A dictionary of Irish Saints - Hardcover

O Riain, Padraig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1801511624 ISBN 13: 9781801511629

Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

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. This book is 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, localizations, 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.

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About the Author

Pá draig Ó Riain is professor emeritus of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC, and the previous holder of visiting professorships at Bochum and Freiburg in Germany and at Aberystwyth in Wales.

Edition details

• Publisher: Four Courts Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1801511624
• ISBN 13: 9781801511629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 690