“The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a 1581 book by John Derricke.

The book is dedicated to Philip Sidney. It praises the deputyship of Philip's father Henry Sidney and English victories over the Irish.^[1] The work opens with a poetic history of Ireland and its conflicts with the English, presenting reasons for English rule. This proceeds to a set of twelve woodcut illustrations interspersed with verse narration, describing Henry Sidney's victories of Irish rebels and denigrating Irish culture. The book ends with the surrender of Turlough Luineach Ó Neill, king of Tyrone, in 1578.^[2] Critics, such as James A. Knapp, have deemed the illustrations to be of far greater interest than the unremarkable verse.^[3]

There is only one complete version extant, at the Edinburgh University Library. A copy was produced and edited by the university librarian in 1883.^[4]

Footnotes

1. ^{{cite book|last=Highley|first=Christopher|title=Shakespeare, Spenser, and the crisis in Ireland|year=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521581998|pages=44–45|edition=1. publ.}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEgal~5~5~76216~105827:Image-of-Irelande,-pl-3|accessdate=1 August 2013|publisher=University of Edinburgh|title=Image of Irelande, pl 3}}
3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Knapp|first1=James A.|title=That most barbarous Nacion’: John Derricke’s ‘Image of Ireland’ and the ‘delight of the well disposed reader’|journal=Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts|date=2000|volume=42|pages=416}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/docs/lib-archive/bgallery/Gallery/researchcoll/ireland.html|accessdate=1 August 2013|title=The Image of Irelande, by John Derrick|publisher=University of Edinburgh}}

References

Andrew Hadfield, "Derricke, John (fl. 1578–1581)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004, accessed 27 July 2010

James A. Knapp, "'That moste barbarous Nacion': John Derricke's Image of Ireland and the 'delight of the well disposed reader'", findarticles.com, 2000

Anthony M. McCormack and Terry Clavin, "Derricke, John", Dictionary of Irish Biography, (Eds.) James Mcguire and James Quinn, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

External links

The Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne

Woodcuts from The Image of Irelande, Edinburgh University Library

[https://archive.org/details/imageofirelandew00derr The Image of Irelande], 1883 reprint with introduction and notes, downloadable in multiple formats from Archive.org

Richard Marsh's explanation of plate 3

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