For Gerald of Wales, religion was one of the most essential aspects of the life of a civilized human being. Therefore, when he wrote The History and Topography of Ireland, he portrayed its inhabitants as subhuman and barbaric during his apparent travels in Ireland. As a colonizer, Gerald chose a distant place where many had not been, in order to establish himself as “the other.” Unfortunately, for Gerald, he may have ridiculed the Irish for their lifestyle conveyed in his writings, but he most likely exploited them because he could actually relate to them. In the book The Postcolonial Middle Ages, Jeffery Jerome Cohen's analysis in his chapter "Hybrids, Monsters, Borders: The Bodies of Gerald of Wales" focuses closely on Gerald's cultural hybridity, which reflects his accounts of the Irish . Although he viewed the Irish as barbarians, they were also hybrids, so he shared a sense of displacement with them. Nevertheless, he still held himself to a higher standard because they did not celebrate Christianity properly, which ultimately led them to make other unpleasant decisions. It is not obvious in The History and Topography of Ireland that Gerald is a hybrid, but reading Cohen alongside the book it appears that the negative portrayal of the Irish was intentional for personal reasons. In his chapter, Cohen states: “Gérald de Galles suggests that medieval hybridity is a mixture of categories, traumas and temporalities that reconfigure what it means to be human. Medieval hybridity is intrinsically monstrous” (89). In his proposal, Gérald demonstrates the rejection of any type of crossbreeding between cultures, races and species. Although he believes that hybridity constitutes the lack of humanity, his middle of paper considers it bestial, but it was quite easy to use the idea of ​​hybridity to turn people against the Irish. Cohen goes on to explain that Gerald's texts, notably "Topographia Hibernica, are reductive texts that shamelessly glorify the invasion of Ireland" (94). The history and typography of Ireland only made it clearer to its readers that something had to be done for the Irish, because colonization would “help” the beasts. It seems that Gerald always suppressed any sense of connection between himself and any hybrid, which is why it would only be fair to suggest that his book would also have aimed to turn people against the atrocious and immoral hybridity of the Irish. Gerald of Wales was probably never in Ireland, and his writings are not an accurate portrait of the Irish, but a chance to discuss hybridity and turn his readers against it while the Irish do too.