The adventures of Telemachus :
the son of Ulysses, by the Archbishop of Cambray: in French and English. The original carefully printed according to the best editions of France and Holland: and the translation, which is entirely new, revised by Mr. Des Maizeaux, F.R.S. Embellished with cuts. In two volumes. ...
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| In collection: | Patrick O Neill Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
printed for Peter Wilson,
1756.
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| Edition: | The third edition corrected, and rendered more literal. |
| Notes: | Parallel French and English texts. Library has: Vol. I. In two volumes, volume I is from Dix Collection, volume II is from Pádraig O'Neill Collection. The Archbishop of Cambrai is more widely known as the writer Fenelon. This is a version of Ulysses, or the Odyssey story, of Homer, a theme worked later by James Joyce. This work was published in 1699. There is a hidden story behind the open story in this version in which Fenelon displays his political opinions. He had a most liberal view at a time when religion and politics were often mixed in a lethal compound. He was ecumenical in religious affairs at a time when Protestants suffered. Catholics inflicted discrimination and persecution on Protestants in France and Spain, and Ireland. His democratic political views, while not as advanced as the liberal democratic views of the late 20th Century were far in advance of the accepted views in vogue in France up to the time of the Revolution. It is highly probable that this book influenced Patrick O'Neill and his family in the political development which led them from Jacobite monarchism to republicanism in the late 18th century. In this part of Munster it was the children of those who sang and lived in hope of "the true king", in the person of a Stuart; who were ready to welcome the "sharp edged Frenchman", an Francach Faobhrach, on the sunny slopes of Slievenamon in the Year of Liberty, 1798. Physical description: 2v.,plates ; 12mo more |
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Patrick O Neill Collection |