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  Saint Patrick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While Patrick encouraged the Irish to become monks and nuns, it is not certain that he was a monk himself.
His Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus protested British slave trading and the slaughter of a group of Irish Christians by Coroticus's raiding Christian Welshmen, and is the first surely identified literature of the British or Celtic Catholic Church[2].
Patrick, arch-apostle, or archbishop and apostle of the Irish, rested on the 16th of the Kalends of April in the 120th year of his age, in the 60th year after he had come to Ireland to baptize the Irish.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._Patrick   (1544 words)

  
 Saint Patrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
While Patrick encouraged the Irish to become monks and nuns, it is not certain that he was a monk himself; it is even less likely that in his time the monastery became the principal unit of the Irish Church, although it was in later periods.
Legend also credits Patrick with teaching the Irish about the concept of the Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a three-leaved clover, using it to highlight the Christian dogma of three divine persons in the one god (as opposed to the Arian heresy that was popular in Patrick's time).
It is believed that March 17 was his death date (according to the Encyclopedia Britannica) and it is the date popularly associated with him as his feast, known as St.
saint-patrick.iqnaut.net   (897 words)

  
 DUBLIN - Online Information article about DUBLIN
Palladian facade (1759), with two good statues by Foley, of See also:
The scholars on the foundation (or " of the House ") are chosen from among the undergraduates, for merit in classics, mathematics or experimental science.
dissolution under the Irish Universities Act 1908, which provided for a new university at Dublin, to which the building was transferred under the act (see IRELAND: See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /DRO_ECG/DUBLIN.html   (4248 words)

  
 Richard Castle - Great Buildings Online
Richard Castle was born in 1695 in Kassel, Hesse, Germany.
Arriving in Dublin in 1728 from London, where he probably established contact with Lord Burlington's circle, he became the assistant and protege of Edward Lovett Pearce, a leading Irish Palladian.
He used a particularly robust and masculine Palladian style that was quite distinctive.
www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Richard_Castle.html   (173 words)

  
 Hurdy-gurdy Discography
Mixes equal parts Irish, Breton, and "Other" Celtic, with a little Bulgarian thrown in for good measure.
He is reputed to have built his instrument from a kit." [JS] His hurdy-gurdy looks like the EMS Henry III model kit from the photo we've seen (see the reference in the invisible hurdy-gurdies section).
John Trexler plays hurdy-gurdy on at least one track of this very nice CD of Irish, Scottish, Shetland, and Laois tunes.
www.hurdygurdy.com /info/disc.htm   (8835 words)

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