Philip O'Sullivan Beare
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Philip O'Sullivan Beare (born in Ireland, c. 1590; died in Spain, 1660) was an Irish soldier and writer.
He was son of Dermot O'Sullivan and nephew of Donal O'Sullivan Beare, Lord of Dunboy. He was sent to Spain in 1602, and was educated at Compostella by Vendamma, a Spaniard, and John Synnott, an Irish Jesuit.
He served in the Spanish army. In 1621 he published his Catholic History of Ireland, a work not always reliable, but valuable for the Irish wars of the author's own day. He also wrote a Life of St. Patrick, a confutation of Gerald Barry and a reply to James Usher's attack on his History.
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- Magee, Irish Writers of the Seventeenth Century (Dublin, 1846);
- O'Sullivan, Catholic History of Ireland, ed. Kelly (Dublin, 1850);
- O'Sullivan, History of Ireland, tr. Byrne (London, 1904)
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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
