Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . d aswere the ideas on ancient Irish civilization suggested (rather than con-tained) in it, the work gave at least another side of the controversy:and its criticisms on the misstatements in the works of Stanyhurst,Hanmer and others must have given food for thought to manycandid students. About this time Dean Swift shows how little regard 1 This view (I think) is first expounded by Irenaeus in Edmund Spensers Stateof Ireland, but put in the reign of Edward IV. Later writers identified it with theperiod (1595) in the reigns of Edward I and
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . d aswere the ideas on ancient Irish civilization suggested (rather than con-tained) in it, the work gave at least another side of the controversy:and its criticisms on the misstatements in the works of Stanyhurst,Hanmer and others must have given food for thought to manycandid students. About this time Dean Swift shows how little regard 1 This view (I think) is first expounded by Irenaeus in Edmund Spensers Stateof Ireland, but put in the reign of Edward IV. Later writers identified it with theperiod (1595) in the reigns of Edward I and II. The statement about Killaloe,at first called Clariford, is monumental in its ignorant assertion. 2 Life and Times of Thomas Becket (Nineteenth Century, 1877). He derivesthe Irish Mac Mahons from Fitzurse, one of the Archbishops slayers. 3 Vol. iii, p. 576, 4 Archaeologia Britannica, 1707, p. 435. He consulted the Clarendon Library, Armagh, the collection of Brownlow of Lurgan, Co. Down, and theBodleian Library. Plate 11 ] [To face page 8. PRESIDENTS ADDRESS 9 even the intellectual had for original research. He mentions an oldobscure place called Keeper of the Records in Berminghams Tower. . though all the records there are not worth half a crown forcuriosity and use ! —not so do we now assess that priceless collec-tion. Yet Swift had some interest in early remains, and even notedand versified the legend of the Bheara on the LochcrewHills. From 1730 there was evidence of growing interest in Irishhistory. I will note only such works as the privately printedHistory of the Rebellion by Borlase and the Hibernica of WalterHarris ; the latter writer still lays us under a debt of gratitude byhis edition of Wares Bishops, in 1738, where he was carefulto procure those interesting engravings of our ancient cathedrals, ofone of which (Waterford) there is but little else left to our times:The notes and views of Clonmacnois by Blaymires are also of greatvalue. The D
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