CÉITINN, Seathrún [KEATING, Geoffrey]. Dánta Amhráin , is Caointe Sheathrú in Céitinn, Dochtúir Diadhachta (1570-1650 A.D.). Iar n -a gcruinniughadh AGUS iar n -a gcur i gclodh don chéad uair ag Eoin Cathmhaolach Mac Giolla Eá in.

Baile Átha Cliath : Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1900. Crown octavo. pp. 224. Printed worn wrappers.
Introduction in English. Includes indexes.
Keating is believed to have become P.P. of Cappoquin, and a small silver chalice of his, is still preserved in the parish church, bearing the following inscription: “Dominus Galfridus Keatinge Sacred. He made me Doctor of Sacred Theology, February 23, 1634. (Waterf. Arch. Journ., April, 1895). In the year 1644, he assisted in the building of the chapel of Tiopraid, near Cluain Meala, as we learn from the following inscription above the door of it: “Pray for the souls of Father Eugenius Duhy, vicar of Tybrad and Lord Doctor Galfridius Keating of the founders of this chapel, as well as for all the other priests and laymen whose bodies lie in the same chapel, in the year Lord 1644.” During the war, which broke out in 1641, Dr. Keating was enthusiastically in favour of the Ulster party, otherwise called the Old Irish party, under Eoghan Ruadh Ua Néill. When the two sons of Lord Dunboyne, Thomas and James, fell on the Irish side, in 1642, he lamented them in the fine poem, Mór Antrom inse Banbha (p. 62). He had already written a Caoineadh on their father‟s death in 1640. But his ntimacy with the Butler* family did not dim his clear-sighted patriotism, and we have no finer condemnation of the intrigues of the Ormonde faction, than the magnificent poem Múscail do Mhisneach, a Bhanbha (p. 70). This seems to be his last poetical production. He lived on a few years, and died in 1650, as the night began to darken over his native land. An uncertain tradition has it, that, on the capture of Clonmel, 10th May, 1650, he was murdered in the Church of St. Nicholas, formerly called Teampul na Pláighe, by the Cromwellian soldiers (Wat. Arch. Journ., April, 1895). In addition to the poems contained in this volume, and now for the first time collected and edited, and his three great prose works, Eochair-Scaith an Aifrinn, Trí Bior-ghaethe an Bháis, and Forus Feasa ar Éirinn, Dr. Keating appears to have written two smaller works, one on the Coróin Mhuire or Rosary of the B.V.M., a copy of which, with the name of Seathrún Céitinn at the end, is preserved in the Franciscan Archives, Dublin [now in UCD], and the other entitled Iomagallamh an Anma agus an Chuirp, according to a writer in the Gaelic Journal, No. 103, p. 312. *We have a Caoineadh from him on the death of James Butler, uncle of James, first Duke of Ormonde, whose duplicity ruined the Irish cause „Uch! Is Truaigh mo Ghuais ón Ghleobhroid‟ (p.24).

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