Ultán of Ardbraccan
- d. 657
- feast-day: 4 September, 13 July
- Irish poets, abbots, saints of Ireland
- Ard Breccáin
Irish poet and saint, abbot at Ard Breccáin (Ardbraccan) in Co. Meath.
See also: GailengaGailenga
See more Colla ingen DímmaiColla ingen Dímmai
See more TírechánTírechán
(c. 690)
Irish bishop and author of the Collectanea about St Patrick
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Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more Colla ingen DímmaiColla ingen Dímmai
Entry reserved for but not yet available from the subject index.
See more TírechánTírechán
(c. 690)
Irish bishop and author of the Collectanea about St Patrick
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See also references for related subjects.
Ó Riain, Pádraig, A dictionary of Irish saints, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.
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, 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.
Stalmans, Nathalie, and T. M. Charles-Edwards, “Meath, saints of (act. c.400–c.900)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2007–. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51010>.
Howlett, David, “Vita I sanctae Brigitae”, Chronicon 1 (1997): 5: 1–31. URL: <http://xml.ucc.ie/chronicon/howfra.htm>.
abstract:
Evidence is presented here for the orthographic, grammatical, and syntactical correctness and the computistic and architectonic competence of composition of Vita I sanctae Brigitae, its priority to and influence on the Vita II by Cogitosus of Kildare, and its authorship by Aileranus Sapiens, lector of Clonard, who died in 665.
