Product Description: The Ormonius is a five-book heroic poem of nearly 4,000 hexameters on the military career of the 10th Earl of Ormond, Thomas Butler, a key figure in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. Written by Ormonds fellow-Irishman, the doctor (and Oxonian) Dermot OMeara, it was published in London by Thomas Snodham in 1615, and was probably aimed at James VI & I and his court...read more

Product Description: This collection of articles by leading scholars focuses on Irish writing in Latin in the Renaissance and aims to rewrite Irish cultural history through recovery and analysis of Latin sources. This book renders accessible for the first time the vastly important Irish contribution to the counter-reformation, to European Renaissance and baroque literature in Latin and to the intellectual culture of European Latinity...read more