saw the publication of De Praesulibus Hiberniae Commentarius, he began a brief though fruitful collaboration with Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh. It was later stated that "He always kept in his House an Irish Amanuensis to interpret and translate the Language for him, and at the Time of his Death one Dubley Firbisse served him in that Office." References Sources Alan Ford, James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in early-modern Ireland and England (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007) Further reading Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie, 'James Ussher and his Irish Manuscripts', Studia Hibernica, no. 33 (2004-2005), pp 81–99 Mark Empey, 'Value-free' history? The scholarly network of Sir James Ware', History Ireland, 20:2 (2012), pp 20–3 Nollaig Ó Muraíle,The Celebrated Antiquary: Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c. 1600–1671), his lineage, life and learning (Maynooth, 1996). Michael Herity, 'Rathmulcah, Ware and MacFirbisigh', Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 33 (1970), pp 49–53 Graham Parry, The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995), pp 153–6 Mark Williams, 'Lacking Ware, withal': finding Sir James Ware among the many incarnations of his histories' in Jason McElligott and Eve Patten (eds), The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in theory and practice (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp 64–81 https://www.historyireland.com/early-modern-history-1500-1700/value-free-history-the-scholarly-network-of-sir-james-ware/ https://www.confessio.ie/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090819161839/http://members.cox.net/wdegidio/ware/WaresofIreland.htm 1594 births 1666 deaths 17th-century Irish historians Irish genealogists Irish expatriates in France Irish expatriates in the United Kingdom Writers from Dublin (city) Irish book and manuscript collectors Irish chroniclers Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Dublin University Irish MPs 1634–1635 Irish MPs 1639–1649 Irish Latinists Irish MPs 1661–1666