Saint Patrick - Book List

If you are looking for information on St Patrick, the museum has compiled a bibliography (see below). Some of these books are held in the museum's library which is available by appointment.

ANSCOMBE, A. 'The pedigree of Patrick', Eriu 6 (1911/12) 117-20

BARLEY, M. W & HANSON, R. P. C. (edd.) Christianity in Britain, 300-700. Papers presented to the Conference on Christianity in Roman and Sub-Roman Britain held at the University of Nottingham 17-20 April 1967 (Leicester 1968)

BIELER, Ludwig Codices Patriciani Latini. A Descriptive Catalogue of Latin Manuscripts relating to St Patrick (Dublin 1942)

BIELER, Ludwig The Life and Legend of St Patrick. Problems of Modern Scholarship (Dublin 1949)

BIELER, Ludwig & KELLY, F. (edd. & transl.) The Patrician Texts in the Book of Armagh (Dublin 1979)

BINCHY, D. A. 'Patrick and his biographers, ancient and modern', Studia Hibernica 2 (1962) 7-173

BURY, J. B. The Life of St Patrick and his Place in History (London 1905)

CARNEY, James The Problem of St Patrick (Dublin 1961)

CASEY, P. J. (ed.) The End of Roman Britain. Papers arising from a Conference, Durham 1978 (Oxford 1979)

DE BURCA, S. 'The Patricks: a linguistic interpretation', Lochlann 3 (1965) 278-85

DOHERTY, C. 'The use of relics in early Ireland', in Ireland and Europe, edd. P. Ni Chathain & M. Richter (Stuttgart 1984), pp. 89-101

DRINKWATER, John & ELTON, H. (edd.) Fifth-century Gaul: a Crisis of Identity? (Cambridge 1992)

DUMVILLE, D. N. 'Some British aspects of the earliest Irish christianity', in Ireland and Europe, edd. P. Ni Chathain & M Richter (Stuttgart 1984), pp. 16-24

DUMVILLE, D. N. 'Sub-Roman Britain: history and legend', History, N.S., 62 (1977) 173-92

ESPOSITO, M. 'The Patrician problem and a possible solution', Irish Historical Studies 10 (1956/7) 131-55

GROSJEAN, P. (ed. & transl.) 'An early fragment on Saint Patrick in Ui Briuin Breifne contained in the Life of Saint Benen (Benignus) of Armagh', Seanchas Ardmhacha 1, no. 1 (1954) 31-44

GROSJEAN, P. 'Notes chronologiques sur le sejour de S Patrice en Gaule', Analecta Bollandiana 63 (1945) 73-93

HANSON, R[ichard] P.C. St Patrick, a British Missionary Bishop (Nottingham [1966])

HANSON, Richard P.C. & BLANC, C. (edd. & transl.) Saint Patrick: Confession et Lettre a Coroticus (Paris 1978)

HANSON, R[ichard] P. C. 'The Church in fifth-century Gaul: evidence from Sidonius Apollinaris', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 21 (1970) 1-10

HANSON, R. P. C. 'The date of St Patrick', Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 61 (1978/9) 60-77

HANSON, R[ichard] P. C. (transl.) The Life and Writings of the Historical Saint Patrick (New York 1983)

HANSON, R. P. C. 'The Profession of Patricius and Aetius', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 89 C (1989) 67-70

HAWKES, S. C. 'The South-east after the Romans: the Saxon settlement', in The Saxon Shore, ed. V.A. Maxfield (Exeter 1989), pp. 78-95

HERREN, M. [W.] 'Mission and monasticism in the Confessio of Patrick', in Sages, Saints and Storytellers, edd. D. O'Corrain et al (Maynooth 1989), pp. 76-85

HOOD, A. B. E. (ed. & transl.) St Patrick: His Writings and Muirchu's Life (Chichester 1978)

HOWLETT, D. R. 'Biblical style in early Insular Latin', in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture, edd. P. E. Szarmach & V. D. Oggins (Kalamazoo, Mich. 1986), pp. 127-47

HUGHES, Kathleen Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the Sources (London 1972)

JACKSON, K. H. 'The date of the Tripartite Life of St Patrick', Zeitschrift fur celtische Philologie 41 (1986) 5-45

KENNEY, James, F. The Sources for the Early History of Ireland: Ecclesiastical. An Introduction and Guide (New York 1929; rev. imp., by L. Bieler, 1966)

LAMBKIN, B. K. 'Patrick, Armagh and Emain Macha', Emania 2 (1987) 29 - 31

LAPIDGE, M. 'Columbanus and the "Antiphonary of Bangor"', Peritia 4 (1985) 104 - 16

LAPIDGE, Michael & DUMVILLE, D (edd.) Gildas: New Approaches (Woodbridge 1984)

MAC AIRT, Sean (ed & transl) The Annals of Inisfallen (MS. Rawlinson B 503) (Dublin 1951)

MAC AIRT, Sean & MAC NIOCAILL, G. (edd & transl.) The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131), I (Dublin 1983)

MACINERNY, M. H. 'St Mochta and Bachiarius', Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 5th S., 21 (1923) 468-80 and 618-32; 22 (1923) 153-65 and 573-91

MCMANUS, D. 'The so-called Cothrige and Patraic strata of Latin loan-words in early Irish', in Ireland and Europe, edd. P. Ni Chathain & M. Richter (Stuttgart 1984), pp. 179-96

MACNEILL, E. 'Beginnings of Latin culture in Ireland', Studies 20 (1931) 39-48 and 449-60

MACNEILL, Eoin Saint Patrick (Dublin 1964)

MACNEILL, E. 'The native place of St Patrick', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 37 C (1925-7) 118-40

MARKUS, R. A. 'Chronicle and theology: Prosper of Aquitaine', in The Inheritance of Historiography 350-900, edd. C. Holdsworth & T.P. Wiseman (Exeter 1986), pp. 31-43

MEYER, Kuno Learning in Ireland in the Fifth Century and the Transmission of Letters (Dublin 1913)

MURPHY, Denis (ed.) The Annals of Clonmacnoise, being Annals of Ireland from the Earliest Period to A.D. 1408, translated into English A.D. 1627 by Conell Mageoghagan (Dublin 1896)

MURPHY, G. 'The two Patricks', Studies 32 (1943) 297-307

O'CROININ, D. 'New light on Palladius', Peritia 5 (1986) 276-83

O'DONOVAN, John (ed. & transl.) Annala Rioghachta Eireann. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the Earliest Period to th Year 1616 (2nd edn, 7 vols, Dublin 1856)

O'RAHILLY, Thomas F. Early Irish History and Mythology (Dublin 1946)

O'RAHILLY, Thomas F. The Two Patricks. A Lecture on the History of Christianity in Fifth-century Ireland (Dublin 1942)

PEARCE, S. [M] 'Estates and church sites in Dorset and Gloucestershire: the emergence of a christian society', in The Early Church in Western Britain and Ireland, ed. S.M. Pearce (Oxford 1982), pp. 117-38

PEARCE, Susan M. (ed.) The Early Church in Western Britain and Ireland. Studies presented to C.A. Ralegh Radford arising from a Conference organised in his Honour by the Devon Archaeological Society and Exeter City Museum (Oxfordd 1982)

POWELL, D. 'St Patrick's Confession and the Book of Armagh', Analecta Bollandiana 90 (1972) 371-85

POWELL, D. 'The textual integrity of St Patrick's Confession', Analecta Bollandiana 87 (1969) 387-409

POWELL, T.E. 'Christianity or solar monotheism: the early religious beliefs of St Patrick', Journal of Ecclesiastical History 43 (1992) 531-40

RYAN , John (ed.) Saint Patrick ([Dublin] 1958)

RYAN, J. 'The two Patricks', Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 5th S., 60 (1942) 241-52

SHARPE, R. 'Palaeographical considerations in the study of the Patrician documents in the Book of Armagh', Scriptorium 36 (1982) 3-28

SHARPE, R. 'Quatuor sanctissimi episcopi: Irish saints before St Patrick', in Sages, Saints and Scholars, edd. D. O Corrain et al. (Maynooth 1989), pp. 376-99

SHARPE, R. 'Saint Mauchteus, discipulus Patricii, in Britain 400-600, edd, A. Bammesberger & A. Wollmann (Heidelberg 1990) pp. 85-93

SHARPE, R. 'St Patrick and the see of Armagh', Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 4(1982) 33-59

SHARPE, R. 'The Patrician documents', Peritia 1 (1982) 363-9

SHAW, F. 'The myth of the second Patrick A.D. 461-1961', Studies 50 (1961) 5-27

SLOVER, C.H. 'William of Malmesbury's Life of St Patrick', Modern Philology 24 (1926/7) 5-20

SMYTH, A.P. 'The earliest Irish annals: their first contemporary entries, and the earliest centres of recording', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 72 C (1972) 1-48

STANCLIFFE, C.E. 'Kings and conversion: some comparisons between the Roman mission to England and Patrick's to Ireland', Fruhmittelalterliche Studien 14 91980) 59-94

STOKES, Whitely (ed. & transl.) The Tripartite Life of Patrick, with Other Documents relating to that Saint (2 vols, London 1887)

THOMAS, Charles Christianity in Roman Britain to AD 500 (London 1981)

THOMAS, C. 'Saint Pztrick and fifth-century Britain: an historical model explored', in TheEnd of Roman Britain, ed. P.J. Casey (Oxford 1979), pp. 81-101

THOMPSON, E.A. 'St Patrick and Coroticus', Journal of Theological Studies, N.S., 31 (1980) 12-27

THOMPSON, E.A. Who was Saint Patrick? (Woodbridge 1985)

TODD, James Henthorn St Patrick, Apostle of Ireland. A Memoir of his Life and Mission with an Introductory Dissertation on Some Early Usages of the Church in Ireland, and its Historical Position from the Establishment of the English Colony to the Present Day (Dublin 1864)

WARREN, F.E. The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (2nd edn, by J. Stevenson, Woodbridge 1987)

WHITE, N.J.D. (ed. & transl.) 'Libri sancti Patricci. The Latin writings of St Patrick', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25 C (1904/5) 201-326

WHITE, N.J.D. 'The Paris manuscript of St Patrick's Latin Writings', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25 C (1904/5) 542-52

WINTERBOTTOM, Michael (ed. & transl.) Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and Other Works (Chichester 1978)

WOOD, I. [N.] 'The end of Roman Britain: Continental evidence and parallels', in Gildas: New Approaches, edd. M. Lapidge & D. Dumville (Woodbridge 1984), pp. 1-25

WOOD, I. [N.] 'The fall of the Western empire and the end of Roman Britain', Britannia 18 (1987) 251-62