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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tighernach O'Braein
Irish annalist and Abbot of Roscommon and Clonmacnoise, died 1088.
His "Annals" (among the earliest of Irish annals) are of the greatest value to the historian of Ireland because of the author's attempt to synchronize Irish events with those of the rest of Europe from the earliest times to his own day.
But his sources for the Irish portions of the "Annals" are not now discoverable because of the loss of the Irish manuscripts from which he drew his information.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11193a.htm   (252 words)

  
 magoo.com: Hugh McGoughs in History by Hugh McGough
Irish Christian Names—Boys lists Aidan, Aodán, Aodhán, and Aodhagán as different spellings of the same name and says that they are all equivalent to the English Hugh, as is Aodh, which is listed separately.
Eochaidh Doimhlen was a son of Cairbre Liffeachair, Irish Kings #117, a grandson of Cormac MacArt, Irish Kings #115, and a brother of Fiacha Sraibhtine, Irish Kings #120.
Living with him was his wife, age 40, born in Minnesota to Irish parents, mother of four children, all of whom were living in the family home and all of whom were born in Minnesota: John R., age 13; Marie, age 11; Hugh E., age 10; and William A., age 8.
www.magoo.com /hugh/hugh.html   (15198 words)

  
 Saint Patrick Details, Meaning Saint Patrick Article and Explanation Guide
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).
He died in 491 AD according to the latest reconstruction of the old Irish annals (http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/chronology/synchronisms/annals-chron.htm).
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.
www.e-paranoids.com /s/sa/saint_patrick.html   (624 words)

  
 Jeremiah
He was the first of the Irish kings to FORTIFY AND BUILD EMBANKMENTS around the city of Tara, and to clear the plains and build forts throughout the land.
The Irish and Scottish annals show that this famous stone was taken to Spain by GATHELUS, the son of Calcol, and then to Ireland (after his death) by his wife SCOTA and son Heremon.
As Hoeh said,...The Annals of the Four Masters reads: "TEA, the daughter of LUGAIDH, SON OF ITHA, who Eremhon married IN SPAIN." This Tea is an altogether different person from the Tea who came more than four centuries later to the Irish Isles.
www.biblemysteries.com /library/jeremiah.htm   (7078 words)

  
 World Ancestry - Roots In Antiquity
Additionally Irish genealogies or names were capable of being preserved by each new generation of poets from at least the second century A.D., "on 'tablet-staves', as the manuscripts call them, the catchwords of many poems, sagas and genealogies."
Material of the fifth century A.D. and before, indicates that it is indeed credible to assert the transmission of an Irish annals written record, as suggested by the internal commentary within the surviving records themselves.
Irish Tea, is listed as the daughter of Lughaidh [LIGHT or RADIANCE], the son of Ioth, son of Breoghan, a son of Bratha [judgment, gu bràth, for ever (pron.
www.academic-genealogy.com /worldancestry.htm   (3556 words)

  
 St. Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh - Founded by the Saint in 445 A.D.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, tradition accords him the most impact, and his missions do seem to have been concentrated in the provinces of Ulster and Connaught which had never received Christians before.
He died in 491 AD according to the latest reconstruction of the old Irish annals 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. Patrick's Day.
Patrick's Breast-Plate (above) is believed to have been composed by the Saint in preparation for this victory over Paganism.
www.stpatricks-cathedral.org /stpatrick.htm   (564 words)

  
 Articles - Saint Patrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
One of the traits which he retained as an old man was a consciousness of his being an unlearned exile and former slave and fugitive, who learned to trust God completely.
Patrick died in 493 AD according to the latest reconstruction of the old Irish annals.
www.1hunting.com /articles/Saint_Patrick   (843 words)

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