Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: G201020

Life of St. Declan of Ardmore

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Patrick Power

Electronic edition compiled by Benjamin Hazard

Proof corrections by Paul O'Rahilly

Funded by University College, Cork and
Professor Marianne McDonald via the CELT Project

2. Second draft.

Extent of text: 12575 words

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Text ID Number: G201020

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Irish Texts Society [Comann na Sgríbheann Gaedhilge]
Text ID Number: 16

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Sources

    Manuscript sources
  1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS 4190–4200 [in the handwriting of Mícheál Ó Cléirigh].
  2. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS 23 M 50, pp 109–120. This is a copy (dated 1740) of one imperfect exemplar.
    Edition
  1. Charles Plummer (ed.), Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae (2 vols, Oxford 1910) ii, 32–59. (Latin Life)
    Literature
  1. James Ussher, A discourse of the religion anciently professed by the Irish and British (Dublin 1631).
  2. John O'Donovan (ed.), Miscellany of the Celtic Society (Dublin 1859) 1–144.
  3. Eugene O'Curry, Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History (Dublin 1861).
  4. Patrick Power, Log-ainmneacha na nDéise: The place names of Decies (Dublin 1907).
  5. P. J. O'Donnell, The Christian episcopate in Ireland before St Patrick, Ecclesiastical Review 58 (1911) 258–74.
  6. Charles Plummer (ed.), Beatha naem nÉrenn (Oxford 1922).
  7. James Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland (2 vols, New York 1929).
  8. Patrick Power, Ardmore-Deaglain: its founder and early Christian memorials (Dublin 1931).
  9. Paul Grosjean, Notes sur quelques sources de Antiquitates de Jacques Ussher, Analecta Bollandiana 77 (1959) 154–87.
  10. M. A. O'Brien, Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae, vol. I (Dublin 1962).
  11. Kim McCone, An introduction to early Irish saints Lives, Maynooth Review 11 (1984) 26–59.
  12. Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, The Déisi and Dyfed, Éigse 20 (1984) 1–33.
  13. Richard Sharpe, Quatuor Sanctissimi Episcopi: Irish saints before St Patrick, in: Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Liam Breatnach and Kim McCone (eds.), Sages, saints and storytellers: Celtic Studies in Honour of Professor James Carney (Maynooth 1989) 376–99.
  14. Richard Sharpe, Medieval Irish Saints' Lives (Oxford 1991).
  15. A. A. Colmcille, Where was Sliabh gCua?, in Decies: Journal of the Waterford Archaeological & Historical Society 46 (1992) 5–9.
  16. T. G. Fewer, The ruined church of Killea: a consideration of its date and foundation, in Decies: Journal of the Waterford Archaeological & Historical Society 52 (1996) 151–167.
  17. F. J. Byrne, Irish kings and high-kings (London 1973, reprint Dublin 2001).
  18. Dónal Ó Conchúir, Ardmore and Lismore: the Christian antiquities of Ardmore and the legacy of the Lismore monastery (Waterford 2001).
  19. Philip Rance, Attacotti, Déisi and Magnus Maximus: the case for Irish federates in late Roman Britain, in Britannia 32 (2001) 243–70.
  20. Pádraig Ó Riain, Irish saints' cults and ecclesiastical families, in: Alan Thacker and Richard Sharpe (eds.), Local saints and local churches in the early medieval west (Oxford 2002) 291–302.
  21. Pádraig Ó Riain, A dictionary of Irish Saints (Dublin 2011), 258–260 (with bibliography).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, with an introduction, translation and notes, by Rev. P. Power, M.R.I.A., University College, Cork. Patrick Power (ed), First edition [xxxi + 202 pp. (Errata; v Preface; vii–xxxi Introduction; 1 plate [Principality of Decies]; 1–73 Life of St. Declan; 74–147 Life of St. Mochuda; 150–177 Notes to Life of Declan; 178–195 Notes to Life of Mochuda, 196–202 Index.)] Irish Texts SocietyLondon (1914)

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Created: copied by Michél Ó Clérigh from the book of Eochaidh Ó hIfearnáin Date range: 1582–1629.

Use of language

Language: [GA] The text is in Early Modern Irish.
Language: [LA] Some text is in Latin.
Language: [EN] Some footnotes are in English.

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