brief discourse in vindication of the antiquity of Ireland
Subtitle: collected out of many authentick Irish histories and chronicles, and out of foreign learned authors : in two parts : I. containing a brief account of the travels and adventures of the Gadelians from Feniusa-farsa's time to the coming of the Milesians into Ireland, and continued to the year of salvation 431 : II. some memorable actions and accidents to the year 1171.
Contributors: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872 former owner.
Publisher: Printed by S. Powell ... for the author
Published: 1717
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Ireland -- History -- To 1172
Notes: Dedication signed: H. MacCurtin. Attributed to Hugh MacCurtin or MacCuirtain. Cf. DNB, v. 35, p. 466 and Halkett & Laing, v. 1, p. 236.

A third part was planned, but never published. Cf. DNB.

Bradshaw Irish Coll. 376

Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Phillippica. From the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt.