TY - BOOK AU - Stanyhurst,Richard AU - Morgan,Hiram AU - Barry,John ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Great deeds in Ireland: Richard Stanihurst's De rebus in Hibernia gestis SN - 9781909005907 AV - DA930 .S7913 2013 U1 - 941.501 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Cork, Ireland PB - Cork University Press KW - Ireland KW - History KW - To 1172 KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-518) and indexes; Text and translation -- Book one -- Book two -- Book three -- Book four -- Appendix -- Stanihurst's index -- Errata -- Privileges -- Notes to translation -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - In facing Latin and English texts, Great Deeds in Ireland is the first full translation of the controversial Latin history of Ireland by the famous Dublin intellectual, Richard Stanihurst. Great Deeds in Ireland provides a contemporary account of Ireland's geography and people and what the author considered to be the greatest event in Irish history -- the Anglo-Norman conquest. Stanihurst celebrated the origins of the English colony in Ireland while simultaneously allegorizing the dilemma facing his own community from a new wave of Protestant English conquerors. The Anglo-Irishman's attempt to introduce Ireland to Europe's Renaissance elite in a literary tour-de-force went awry after many Gaelic Irish, also exiled on the continent, objected to the book's satirical portrayal of Ireland's clergy and its representation of the country's customs, history and learned classes. The book was burned on the orders of the Inquisition in Portugal, marked prohibido in libraries in Spain and provoked a number of angry responses from readers and other writers over the following eighty years. Because of its centrality to debates about Ireland, Stanihurst's De Rebus was the first book translation undertaken by the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies established at University College Cork UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781909005907/ ER -