Annals of the Four Masters

…the Annála Ríoghachta Éireann (1636; Annals of the Four Masters), a chronicle of Irish history from antiquity to 1616 and a work of incalculable importance to Irish scholarship.

, Annals of the Four Masters), a compilation of all available material on the history of Ireland to 1616, directed by Michael O’Clery. Geoffrey Keating produced the first historical (as opposed to annalistic) work in his Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (written c. 1640; History of Ireland)…