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 from the chronicles ‘in a tame strain, not exceedingly bad, but still farther from good’ (, Literature of Europe, 1854, ii. 148). A second edition appeared at London, 1582, 8vo, with the addition of Ocland's ‘Εἰρηναρχία,’ and of Alexander Neville's Latin poem on Kett's rebellion. 2. ‘Εἰρηναρχία siue Elisabetha. De pacatissimo Angliæ statu, imperante Elizabetha, compendiosa narratio. Huc accedit illustrissimorum virorum, qui aut iam mortui fuerunt, aut hodie sunt Elisabethæ Reginæ à consiliis, perbreuis Catalogus,’ London, 1582, 8vo; dedicated in hexameters to Mildred, lady Burghley. A translation into English by ‘Iohn Sharrock’ appeared under the title of ‘Elizabeth Queene,’ black letter, London (R. Waldegrave), 1585, 4to. The copy of this translation, preserved in the Grenville Library, is believed to be unique. There afterwards appeared in English verse, ‘The Pope's Farwel; or Queen Ann's Dream. Containing a True Prognostick of her own Death. … Written originally in Latine Verse by Mr. Christopher Ocland, and printed in the Year 1582. Together with some few Remarques upon the late Plot, or Non-Con-Conspiracy’ [London, 1680?], 4to. 3. ‘Elizabetheis, siue de Pacatissimo et Florentissimo Angliæ Statu sub Fœlicissimo Augustissimæ Reginæ Elizabethæ Imperio. Liber secundus. In quo præter cetera, Hispanicæ classis profligatio, Papisticarumque molitionum & consiliorum hostilium mira subversio, bona fide explicantur,’ in verse, London (T. Orwin), 1589, 4to. 4. ‘The Fountaine and Welspring of all Variance, Sedition, and deadlie Hate. Wherein is declared at large the Opinion of the famous Diuine Hipcrius and the consent of the Doctors from S. Peter the Apostle his Time and the Primitiue Church in order to this Age: expressly set downe, that Rome in Italie is signified and noted by the name of Babylon, mentioned in the 14. 17. and 18 Chapters of the Reuelation of S. Iohn,’ London (R. Ward), 1589, 4to. Dedicated to the Earls of Huntingdon and Warwick. 

O'CLERY, LUGHAIDH (fl. 1609), Irish historian, son of Maccon, chief of the O'Clerys of Donegal, was ninth in descent from Cormac MacDiarmada O'Clerigh, an ollav of the civil and canon law, who migrated before 1382 to Donegal from Tirawley, co. Mayo, and whose descendants were devoted to literature. Lughaidh succeeded his father as chief of the sept in 1595. He took part in 1600 in the ‘Iomarbadh na bfiledh,’ or contention between the bards of the north and the south of Ireland, in four poems amounting to 1,520 verses. ‘A Thaidhg na tathaoir Torna’ (‘O Tadhg, revile not Torna’); ‘Do chuala ar thagrais a Thaidhg’ (‘I have heard all you have pleaded, O Tadhg’); ‘Na brosd meise a mheic Daire’ (‘Provoke me not, MacDaire’); ‘An ccluine me a mheic Daire’ (‘Do you hear me, O MacDaire?’), in answer to Tadhg MacDaire MacBruaidedh. His most interesting work is his ‘Life of Aodh Ruadh O'Donnell’ [see ], which is not a mere chronicle, but a biography of much literary merit. It begins with the parentage, and ends with the death of Aodh Ruadh in Spain in 1602. O'Donnell's history, with its many adventures, is admirably told in literary but not pedantic Irish, and the composition is free from the archaic and sometimes stilted diction found in parts of the ‘Annals of the Four Masters.’ It was written down from his father's dictation by Cucoigcriche O'Clery [see below], whose original manuscript is in the Royal Irish Academy. A text and translation of it were made by Edward O'Reilly in 1820 (Irish Writers, p. 90), and an edition based upon these has been published, with an elaborate introduction, by the Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J. The date of O'Clery's death is not known, but it is certain that he was not living in 1632.

The son, (d. 1664), Irish chronicler, was chief of his family, and was born at Kilbarron, co. Donegal. He was one of the body of learned men who under the general direction of Michael O'Clery [q. v.] compiled the collection of chronicles known as the ‘Annals of the Four Masters.’ He made a copy of the ‘Leabhar Gabhala,’ one of the poems of O'Dubhagain and O'Huidhrin, and one of Irish genealogies now in the library of the Royal Irish Academy. His Irish handwriting was clear, the characters somewhat rounder than those of Michael O'Clery. A facsimile of his writing is given in O'Curry's ‘Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History.’ He wrote ‘Ionmhuin an laoidh leaghthar sunn’ (‘Dear the lay which is read here’), a long poem for the Calbhach Ruadh O'Donnell, praising his love of learning and learned men, and the goodness of his wife; and ‘Mo Mhallacht ort a shaoghal’ (‘My curse on thee, O world!’), a longer poem addressed to Toirdhealbhach, son of Cathbarr O'Donnell.