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Poema de Hibernia, a Jocobite Latin eipc on the Williamite wars
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By: Pádraig Lenihan, Keith Sidwell
Publisher: Irish Manuscripts Commission
Published: December 2017
Pages: 1
Categories: Literature
Available as: Hardback
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ISBN-13: 9781906865597
ASIN: 1906865590

This contemporaneous poem provides a detailed account of the Williamite war in Ireland from the perspective of the losers. It exists in only one manuscript (Gilbert MS 141), along with a late nineteenthcentury copy (Gilbert MS 142). Written in Latin the text has never been published in its entirety. The Poemadeparts from the polarised perspectives of both the pro-Tyrconnell ‘A light to the blind’ and the anti-Tyrconnell bias of Charles O’Kelly’s Macariae Excidium. It points to a middle ground among Jacobite factions in Ireland and at the same time touches on important episodes passed over by other contemporary accounts. This scholarly edition provides the entire Latin text and an expert English translation of a poem of great historical importance.

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