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neux's Case of Ireland. During the seventeenth century several books 

 in connexion with Ireland were published in London. Numerous 

 tracts and pamphlets emanating from thence were circulated for the 

 purpose of promoting political and other objects. Other EDglish pub- 

 lications of the time were avowedly intended to expose what they 

 designated the natural stupidity and simplicity of the Irish. 



"We may now turn to our next section — the bibliography of publi- 

 cations of Irish authors, and in connexion with Ireland, printed on the 

 Continent in the seventeenth century. Most of these were in Latin, 

 but some were in Irish, English, French, Italian, or German. The 

 places at whicli these works chiefly appeared were as follows: — 

 Antwerp, Bologna, Bolsano in the Tirol, Boulogne, Brussels, Cologne, 

 Douai, Dunkerque, Frankfort, Innspruck, Lille, Lisbon, Louvain, 

 Lucca, Lyons, Madrid, Mentz, Milan, Mens, Naples, Paris, Passau, 

 Prague, Eome, Rouen, Spira, St. Male, St. Omer, Sultzbach, Trient, 

 Vienna, Wurtzburg. The books published at these places varied in 

 size from the folio to the octodecimo. In point of extent the greatest 

 of them was the collection of the works of Duns Scotus in fifteen 

 folio volumes, edited entirely by expatriated Irishmen, and published 

 at Lyons in 1639. 



Somewhat later in date were the folio volumes in which otlier 

 exiled Irish scholars — Colgan and Fleming — transmitted to posterity 

 surviving remnants of the ancient Gaelic Literature of Ireland. It 

 may be added that few European publications of their age are now 

 sought for with greater avidity or rank higher in money value than 

 some books published abroad by Irish editors of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury. The Irish authors who wrote in Latin usually added to their 

 names on the title-pages the word " Hibernus." In some cases they 

 xnentioned the part of Ireland to which they belonged, as in the case 

 of Dr. John O'Dwyer of Cashel, who styled himself " Casseliensis," 

 on the title-page of his treatise " Querela Medica,'' published at Mens 

 in 1686. 



The books in the Irish language printed within this period were 

 published at Brussels, Louvain, and Home. Of books in English by 

 Irish writers published on the Continent in the seventeenth century, 

 two by Captain Gerald Barry deserve special notice, and are of extreme 

 rarity. The first — a folio volume, with plates, published at Louvain 

 in 1626 — contained a narrative of the famous siege of Breda, at whicli 

 the author, with a regiment of Irish soldiers in the service of Spain, 

 took an active part. Barry's second work, also in folio, with plates, 

 issued at Brussels in 1634, was a discourse on military discipline, with 



