John Derricke composed his work, The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne [1] , in 1578 - directly before the Baltinglass Rebellion in the Pale. It includes a collection of 12 woodcuts and their accompanying verses. In these woodcuts, Derricke addresses many aspects of Ireland’s culture and current affairs as they stood before the rebellion, ranging from their dressing and dining habits to the actions of Irish lords with and against the English. Derricke’s attached artwork serves to reinforce his arguments regarding the Irish in a visual manner. His third poem and plate combination, titled Kern Pillaging Their Own People on a Bodrag, portrays Irish raiders as they pillage a settlement, indiscriminate of ethnicity, and provides a commentary on the lifestyle and mindset of these raiders. An Irish language work which counters this plate is the Irish poem “Dia Libh” [2] written by Aonghus Ó Dálaigh during the Baltinglass rebellion of 1580. In his work, Ó Dálaigh praises
A collection of various papers written by Nicholas Harding Bradley on a variety of topics within Irish traditional music, history, and literature.