{"id":650,"date":"2020-10-06T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T07:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/?page_id=650"},"modified":"2020-10-06T20:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:00:52","slug":"recommended-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kingdomofdesmond.com\/?page_id=650","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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A History of Ireland in The Reign of Elizabeth\u00a0<\/h2>

Being a Portion of the History of Catholic Ireland<\/p>

Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Don Philip O’Sullivan Bear (written in Latin in 1621)<\/p>

Translation:\u00a0<\/strong>Matthem J. Byrne<\/p>

Published:\u00a0<\/strong>1903; Sealy, Bryers & Walker, Dublin, Ireland

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Don Philip O’Sullivan Bear was a historian and the nephew of Donal Cam O’Sullivan Bear who was the ruler of the Beara Peninsula in County Cork at the time of the Battle of Kinsale, 1601.\u00a0<\/p>

Donal ruled from Dunboy Castle which is located near the present town of Castletownbere, located on the north shore of Bantry Bay.\u00a0This volume is a Portion of the History of Catholic Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I.\u00a0<\/p>

One of the significant features of this book is that it provides evidence of the famous trek that Donal Cam O’Sullivan Bear made along with a thousand of his followers from Bantry Bay to Leitrim in Northern Ireland following the capture of\u00a0Dunboy Castle in 1601.\u00a0He arrived in Leitrim with only about 30 of his people still alive.\u00a0<\/p>

Two popular books,\u00a0The Last Prince of Ireland<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Morgan Llywelyn (1992) and\u00a0From Bantry Bay to Leitrim<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by Peter Somerville-Large (1974), describe this famous trek using Don Philip O’Sullivan Bear’s book as a source.<\/p>

Don Philip O’Sullivan Bear’s book is a rare and out of print book, which you may be able to buy from a \u2018rare books dealer\u2019 or borrow from a larger library.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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A New Book of Rights\u00a0<\/h2>

Being a complete transcript of the legal verdicts handed down by the courts of the Republic of Italy concerning the heraldic rights, status, and prerogatives of The MacCarthy M\u00f3r,<\/p>

Prince of Desmond, Chief of His Name and Arms and Head of the Eoghanacht Royal House of Munster with a translation of Letters Patent confirming the same issued by\u00a0His Excellency The Marques de la Floresta, Castile & Leon King of Arms<\/p>

200 pages – ISBN: 0965422046<\/p>

Published:\u00a0<\/strong>Nov. 1998; The Royal E\u00f3ghanacht Society (P.O. Box 70, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland).<\/p>

Description:\u00a0<\/strong>From the foreword . . .<\/p>

There is a religious aphorism to the effect that “To those who believe, no explanation is necessary.\u00a0 To those who will not believe, none is possible.”\u00a0<\/p>

The stress is valid on “WILL NOT” which underlines the impossibility of “converting” those who maintain an ACTIVE wish to disbelieve, rather than a mere indifference, or even lack of belief.\u00a0I have not the slightest doubt that those who WILL NOT believe in the continued existence of the Gaelic Royal Houses will be indifferent to these verdicts, whilst those of us who have always supported them hardly require sight of such “proofs.”\u00a0<\/p>

Accordingly, the Royal E\u00f3ghanacht Society has published this book merely as a matter of record rather than as an aid to proselytism.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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An Irish Miscellany: Essays Heraldic, Historical and Genealogical<\/h2>

240+ pages, illustrated library cover; Indexed with bibliography – ISBN 0965422038<\/p>

Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Terence McCarthy & Andrew Davison<\/p>

Published:\u00a0<\/strong>1998; Gryfons Publishers & Distributors, Little Rock, AR, USA.<\/p>

Description:<\/strong><\/p>

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