Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250

Ireland in the medieval world, AD400–1000

Landscape, kingship and religion

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Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of...
Author/Editor: Edel Bhreathnach

Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in medieval Ireland

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The English royal saint Edmund, king and martyr (d. 869) was venerated in Ireland from at least the twelfth century, and Athassel priory in Co. Tipperary was...
Author/Editor: Francis Young

Two Lives of Saint Brigid

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St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women...
Author/Editor: Philip Freeman

Brides of Christ

Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland

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Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until recently, been relatively sidelined. A desire to redress this inspired the decision in 2021...
Author/Editor: Martin Browne OSB, Tracy Collins, Bronagh Ann McShane & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors

An introduction to early Irish literature

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This book discusses the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600–1200, and is suitable for students of medieval Ireland as well as the...
Author/Editor: Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin

Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan

Life and afterlife of a Donegal Saint

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Adomnán (c.625–704) was ninth abbot of the monastery on Iona off the Scottish coast, and comarba (head) of the confederation of churches associated with St Columba/Colum Cille. Like...
Author/Editor: Brian Lacey

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Cultures and connections

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Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books...
Author/Editor: Claire Breay & Joanna Story, editors

Households of God

The Regular Canons and Canonesses of St Augustine and of Prémontré in Medieval Ireland

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Although the most numerous and widespread of all the religious orders in medieval Ireland, the regular canons and canonesses have been somewhat neglected in Irish historiography. This collection,...
Author/Editor: Martin Browne OSB & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors