An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland. From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to the Settlement under King William. With the State of the Irish Catholics, from that settlement to the Relaxation of the Popery Laws, in the Year 1778. Extracted from Parliamentary Records, State Acts, and other Authentic Materials. Dublin: Conolly, 1810. A New and improved Edition. Pp xxvii, 660, + index. Recent quarter cloth over marbled boards. A nice bright copy.

A landmark 18th-century Catholic rebuttal to Protestant narratives of Irish history, offering a detailed and sympathetic account of Ireland’s conflicts from the Elizabethan era to the Williamite settlement. It challenged dominant Protestant accounts and laid the groundwork for later nationalist historiography.

John Curry (d. 1780), was a Dublin-born Catholic physician and historian. This work  is one of the first major Catholic histories of Ireland written in English. The first edition appeared in 1747.