Irish Manuscripts Commission

This contemporaneous Latin epic — the so-called Poema de Hibernia (‘Poem about Ireland’) — provides a detailed account of the Williamite war in Ireland from the perspective of the losers. Its more than 5,500 lines are written in dactylic hexameters and organized into six books. It exists in only one manuscript (Gilbert MS 141 held in Dublin City Library and Archive), along with a late nineteenth-century copy (Gilbert MS 142).