The Latin Lives of St Laurence of Dublin

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

A dictionary of Irish saints

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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. Professor Pádraig...
Author/Editor: Pádraig Ó Riain

A supplement to A Dictionary of Irish Saints

Containing additions and corrections

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*To be bought in conjunction with A Dictionary of Irish Saints* In the ten years since its publication by Four Courts Press in 2011 *A dictionary of Irish saints *has...
Author/Editor: Pádraig Ó Riain

Teresa Ball and Loreto education

Convents and the Colonial World, 1794-1875

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Educated at the Bar Convent, York, Teresa Ball became a pioneer of girls’ education when she returned to Ireland in 1821 and opened Loreto Abbey convent and...
Author/Editor: Deirdre Raftery

Four Tipperary saints

The lives of Colum of Terryglass, Crónán of Roscrea, Mochaomhóg of Leigh and Ruadhán of Lorrha

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When St Patrick was leaving Munster via the Little Brosna river, close to Tipperary’s northern boundary, he is said to have given a blessing to the province’s...
Author/Editor: Pádraig Ó Riain

Four Offaly Saints

The Lives of Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Ciarán of Seir, Colmán of Lynally and Fíonán of Kinnitty

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Lying just south of the line that divided Ireland’s two halves, Leath Chuinn to the north and Leath Mhogha to the south, the churches of the present...
Author/Editor: Pádraig Ó Riain

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