Abstract

Deriving its title from Nicholas Canny’s Making Ireland British 1580-1640, this collection of essays sheds much light on the work of selected Irish neo-Latin writers c.1550-1660. Arranged chronologically, it achieves a good balance between contextual study and close textual investigation. The volume’s unifying thread is the role of Latin as a language of learning, communication, and invective in early modern Ireland. At times, however, that thread seems dangerously tenuous in, for example, th...

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