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Trí bior-ghaoithe an bháis ‘The three shafts of death’

Geoffrey Keating
  • Early Modern Irish
  • Irish literature
A treatise written c. 1631 by Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn) in which he reflects on the nature of life and death.
Author
Keating (Geoffrey)
Keating (Geoffrey)
(c.1580–1644)
Irish priest, historian and poet; author of Foras feasa ar Éirinn

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Language
  • Early Modern Irish

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[ed.] Bergin, Osborn, Geoffrey Keating. Trí bior-ghaoithe an bháis: The three shafts of death, 2nd ed., Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1931.
CELT – text: <link>
[ed.] Atkinson, Robert [ed.], Trí bior-ghaoithe an bháis (‘The three shafts of death’) of Rev. Geoffrey Keating, Irish Manuscript Series, 2.1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1890.
Internet Archive: <link>, <link>
with corrigenda on p. 462
Translation wanted
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February 2013, last updated: January 2024