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Episode: Beyond the Book of Kells: On the Conquest of Ireland
Description: Recorded December 5, 2017.
This lecture is part of a series entitled "Beyond the Book of Kells: The stories of eight other medieval manuscripts from the library of Trinity College Dublin."
In this third talk of the series, Dr Caoimhe Whelan from Trinity's Department of History will discuss TCD MS. 592: A Hiberno-English translation of Gerald of Wales' On the Conquest of Ireland. Gerald of Wales was perhaps the principal propagandist of the twelfth-century English invasion of Ireland and his work was to have a lasting impact on both colonisers and colonised. TCD 592 presents a fifteenth-century English translation of Gerald's work, apparently written...