For Gerald of Wales, religion was one of the most essential aspects of being a civilized human being. Therefore, when he wrote The History and Topography of Ireland, he described 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, to identify them as “the others.” 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, Borderlands: The Bodies of Gerald of Wales," focuses closely on Gerald's cultural hybridity, which mirrors his accounts of the Irish . Although he considered the Irish barbarians, they were also hybrids, so he also shared a feeling of displacement with them. Nonetheless, they still held themselves to a higher standard because they did not celebrate Christianity properly, ultimately leading them to make other unpleasant decisions. It is not obvious in The History and Topography of Ireland that Gerald is a hybrid, but when reading Cohen alongside the book, it seems that the negative portrayal of the Irish was intentional for personal reasons. In his chapter, Cohen states: “Gerald of Wales suggest[ion] that medieval hybridity is the blending of categories, traumas, and temporalities that reconfigure what it means to be human. Medieval hybridity is intrinsically monstrous” (89). In his proposal, Gerald demonstrates the rejection of any type of mixing between cultures, races and species. Even though he believes that hybridity constitutes a lack of humanity, considering it bestial, it was quite easy to use the idea of ​​hybridity to turn people against the Irish. Cohen goes on to explain that Gerald's lyrics, including "Topographia Hibernica, are reductive lyrics that blatantly glorify the invasion of Ireland" (94). History and typography of Ireland, have only made it clearer to its readers that something must be done for the Irish, because colonization would "help" the beasts. It seems that Gerald always suppressed any feeling of connection between himself and any hybrid, so it would only be to suggest that his book would also have the aim of turning people against the heinous and immoral hybridity of the Irish. Gerald of Wales has most likely never been to Ireland, and his writings are not an accurate portrayal of the Irish, but an opportunity to discuss hybridity and turn his readers, even Irish ones, against it.