The natural history of Ireland / Philip O'Sullivan Beare ; translated and edited by Denis C. O'Sullivan.
By: O\'Sullivan-Beare, Philip
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Contributor(s): O\'Sullivan, Denis.
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BookPublisher: Cork : Cork University Press, 2009Description: 1 v. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9781859184394.Subject(s): Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223? Topographia Hibernica. English | Natural history -- Ireland | Ireland -- HistoriographyDDC classification: 508.415
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Translated from the Latin.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Book I
- Foreword
- Introduction
- C. V What are the things that were said by Giraldus that need to be refuted here?
- Later Retaliation
- C. I The Words of Giraldus
- C. II Refutation of these words
- C. III Stanihurst refuted these words
- C. IV These words are examined in greater detail
- C. V Gyraldus is refuted by his very own words with which he praises Ireland in a wonderful way
- C. VI Ireland is described by various authors
- C. VII The author begins to describe Ireland
- C. VIII A general description of Ireland
- C. IX A description of Ireland by regions
- C. X Description of Shannon River
- C. XI The land animals of Ireland
- C. XII Irish birds
- C. XIII The tame land birds
- C. XIV Tame aquatic birds
- C. XV Types of eagle
- C. XVI Types of hawk
- C. XVII Nocturnal birds
- C. XVIII Crows and jackdaws
- C. XIX The Largest Birds: The Pheasant
- C. XX Birds called by the names of tame birds
- C. XXI Smaller birds
- C. XXII The smallest birds
- C. XXIII Aquatic birds
- C. XXIV Birds called by Irish names
- C. XXV The birds less common in other regions
- C. XXVI Insects of Ireland
- C. XXVII Bees of Ireland
- C. XXVIII The ants of Ireland
- C. XXIX Spider, Fly
- C. XXX The tick, cricket, grasshopper, butterfly, fly
- C. XXXI The tick, the leach
- C. XXXII Woodworm, clothes moth, earthworm, tapeworm
- C. XXXIII Lizard, snail, flesh worm
- C. XXXIV Animals not found in Ireland
- C. XXXV Aquatic creatures of Ireland
- C. XXXVI The whale, sea horse, otter, seal, and dolphin
- C. XXXVII Long fish
- C. XXXVIII Flat fish
- C. XXXIX Sea creatures protected by shells
- C. XL Pearls and shellfish
- C. XLI Sponges and the marine forms which are lacking in Ireland
- C. XLII Living creatures which lack feeling
- C. XLIII Fruit-bearing trees
- C. XLIV Other trees
- C. XLV Grains
- C. XLVI Leguminous Plants
- C. XLVII Grasses (herbage)
- C. XLVIII Flowers
- C. XLIX Saltpetre, originating from water
- C. L Metals
- C. LI Sulphur, Alum and types of Earth
- C. LII Stones and Gems They discuss the Purgatory of St Patrick
- C. LIII Miracles
- C. LIV The Purgatory of St Patrick
- C. LV In Ireland, no poisonous animals
- C. LVI Wonderful places
- C. LVII Wonderful islands
- C. LVIII Wonderful lakes
- C. LIX Wonderful wells
- C. LX Wonderful birds
- C. LXI A wonderful tomb
- C. LXII The Epilogue of this book
- Authors Cited
- Index