Life
Author of an ‘Account of the O’Dempseys" [q.d.]; Records
of the Keating Family [q.d.]; The O’Neills of Ulster
(Dublin 1907).
Works
The O’Neills of Ulster, their history and genealogy, with illustrations
and some notices of the northern septs (Dublin: Sealy Bryers &
Walker Middle Abbey St. 1907), 3 vols. Vol I, 437pp (AD 1166-1519), 403pp.
Vol II (from Heremon to Murkertac, 1166), with Introduction F. J. Bigger,
437pp. Vol. III (The Break-Up of the Clan System, and Conquest and Plantation
of Ulster by the English), 369pp., incl. fold-out gen. chart, p.356; also An Account of the O’Dempseys, Chiefs of the Clan Maliere,
and Records of the Keating Family [n.d.; earlier than above.].
Notes
Constantia Maxwell refers to The Celtic Peoples [...] (1933) by Archb. Mathews [sic] remarking: ‘the difference in outlook between the Irish chieftains of the [Norman] period and the emissaries that reached Ireland from Spain and Rome are well brought out in Archbishop Mathew’s book, The Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe (1933).’ (Maxwell, Stranger in Ireland, 1954.)
Sean O’Faoláin refers to Archbishop Matthews [sic], The Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe in a work cited in J. J. Lee, ‘The Irish’, in O’Faoláin Special Issue, ed Seán Dunne, Cork Review, Cork 1991, p.66-67).
NOTE - NLI lists David Mathews as the author of The Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe: A Study of the Celtic and Spanish Influences on Elizabethan History (Sheed & Ward 1933), xv., 525pp., ill. - the same which is attrib. to Thomas Matthew in Maxwell - as infra. There is no listing for Thomas Matthews in that library, nor in COPAC - but another of that name with the bio-dates 1876-1916 is deemed to have contributed to Welsh culture through his exploration of the Pan-Celtic link. (See Thomas Matthews’s Welsh Record in Paris, ed. Dylan Rees & John Gwynfor Jones (Cardiff 2010), 192pp.
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