of 1641 and Confederate Ireland in the 1640s. A rough portrait of Mac Carthaig was taken to France in 1776 by a collateral kinsman, Justin Mac Carthaig (1744–1811) of Springhouse, Bansha, County Tipperary, who was a direct descendant of Dónal na Pípí and was going into exile because of the harsh treatment in Ireland of Catholics under the Penal Laws. The portrait was kept in the mansion at 3, Rue Mage in the city of Toulouse where he resided as Count MacCarthy-Reagh of Toulouse. The Count was noted for his rich library which in importance was second only to the King's in Paris. An anonymous writer in 1686 wrote of Fínghin mac Donncha Mac Carthaig, drawing on a contemporary description in Pacata Hibernia, 'Of all the MacCarthys, none was ever more famous than…Florence, who was a man of extraordinary stature (being like Saul higher by the head and shoulders than any of his followers) and as great policy with competent courage and as much zeal as anybody for what he falsely imagined to be the true religion, and the liberty of his country. However, his rival Donal "the bastard" MacCarthy described him as "a damned counterfeit Englishman whose study and practice was to deceive and betray all the Irishmen in Ireland". See also Irish nobility Eóganachta Tudor conquest of Ireland Nine Years' War (Ireland) Mac Carthaigh's Book References Notes Sources Richard Bagwell, Ireland under the Tudors 3 vols. (London, 1885–1890). John O'Donovan (ed.) Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters (1851). Calendar of State Papers: Carew MSS. 6 vols (London, 1867–1873). Calendar of State Papers: Ireland (London) Colm Lennon Sixteenth Century Ireland – The Incomplete Conquest (Dublin, 1995) . Nicholas P. Canny Making Ireland British, 1580–1650 (Oxford University Press, 2001). . Steven G. Ellis Tudor Ireland (London, 1985). . Hiram Morgan Tyrone's War (1995). Cyril Falls Elizabeth's Irish Wars (1950; reprint London, 1996). . Dictionary of National Biography 22 vols. (London, 1921–1922): of questionable accuracy in parts, but very useful. Richard Cox, Hibernia Anglicana, London, 1689. Daniel McCarthy, The Life and Letter book of Florence McCarthy Reagh, Tanist of Carberry, Dublin 1867. John O’Donovan, (translator), The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters [Annála Ríoghachta Éireann], Vol. 6, ed. John O'Donovan (Dublin, 1848–51) at http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html Stafford, Thomas, Pacata Hibernia 3 Vols. (1633), London 1810, also published in Dublin 1896 (Standish Hayes O'Grady ed.) MacCarthy dynasty Irish lords