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  • d. 550s
legendary seer, best known from literary sources as an Irish prophet associated with Díarmait mac Cerbaill

Béccán mac Cúla See: Béccán of Emlagh

  • Clúain Ard Mo Béccóc
  • supp. fl. 6th century
  • Imlech Beccáin
Béccán/Beccán mac Cúla/Cula, patron saint of Imlech Fiaich (Emlagh, Co. Meath) near Kells.
  • s. xx–xxi
  • 1924–2004
  • d. 735
English monk at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow; author of the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum and works on various religious and theological subjects.
  • d. 1642
  • Kilmore, Co. Cavan
English churchman, bishop of Kilmore, Co. Cavan (Church of Ireland); commissioned and assisted an Irish translation of the Old Testament (Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna), printed in 1684.
Dutch linguist and Indo-Europeanist.

Begley (Conor) See: Conchobhar Ó Beaglaoich

Béinne Britt See: Benne Brit

Hostel-keeper of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of tales.

Public library, which opened in Royal Avenue in 1888, then as the Free Public Library, and was originally run by Belfast Corporation (for some time as part of Belfast Free Public Library, Art Gallery and Museum). Since 2009, it is run by Libaries NI (Northern Ireland Library Authority). In 1989, it acquired Irish-language manuscripts (Bryson & MacAdam manuscripts) which were previously owned by the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and kept for some time in the Ulster Museum.