Early Irish Saints

Author : John J. Ó Ríordáin
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
ISBN 13 : 9781782182962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Irish Saints written by John J. Ó Ríordáin and published by Columba Press (IE). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These short, popular essays on fourteen well-known and well-loved early Irish saints present a very readable and informative amalgam of often-scarce historical fact and much folklore and legend.

Author : John J. Ó Ríordáin
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Irish Saints written by John J. Ó Ríordáin and published by Columba Press (IE). This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short essays on 14 well-known and well-loved early Irish saints.

Author : Pádraig Ó Riain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846823183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Irish Saints written by Pádraig Ó Riain and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. Professor Pádraig Ó Riain's Dictionary of Irish Saints is intended to serve as a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a Preface, List of Sources and Introduction, and is followed by comprehensive Indices of Parishes, Other Places (mainly townlands), Alternate (mainly Anglicised) Names, Subjects, and Feastdays. Professor Ó Riain's Dictionary has been described as 'an astonishingly comprehensive, intelligent and well-organized work'; it is unlikely to be superseded for many decades to come.

Author : Lisa M. Bitel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711776
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isle of the Saints written by Lisa M. Bitel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.

Author : Robert T. Reilly
Publisher : Wings
ISBN 13 : 9780517368336
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Saints written by Robert T. Reilly and published by Wings. This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trials and successes of the twelve Irish saints including Ireland's Patron Saint Patrick, Saint Brigid, who founded Ireland's first community of sisters, and many others who were either canonized or saintly laypersons. A classic volume providing insight into the facts and legends of these remarkable people.

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307755134
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Irish Saved Civilization written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.

Author : Four Courts Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846829314
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Tipperary Saints written by Four Courts Press and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kuno Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Cáin Adamnáin written by Kuno Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Flechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217467
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saint Patrick Retold written by Roy Flechner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick's travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty years to explore Patrick's career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.

Author : Henry Joseph Monck Mason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion of the Ancient Irish Saints written by Henry Joseph Monck Mason and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: