Thursday, June 21, 2012

The role of the Anmcara in the Early Irish Church

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RIA MS 23 P 3 f 14v The Rules of Carthach and Cormac The role of the Anmcara (Soul Friend) was vitally important in the early Irish ch...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

It's Sunday evening and I'm wrecked

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RIA MS 23 P 16. Page 46 I love the glosses that an Irish scribe added to  an Leabhar Breac . They read something like Tweets or Fa...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Queen Elizabeth II and the Nugent Primer

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Queen Elizabeth II at Dublin Castle 2011 Opening page to Nugent's Primer I remember when Queen Elizabeth II visited Irelan...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Ailerán the Wise: Homily on the Genealogy of Jesus

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A ninth century copy of Ailerán's Interpretatio  MS CSG 433 f.686 Ailerán Sapientis, (i.e. Ailerán the wise), was a fer léigin...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Cummian's Commentary on Mark

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A ninth century copy of Cummian's Commentary from the Irish monastery of s. Gall, MS CSG 127 An Irishman, Cummian Fota from Co...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Marian devotion and the Early Irish Church

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Mary holding Jesus in the Book of Kells, c. 800 Someone asked me recently if the early Irish church held views on Mary similar to what...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

Excerpts from the Litany of the Trinity

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Litany of the Trinity The Litany of the Trinity is an old Irish prayer preserved in several old manuscripts in Britain and Ireland. The...
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