The Irish and Spain to 1660

This florilegium, composed around 1306, compiles over 5,000 citations attributed to classical, patristic and medieval authors, all organised thematically and alphabetically, from abstinentia to Christus. In Spain it also spread very quickly,…

The help that Philip II of Spain gave to Ireland (and the rebels against Queen Elizabeth) of protection and financing, never assured him the domination of the island that would smooth his way toward the invasion of England. As in this episode of…

This book, printed in the Gaelic language in 1608, came out some fifty years after the birth of the Irish printing press in 1551. It is a translation of King James's edition of the Book of Common Prayer of 1604, the official text whereby the liturgy…

This small and abridged version of Mercator’s Atlas, the Atlas minor, is by Joost de Hondt. It was published to supply those who had some purchasing power, but not enough to buy the Atlas in the large format, and .. . Despite its size, the engraving…

The tradition of attributing the victory in the battle of the Alporchones to the intercession of St. Patrick is owed to Philip O'Sullivan Beare, one of the hundreds of Irish exiles who took refuge in Spain during the 17th century after Kinsale. How…