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A Dictionary of Irish Saints
About this book
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. 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 anglicized) names, subjects, and feastdays. This second edition also incorporates the material from A supplement to A Dictionary of Irish saints (2022).
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European Medieval HistoryIndex
HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyrights
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface
- List of sources
- Abbreviations
- List of provinces & counties
- Introduction
- Dictionary
- Index of civil parishes
- Index of other places
- Index of alternate (mainly anglicized) names
- Index of subjects
- Index of feastdays
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