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Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced is a book which is a mostly firsthand account of Tyrone's Rebellion in the province of Munster in Ireland, during 1601 to 1603, at the end of what later became known as the Nine Years' War.

The book was published in London in 1634, and was edited and probably written by Sir Thomas Stafford, a high ranking military officer, courtier, and member of Parliament, who was the illegitimate son of Sir George Carew, the president of Munster during the Tudor conquest of Ireland.

Pacata Hibernia details many of the events of these years in southern Ireland, mostly concerning Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Hugh Roe O'Donnell, two chieftains who unsuccessfully resisted the English invasion of the 1590s. The events recounted in the book include the Battle of Kinsale, the Siege of Dunboy, and O'Sullivan's March. Other prominent personages in the book include Don Juan de Aguila, Donal O'Sullivan Beare, Sir George Carew, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy.

Overview
The subtitle of Pacata Hibernia is

"An Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster, under the Government of Sir George Carew, Knight, then Lord President of that Province, and afterwards Lord Carew of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. Wherein the Siedge of Kinsale, the Defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his Armie; the Expulsion and sending home of Don Juan de Aguila, the Spanish Generall, with his Forces; and many other remarkable passages of that time are related."

The book also includes 17 maps illustrating the various aspects of the campaign.

Published 30 years after the end of the war, Pacata Hibernia was not the first published account on the subject, but it was the only one written exclusively about the events, and by an eyewitness. The first book was Fynes Morrison's 1617 Itinerary, a huge travelogue written by Mountjoy's secretary, who included a small summary of the events. The second was Phillip O'Sullivan Beare's Historiae Catholicae Hiberniae Compendium (History of Catholic Ireland), published in Spain in 1621 and written entirely in Latin.

Historian Standish O'Grady, in his preface to the 1896 edition, described the book:

"its atmosphere, unlike that of any modern book treating of the times, is the atmosphere of the age; in every sentence we breathe the air of the sixteenth century; we are in the presence of actualities, face to face with real and actual men, can almost hear them speak, and feel around us the play of the passions and the working of ideas and purposes so characteristic of that age, so foreign to our own."

Authorship
Whether Thomas Stafford actually wrote the book, and did not just edit it as the book itself claims, remains a mystery.