O'Sullivan Beare (Philip)

  • d. 1634 or after
  • authors, scholars
  • Spain, Santiago de Compostella, Portugal
Irish historian and author, of the O'Sullivans of Beare and Bantry, who lived as an exile in Spain and Portugal, following the Nine Years’ War and the Irish defeat at Kinsale. He wrote a number of Latin treatises on subjects of Irish interest.
See also references for related subjects.
Caulfield, David, “The Scotic debate: Philip O’Sullivan Beare and his Tenebriomastix”, in: Jason Harris, and Keith Sidwell (eds), Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin writers and the republic of letters, Cork: Cork University Press, 2009. 109–125.
Morgan, Hiram, “‘Making Ireland Spanish’: the political writings of Philip O’Sullivan Beare”, in: Jason Harris, and Keith Sidwell (eds), Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin writers and the republic of letters, Cork: Cork University Press, 2009. 86–108.
Barnard, Toby, “O'Sullivan Beare, Philip (b. c.1590, d. in or after 1634)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–.
Grosjean, Paul, “Un soldat de fortune irlandais au service des Acta sanctorum: Philippe O’Sullivan Beare et Jean Bolland (1634)”, Analecta Bollandiana 81 (1963): 418–446.
Butler, W. F. T., “The identity of Philip O'Sullivan Beare, the historian”, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 55 (1925): 95–98.
OʼSullivan Beare, Philip, and Matthew Kelly [ed.], Historiae Catholicae Iberniae compendium, Dublin: John O'Daly, 1850.
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OʼSullivan Beare, Philip, Historiae Catholicae Iberniae compendium, Lisbon: excusum a Petro Crasbeeckio, 1621.