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18%OFFLeo Daly (Ed.) - Life of Colman of Lynn - 9781901866353 - V9781901866353
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Life of Colman of Lynn

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Description for Life of Colman of Lynn Hardcover. This title is a 13th-century "Life" of a 7th-century saint Colman. It provides a rich description of the lives of the Irish saints, replete with details of the daily life of the monasteries, their royal patrons and subjects, dwelling among miracle workers and the vagaries of plague, famine and war. Translator(s): Meyer, Kuno. Num Pages: 160 pages, 6 b&w & 10 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; HBJD1; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160. .

This work, whose full title is Life of Colman, son of Luachain, or Betha Colmain maic Luachain, is a thirteenth-century Life of a seventh-century saint Colman (who first gave Mullingar its name, ‘the wry mill’, An Muileann gCearr), written originally in Irish at Lynn monastery south of Mullingar, preserved at the Rennes Municipal Library in Brittany, and translated and published by Kuno Meyer in 1911. This Life provides one of the most important sources for the ecclesiastical, topographical, social and political history of life in the midlands during the Early Christian era. Next to the Tripartite Life of Patrick and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781901866353
SKU
V9781901866353
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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LEO DALY, a native of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, is a distinguished writer, broadcaster and photo-journalist. His books include James Joyce & the Mullingar Connection (1975) and a guide-book, Oileain Arann (1975), Titles (1981), a collection of essays, and The Rock Garden (1984), a novel.

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