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- Irish chronicle including kings, battles, raids and many other important events. Here in English.
- (431-1540; Gaelic)
- Chronicle of Ireland's medieval history
- Compiled by CELT
- (433-1450; English transcription)
- Irish annal written by many scribes.
- (593-1607; Irish)
- Online database of ancient sources::In cooperation with Fordham University
- (1100-1320; Latin and English transcriptions)
- A massive volume of primary sources derived from chronicles and annals, with direct links
- (Middle Ages; English and Latin)
- Treaty between England and Ireland defining territorial boundaries.
- (1175; English)
- ”This series details material relevant to the history of Britain contained in the papal registers held in the Vatican archives.”
- British History Online
- (1198-1484; English transcription)
- Including The topography of Ireland, The history of the conquest of Ireland, The itinerary through Wales, and The description of Wales
- (late 12th century; English translation)
- Describes Irish landowners in a particular region.
- (12th-14th centuries; Middle Irish)
- History from the death of King Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, with exceptional details on the Connacht affairs.
- See CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
- (1224-1544; English translation)
- Irish annals, whose creation spans several centuries.
- (1241-1423; Irish)
- Also called Annals of Boyle, one of the works forming the Chronicle of Ireland. Divided into three segments: Pre-Christian, pre-Patrician, and post-Patrician.
- Made available by CELT
- (to 1253; Latin transcription)
- Along with a genealogy of the Ó Ceallaigh dynasty, contents include Banshenchas, Cormac's Glossary, Lebor na Cert, and portions of Lebor Gabála.
- (ca 1292; facsimile)
- Ed. by Henry F. Berry (Dublin: HMSO, 1907)
- (13th to 15th centuries; English-language facsimiles)
- Officially: "A statue of the Fortieth Year of King Edward III., enacted in a parliament held in Kilkenny, A.D. 1367, before Lionel Duke of Clarence, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland."
- In effect, statutes aimed at the Anglo-Norman inhabitants of Ireland with regulations to discourage assimilation into Irish ways.
- (1367; transcriptions searchable by article number in database form ).
- King of England and of France, and lord of Ireland
- (1399-1413; facsimile with English translations)
- Book of Irish genealogies and history.
- (1418; Middle Irish)
- Gaelic documents from digital collections at Coláiste na Rinne, Mount Melleray Abbey, National Library of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and National University of Ireland, Galway.
- (Gaelic-language facsimiles, registers and various types of apparatus).
- Major manuscript source.
- An Act of the Parliament of Ireland.
- With intent to make Ireland subject to the English parliamentary.
- (1494-1495; transcription)
- Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland
- Of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, and of Charles I
- (1574-1660; English facsimiles)
- "Original documents and notices of Irish affairs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."
- Provided by the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
- (1500-1700; electronic book version)
- These annals are, accorning to Wikiepdia: "a history of Ireland and the areas surrounding Clonmacnoise from the creation of man to the year 1408.... The originals were destroyed not merely by the books being burnt by marauding Vikings but also by tailors cutting the leaves of the books and slicing them off in long pieces to make their measures."
- (1627; facsimile)
- Concentrated in Bodleian Library and Corpus Christi College.
- (9th to 19th centuries; facsimiles)
- This section includes primary documents of post-1169 Ireland online.
- (1169 - 1603; facsimiles and transcriptions)
- By Walter Bower. A continuation of Chronica Gentis Scotorum
- (15th century; English facsimile)
- Penal Statutes passed in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I, William and Mary, King William III, Queen Anne, King George I and II.
- (1558-1759; English transcriptions).
- Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland. A source used for Shakespeare's Macbeth, King Lear and Cymbeline. Organized by chapter.
- (1587; Old English transcription)
- For Annala Rioghachta Éireann The Chronicle of the Kingdom of Ireland
- (1589-1616; Irish Gaelic transcriptions and other documents)
- See CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
- The Four Masters’ account of the battle at Yellow Ford includes a rare but brief glimpse of an ordinary soldier—unnamed, of course—who discovers the dangers of gunpowder.
- From Erenow
- (1595; English transcription)
- By Edmund Spenser.
- (1596; English transcription)
- Irish Travel Diaries, in chronological order, transcribed by Dr Ruth Canning, and available in PDF format.
- (1660s; English transcription)
- (1689-1691; transcriptions with modernised spelling)
EuroDocs > History of Ireland: Primary Documents > 1169-1691
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