Everything about Geoffrey Keating totally explained
Seathrún Céitinn, known in
English as
Geoffrey Keating, was a
17th century Irish Roman Catholic priest,
poet and
historian. He was born in Burgess,
Ballylooby, just outside
Cahir in
County Tipperary c.
1569, and died c.
1644. He is buried in
Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill.
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 a poetical "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 (literally "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. Ireland's English rulers suppressed
printing in Irish so the
Foras Feasa circulated in
manuscript.
Bibliography
- Bernadette Cunningham The World of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth century Ireland (Dublin 2000).
- Geoffrey Keating Foras Feasa ar Éirinn: the history of Ireland D.Comyn and P.S.Dineen (eds.) 4 vols. Irish Texts Society (London 1902-14).
- Geoffrey Keating Trí bior-ghaoithe an bháis: The three shafts of death ed. Robert Atkinson, LL.D. Royal Irish Academy (Dublin: 1890);
- Geoffrey Keating Stories from Keating's History of Ireland edited, with introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Osborn Bergin. Royal Irish Academy (Dublin: 1981)
- Geoffrey Keating Dánta, Amhráin is Caointe (Poems, Songs and Elegies), ed. Rev. John C. MacErlean, S.J. The Gaelic League (Dublin: 1900)
- Geoffrey Keating Eochairsciath an Aifrinn: An explanatory defence of the mass, ed. Patrick O'Brien (Dublin: 1898)
- Geoffrey Keating "History of Ireland: Foras Feasa ar Eirinn" trans. O'Mahoney. 3 vols. Irish Genealogical Foundation (1980)
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