The Natural History of Ireland: included in Book One of the Zoilomastix of Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare

The Natural History of Ireland is an important source of the history of Ireland's natural environment and its political history. It was originally written in Latin by Don Philip O'Sullivan Beara, an Irish nobleman living in exile in Spain, and formed part of his Zoilomastix (1625).

O'Sullivan Beare wrote the Zoilomastix to refute the Topographia Hiberniae of Giraldus Cambrensis, which was derogatory of Ireland and the Irish people. Book One of the Zoilomastix…