Keating (Geoffrey)

  • c.1580–1644
  • Irish poets, clergy, historians
Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn
See also references for related subjects.
Shingurova, Tatiana, “The story of Mog Ruith: perceptions of the local myth in the seventeenth-century Ireland”, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 38 (2018): 231–258.
Färber, Beatrix, “Bedeutung und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Foras feasa ar Éirinn (c. 1634) von Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn)”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 59 (2012): 97–117.
McGuire, James [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009–present. URL: <https://www.dib.ie>.
Cunningham, Bernadette, “Keating , Geoffrey <Seathrún Céitinn> (b. c.1580, d. in or before 1644)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–.
Cunningham, Bernadette, The world of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in seventeenth-century Ireland, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.
Hull, Vernam, “Keating, Colgan and the Saltair na rann”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 16 (1927): 453–457.
Keating, Geoffrey, and William Haliday [ed. and tr.], Forus feasa air Erinn: nar a nochtar priomhdhála na hInnse o Pharthalon, go Gabhaltus Gall = A complete history of Ireland, from the first colonization of the island by Parthalon, to the Anglo-Norman invasion, Dublin: John Barlow, 1811.  

An edition of the prologue and first part of Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn, along with an English translation.