Geoffrey Keating - Wikipedia Geoffrey Keating From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Geoffrey Keating (Irish: Seathrún Céitinn; c. 1569 – c. 1644) was a 17th-century historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. He became an Irish Catholic priest and a poet. Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 References 3.1 Sources 4 External links Biography[edit] It was generally believed until recently that Keating had been born in Burgess, County Tipperary; indeed, a monument to Keating was raised beside the bridge at Burgess, in 1990; but Diarmuid Ó Murchadha writes, The presumption that Geoffrey Keating attended a bardic school at Burgess, Co. Tipperary, is attributable to Thomas O'Sullevane, a shadowy character from the fringes of literary circles in London. The same unreliable source names Burgess as Keating's place of birth, whereas recent work (Cunningham 2002) indicates that Moorstown Castle in the parish of Inishlounaght [in Tipperary] was his probable birthplace."[1] In November 1603, he was one of forty students who sailed for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which had just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux. On his arrival in France he wrote Farewell to Ireland, and upon hearing of the Flight of the Earls wrote Lament on the Sad State of Ireland. After obtaining the degree of Doctor of Divinity at the University of Bordeaux he returned about 1610 to Ireland and was appointed to the cure of souls at Uachtar Achaidh in the parish of Knockgraffan, near Cahir, where he put a stop to the then-common practice of delaying Mass until the neighbouring gentry arrived. His major work, Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (Foundation of Knowledge on Ireland, more usually translated History of Ireland), was written in Early Modern Irish and completed ca. 1634. The Foras Feasa traced the history of Ireland from the creation of the world to the invasion of the Normans in the 12th century, based on the rich native historical and pseudohistorical traditions (including that of the Milesians), historical poetry, annals and ecclesiastical records. The Foras Feasa circulated in manuscript, as Ireland's English administration would not give authority to have it printed because of its pro-Catholic arguments. It was a time of religious repression; in 1634 a political campaign for a general reform of anti-Catholic laws, known as the Graces, was denied by the viceroy. Having Old English ancestry, Keating held the political view that Ireland's nobility and natural leadership derived from the surviving Gaelic clan chiefs and Old English landed families who had remained Catholic. He accepted the Stuart dynasty as legitimate. This had a continuing influence on the politics of the Confederate and Jacobite supporters in Ireland until Papal recognition of the Stuarts ended in 1766. Keating continued to influence Irish genealogical writers such as John O'Hart into the 1800s. Works[edit] Edited and translated works : O'Connor, Dermod, ed. (1723), The General History of Ireland For a list of editions, translations, and manuscripts see Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Keating, Geoffrey (1890), Atkinson, Robert (ed.), Trí bior-ghaoithe an bháis [The three shafts of death] (in Irish), Royal Irish Academy Keating, Geoffrey (1898), O'Brien, Patrick (ed.), Eochairsciath an Aifrinn [An explanatory defence of the mass] (in Irish) Keating, Geoffrey (1898), Comyn, David (ed.), Díonḃrollaċ fórais feasa ar Éirinn [Vindication of the sources of Irish History] (in Irish and English), The Gaelic League Keating, Geoffrey (1900), Mac Giolla Eain, Eoin Cathmhaolach (ed.), Dánta, Amhráin is Caointe [Poems, Songs and Elegies] (in Irish), The Gaelic League References[edit] ^ Ó Murchadha, Diarmuid (2005), "A review of some placename material from Foras Feasa ar Éirinn" (PDF), Éigse, A Journal of Irish Studies, 35: 81 Sources[edit] Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Geoffrey Keating" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Cunningham, Bernadette (2000), The World of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth century Ireland External links[edit] The History of Ireland (English Translation) with memoir, notes and genealogies at The Ex-Classics Web Site. v t e Gaelic Irish genealogy General Irish clans (list) Irish annals Irish bardic poetry Fili Ollamh Seanchaí Gaelic nobility of Ireland Chief of the Name Irish heraldry Irish diaspora Genealogical Society of Ireland Genealogical Office National Archives of Ireland Clans of Ireland Standing Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains Works Chronicle of Ireland Triallam timcheall na Fodla Tuilleadh feasa ar Éirinn óigh Leabhar Adhamh Ó Cianáin Leabhar Cloinne Maoil Ruanaidh Leabhar Ua Maine Leabhar na nGenealach Ó Cléirigh Book of Genealogies An Leabhar Muimhneach Annals of the Four Masters Griffith's Valuation Census of Ireland, 1901 Census of Ireland, 1911 Genealogists Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin Giolla na Naomh Ó hUidhrín Adhamh Ó Cianáin Faolán Mac an Ghabhann na Scéal Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh James Ware Geoffrey Keating James Terry Chevalier O'Gorman John O'Hart Rev. 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