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1 online resource (660 pages) |
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data file rda |
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Dictionary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 11-34) and indexes. |
| Summary |
"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. A Dictionary of Irish Saints serves as a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints - containing information on such matters as feastdays, localizations, chronology, and genealogies - has never before been satisfied. Author Padraig O Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of 40 years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in A Dictionary of Irish Saints has come from a variety of sources, including lives of the saints, martyrologies, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents."--Publisher's description. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of sources -- List of abbreviations -- List of provinces and counties -- Introduction -- Dictionary -- Index of civil parishes -- Index of other places -- Index of alternate (mainly anglicized) names -- Index of subjects -- Index of feastdays |
| Subject |
Christian saints -- Ireland -- Biography.
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Christian saints -- Ireland -- Dictionaries.
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Christian saints. (OCoLC)fst00859491
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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Heiliger.
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Irland.
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Helgon -- Irland -- lexikon.
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| Added Title |
Irish saints |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ó Riain, Pádraig. Dictionary of Irish saints. Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, ©2011 9781846823183 (DLC) 2011414518 (OCoLC)744284354 |
| ISBN |
9781846828959 (electronic book) |
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1846828953 (electronic book) |
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