• Apologia pro Hibernia adversus Cambri Calumnias: sive, Fabularum et famosorum libellorum Silvestri Giraldi Cambrensis, sub vocabulis topographiæ, sive de mirabilibus Hiberniæ et historiæ vaticinalis, sive expugnationis ciusden insulae refutatio / auctore Stephano Vito. Nunc primum edita cura Matthĉi Kelly [Matthew Kelly]. (Dublinii: Apud Johannem O’Daly, via vulgo dicta Bedford Row, No. 7 / 1849), xv [Preface & Latin table of contents], v [introductio: Benvolo Lectori S.], 1-241 [Chaps. I-XXVI]. 243-251pp. [Appendices]; 253-60 [Index.] 26cm. - available at Internet Archive - online [Gift of George C. Mahon at Michigan UL; accessed 15.09.2011].

• William Reeves, Memoir of Stephen White [read before the Royal Irish Academy, 30 Nov. 1861 rep. from Proceedings] ([Dublin: [RIA] 1861]), 10pp. [incls. copy of a letter in Latin from White to Fr. John Colgan; English and Latin].
• Jason Harris, ‘The Rhetoric of History: Stephen White’s Apologia pro innocentibus Ibernis’, in Harris & Keith Sidwell, eds, Making Ireland Roman: The Latin Writing of Early Modern Ireland (Cork UP 2009) [q.pp.].

Stephen White, the author of the following work, was born in Clonmel about the middle of the sixteenth century. He entered the order of the Jesuits, and soon acquired a great reputation for profound and varied erudition. The Bolandists gratefully acknow ledge the assistance which he gave to Father Rosweide, in preparing materials for the lives of the saints, and even when engaged in the laborious duties of the theology chair in Dilingen, he continued to devote much of his time to the ecclesiastical history of Ireland. He was among the first Irish writers who vindicated the honor of his country against the Scottish pretenders, who attributed to Scotland all the glories of the ancient Scotia. The value of his labours in this department has been attested by the most competent authorities; Ussher, to whom he supplied some manuscripts from the German libraries, not being less warm in his commendation than Lynch, Colgan, or 0’Sullivan. The bishops of the Catholic Confederation resolved to publish one of his works at the public expense, as highly creditable to the honor of the country. But though he enjoyed so great a name among his contemporaries, and subsequently with the few scholars who had access to his manuscripts, none of his writings were ever printed. As several of them are still extant, there may be an opportunity of publishing them uniform with the present volume, and of collecting into a biographical sketch several notices of the author, which attest how much he was esteemed by those who could best appreciate his merits. [iii]
 The Apologia is now published for thc first time from a manuscript preserved in the Bibliothdque des Ducs de Bourgogne, Brussells [see note]. No other copy of the work being known to the editor, there was no choice but to publish it as it stands, except in a few passages which had manifestly been corrupted by the copyist. On some points, which cannot escape the attention of the critical reader, it would have been desirable to have the benefit of a collation of different copies; but in general it will be found, that however such collations might exercise the industry of an editor, they are by no means necessary to sustain the main arguments of the author. In the MS. from which the text is printed, a considerable quantity of additional matter had been incorporated, as long parentheses, in the body of the work. But though these parentheses are evidently from the same pen as the text, it was considered better to print them as notes under the place which they occupied, in order to avoid thc inconvenience of tampering with the original by editorial additions or alterations.
 Whether the Apologia be worthy of the high name of the author the learned reader must decide. But it ought not to be forgotten, that it was composed very early in the seventeenth century, probably bcfore the year 1615. It could not be expected that a person writing in a foreign land, without access to native original documents, (few of which had yet been printed,) could avoid falling into several errors. He had no work of Ussher, Colgan, or Ware to guide him. He wrote several years even before Ward had commenced to collect materials for the ecclesiastical history of Ireland; yet, due abatement being made for these disadvantages, his work will be found as free from errors as most of those written on new subjects. To some of his arguments thc research of subsequent writers has been able to add very little, especially where he refutes some of the errors of Giraldus on the eclessiastical history of [iv] Ireland previous to the English invasion. It was deemed unecessary to correct in detail the points in which he differs from his successors, as a reference to Dr. Lanigan would generally be sufficient for the purpose. On one important question regarding the Bull of Alexander III. to Henry II., he was led astray by the Frankfort edition of Giraldus Cambrensis, which suppresses that Bull, and confounds it with Adrian’s. The reader may perhaps regret that our author has wasted so much learning and argument on the personal character of Giraldus. But Giraldus, whose works had been lately published, was in those days enlisted as a potent auxiliary for the solution of the old English difficulty, commonly called the "settlement" of Ireland. It had been his lot to be the apologist of the spoliation of the Irish by the first Anglo-Norman invaders, and he was now, four hundred years after his death, employed in the same work, to complete the ruin of the remnant of the old Irish, as well as of many of the Anglo-Irish. His well-stocked armory of calumny was as useful for the spoliation of the Irish by law under the Stuarts, as for their spoliation by the sword under the Plantagenets. The circumstances of the day imparted to his character, however contemptible, an importance which no writer undertaking to refute him could prudently overlook. Should this volume receive due encouragement, there would be no difficulty in publishing several works written on Catholic affair after the Reformation, together with many valuable MSS. never printed, and rarely, if at all cited by historians. The usual catalogue price of Rothe’s or 0’Sullivan’s writings is greater than would be required for a copious collection of Irish Catholic authors, uniform with the prescnt volume. To S. H. Bindon, Esq. is due the discovery of the manuscript from which the Apologia is printed. In his “Catalogue of Manuscripts relating to Ireland now found in the Burgundian Library, Brussells,” may be seen some intcresting notices of Stephen White and his writings. Thc cataloguc was read before the Royal Irish Academy, May 24th, 1847, and printed in their proceedings.

1. Harris thus regrets the supposed loss of the Apologia: “And pity it is that we are deprived of it. For it must need have been worth the public view, since so good a judge as Archbishop Ussher gives the author the high character of a man of exquisite knowledge in the antiquities not only of Ireland, but also of other nations.” (Ware’s Writers of Ireland.) [The note given her pertains to Fr. Kelly’s preface.]