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A bit of a different article today, with a musical treat at the end. This article caught my attention as my paternal immigrant ancestors were a Keating married to a Hyland. (No known relation on either side to the subject Read More …
The Very Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Keating the Herodotus of Ireland, the foremost and ablest in the sixteenth century, or, indeed, at any period, in defending the truth of Ireland’s history, was of Norman descent. The illustrious Irish scholar and erudite Read More …
KEATING, GEOFFREY (1570? – 1644?), Irish writer, was born in the county of Tipperary (Tri Biorghaoithe an Bhais, bk. iii, 8), near the village of Burgess (Clanricarde Memoirs, 1744). He was a Roman catholic. After education in a school near Read More …