Bedeutung und Rezeptionsgeschichte des Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (c. 1634) von Geoffrey Keating (Seathrún Céitinn)

n electronic edition of Geoffrey Keating’s Foras Feasa ar Éirinn based on the ITS print edition ... is available online as one of the longest and most frequently accessed texts on the Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT), in both Irish and English. Geoffrey Keating is much less well-known than his work. This article explores both the contemporary background of the creation of Foras Feasa ar Éirinn and its later reception history. It sets out to contextualize some aspects of Keating’s life and the reception of his work, from its beginning until into the twentieth century.