Thomas Carve

Life
1590-1672 [otherwise Carue, Carew, and Ó Corráin]; b. Mobarnan, Co. Tipperary, d. Germany, or at least was living at Sulzbach in 1670; Chaplain-General of Irish, Scottish, and English forces in thirty years War; his Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve. Tipperariensis (vols. 1 and 2, Mainz 1639-41; vol. 3, Spires 1646), contains eye-witness accounts of that war, and was reprinted in small ed. (London 1859). Rerum Germanicarum ab anno 1617 ad annum 1641; Gestarum Epitome (1641); and Lyra, seu Anacephalaeosis [var. -aoesius DIB] Hibernica (Vienna 1651; rev. ed. Sulzbach 1666), an account of Ireland. Also Galateus (Nordhausen 1669) and Enchiridion Apologeticum (Noribergae 1670). DIW DIB ODNB OCIL

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References
Dictionary of National Biography
: Catholic priest in Leighlin diocese; Army Chaplin, Germany, 1626-43; visited Ireland, 1630 and 1633; vicar-choral St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, 1643; published Itinerarium, being an account of his services, 1639-46, a treatise on Irish history, 1651, and other works.

Belfast Public Library holds Itinerarium (1809).

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