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The Natural History of Ireland: included in Book One of the Zoilomastix of Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare - Hardcover
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The Natural History of Ireland is an important source of the history of Ireland's natural environment and its political history. It was originally written in Latin by Don Philip O'Sullivan Beara, an Irish nobleman living in exile in Spain, and formed part of his Zoilomastix (1625).
O'Sullivan Beare wrote the Zoilomastix to refute the Topographia Hiberniae of Giraldus Cambrensis, which was derogatory of Ireland and the Irish people. Book One of the Zoilomastix highlights his reaction to this propagandist text denigrating Ireland and comments on the natural habitat and features, such as rivers, plants, animals, fish and birds of Ireland.
This book has never been translated into English before, thus making this a unique publication. This en face translation is both faithful to the original and accessible to the general reader. An introduction by Denis O'Sullivan gives an overall history of the O'Sullivans and Philip in particular.
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About the Author
Denis C. O’Sullivan both edited and translated this edition.
Review
"First English translation of a work in Latin written by a 17th-century Irish nobleman living in exile in Spain." (Chronicle of Higher Ed Review)
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- PublisherCork University Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1859184391
- ISBN 13 9781859184394
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages300
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Condition: Very Good. Offers the history of Ireland's natural environment and its political history. This work features comments on the natural habitat and features, such as rivers, plants, animals, fish and birds, of Ireland. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Denis. Translator(s): O'Sullivan, Denis. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 584. Clean copy in fine dust wrapper. Previous owner's name to half-title page. Remains a very good copy. 2009. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KMK0013158
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The natural history of Ireland, included in Book One of the "Zoilomastrix" of Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare ; translated and edited by Denis C. O'Sullivan
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The natural history of Ireland, included in Book One of the "Zoilomastrix" of Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare ; translated and edited by Denis C. O'Sullivan
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Condition: Sehr gut. 296 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Very slightly scuffed dust jacket, otherwise in very good condition. - Content: Denis O'Sullivan's translation of the first book of Philip O'Sullivan-Beare's Zoilomastix is a landmark. For many years, the Latin writings of the Irish of the early modern period have lain neglected, whether they appeared in printed texts (like Peter Lombard's Commentarius of 1631) or, like the Zoilomastix, in manuscript. At UCC, the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies has, since 1999, been undertaking the collection and study of this lost literature of Ireland. Between 1500 and 1750, when Latin was the medium of European intellectual discourse, more than 300 Irish writers produced more than 1000 printed works, and probably as many, if not more again, which, like Zoilomastix, never reached print (though this may not have stopped them circulating and having their own influence). I am pleased to be asked to write a foreword to the first of (we hope) a very large number of such translations (some with Latin text) which will appear in various places over the next few years. Zoilomastix is a very difficult manuscript. It is hard to read and its many marginal annotations seem almost designed to baffle the editor. However, Denis has fought manfully to bring order to this chaos and has produced a clear version of a text that is at many places a revision and correction of O'Donnell's transcription and can be well defended as what O'Sullivan-Beare intended to be read. He has written a fairly literal rendition of the Latin, which serves to convey succinctly the information proffered by the text. Denis has had a remarkable career. A career as a medical man was followed by the completion of a degree in Greek and Latin (with first-class honours) at UCC upon his retirement. "The work before you is both the product of the skill acquired during that period and also a labour of love. For who better to present to the world a celebration of Ireland by O'Sullivan-Beare than an O'Sullivan, and at that an O'Sullivan from the same clan that produced one of the most important, and most neglected, Latin writers of the early modem period? This unique contribution to the understanding of Ireland's natural history is part of the Zoilomastix, a manuscript held in the University of Uppsala in Sweden. It was originally written in Latin by an Irish nobleman in exile in Spain. The author did not set out to write about the flora and fauna of Ireland, rather it was part of a wider attempt by him to correct the blackening of Ireland s reputation by the medieval writer Giraldus Cambrensis in his Topographia Hiberniae. This Renaissance treatment of Ireland's natural history, which owes much to classical precedents, is here brought to the attention of a modern audience in a complete English translation for the first time. Its author was Philip O'Sullivan (1590-1636) from West Cork and it has its origins in the destruction of Gaelic Ireland in the aftermath of the battle of Kinsale (1602). ISBN 9781859184394 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 608 Original cloth with dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1166669
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