Ware, Sir James

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Ware, Sir James (1594–1666), the major Irish antiquarian of his age. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, under Ussher, Ware became auditorgeneral (1632) and supported Wentworth and Ormond. His main interest was historical research: collecting manuscripts, editing texts, and compiling seminal works on bishops, writers, and antiquities, assisted by Gaelic scribes and scholars, notably MacFirbis (see Literature in Irish). Ware wrote in Latin and pursued objective standards, but later translators and continuators (his son Robert and his grandson‐in‐law Walter Harris) intruded anti‐Catholic sentiments. Ware (together with Ussher) helped create an Anglo‐Irish identity by revealing the ancient Irish past to the New English Protestant ruling class.

Hiram Morgan

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