commonwealth of Ireland

Author: Fynes Moryson

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Charles Hughes

translated by Charles HughesElectronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber

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The President's Strategic Fund via the Writers of Ireland II Project.

2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Oxford, Corpus Christi College Library, MS 94.
    Editions/Translations
  1. 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.]
  2. Henry Morley (ed.), Ireland under Elizabeth and James the first, described by Edmund Spenser, by Sir John Davies, ... and by Fynes Moryson, Carisbrooke Library Series 10, London and New York 1890.
  3. 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 Unpublished Chapters of Fynes Moryson's Itinerary: being a Survey of the Condition of Europe at the end of the Sixteenth Century.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].
  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. 4 vols. Printed at the University Press by Robert Maclehose & Company Ltd. for James Maclehose and Sons, Publishers to the University of Glasgow, 1907–1908. [Reprint of 1617 edition.]
  5. Graham Kew (ed.), The Irish sections of Fynes Moryson's unpublished itinerary, Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission 1998 [first published in Analecta Hibernica 37 (1995/1996) 1–137].
  6. Internet resources at www.archive.org. An electronic text of the whole work has been made available by the University of Toronto Centre for Classical and Renaissance Literature.
    Further reading: A selection
  1. Edward Campion, A historie of Ireland (London 1571; facsimile, ed. M. Hamner, reprinted 1971).
  2. Richard Stanihurst, A Treatise containing a Plain and Perfect Description of Ireland (London 1577).
  3. Barnaby Rich, New Description of Ireland (London 1610).
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. Sir John Davies, A discoverie of the true causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued, nor brought under obedience of the crowne of England, until the beginning of his Majestie's happie raigne (London 1612; reprinted 1969).
  7. William Lithgow, Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations (1632). Reprint, edited with an introduction by Gilbert Phelps (London: The Folio Society 1974).
  8. Philip O'Sullivan Beare, Briefe relation of Ireland, and the diversity of Irish in the same, ed. by James Hardiman, in: W. J. Battersby (ed.), The Complete Catholic Directory, Almanack and Registry for the Year of our Lord 1841, vol. 1 (Dublin 1841) 362–373.
  9. Thomas Crofton Croker (ed.), The tour of the French traveller M. de La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland, A.D. 1644, ed. by T. 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.]
  10. Walter Harris (ed. and transl.), The works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland revised and improved. 3 vols. ... I. Containing, the history of the bishops ... II. Containing, the antiquities of Ireland. ... III. Containing the writers of Ireland. In two books. All written in Latin ... now newly translated into English ... (Dublin 1739–1746).
  11. Thomas Dinely, Observations on a Tour through the Kingdom of Ireland in 1681 (Dublin 1858, reprinted in Kilkenny Archaeological Society's Journal, Second Series, 4 (1856–57) 143–46, 170–88; 5 (1858–59) 22–32, 55–56; 7 (1862–63) 38–52, 103–109, 320–38; 8 (1864–66) 40–48, 268–90; 425–46; 9 (1867) 73–91, 176–204).
  12. Roderic O'Flaherty, A chorographical description of West or h-Iar Connaught, written A.D. 1684; ed. J. Hardiman (Dublin 1846).
  13. John Dymmok, 'A treatice of Ireland. Edited by Richard Butler', Tracts relating to Ireland 2, 1–90, Irish Archaeological Society (Dublin 1843).
  14. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county and city of Cork: Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. Dublin: printed for W. Wilson, 1774. Reprinted by the Cork Historical and Archæological Society, with the addition of numerous original notes, etc., from the mss. of the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A., and Richard Caulfield, LL.D. Edited by Robert Day and W.A. Copinger. Cork: Guy & Co., 1893–1894.
  15. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county and city of Waterford: containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson 1773; 1774.
  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. Richard Pococke, A Tour in Ireland in 1752; ed. by George T. Stokes, as 'Bishop Pococke's tour in Ireland in 1752' (Dublin and London 1891).
  18. P. W. Joyce, A Social History of Ancient Ireland (New York, London, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, & Company. 1903. 2 volumes.
  19. 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.
  20. Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors: with a succinct account of the earlier history. 3 vols. London: Longmans Green 1885–1890.
  21. J. C. Whitebrook, Fynes Moryson, Giordano Bruno and William Shakespeare, Notes and Queries 171 (1936) 255–260.
  22. Gilbert Waterhouse, Fynes Moryson: traveller, Bulletin, Irish Committee of Historical Sciences, 36 (1945).
  23. F. Walsham, Fynes Moryson and four indentures, Lincolnshire Historian 2:2 (1955) 18–23.
  24. Constantia Maxwell, The stranger in Ireland: from the reign of Elizabeth to the Great Famine (London 1954).
  25. L. W. Kenny, Contemporary sources for Essex's lieutenancy in Ireland, 1599, Irish Historical Studies 11:41 (1958/1959) 8–17.
  26. Andrew Hadfield; John McVeagh (eds.), Strangers to that land: British perceptions of Ireland from the Reformation to the famine (Ulster Editions and Monographs 5) (Gerards Cross: Smythe 1994).
  27. John McVeagh (ed.), Irish Travel Writing. A Bibliography (Dublin 1996).
  28. Hiram Morgan, The Battle of Kinsale (Bray 2004).
  29. C. J. Woods, Travellers' accounts as source material for Irish historians (Dublin 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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The present text covers pages 233–309 of the volume; being the fourth and last volume, Book 2, chapter 5 of Moryson's Itinerary.

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Created: Translation by Charles Hughes Date range: 1902–1903.

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [GA] A few words are in Irish.
Language: [LA] A few words are in Latin.

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