Renæssanceforum 10

		Renæssanceforum 10 • 2016 Nienke Tjoelker The Threnodia Hiberno-Catholica (1659) and the Irish Franciscan community in the Tyrol close window

		This article focuses on Maurice Conry's Threnodia Hiberno-Catholica (1659) and the Irish Franciscan community in the Tyrol. Conry's work is an example of many Latin works written by Irish exiled clergy on the Continent in the mid-seventeenth century. In this contribution, after outlining the authorial issues, a summary of the contents of the Threnodia is given and then placed in the context of the expatriate clerical Irish of the 1650s. The piece concludes with a section on contemporary reactions to itinerant Irish friars, mainly from within mendicant circles.