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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE IEISH LIFE OF ST. BEENDAN. INTRODUCTION. IN the following pages are given the text and translation, with some notes, of what may be called the biographical portion of the Betha Brenainn (Irish Life of Brendan) from the Book of Lismore, a MS. containing lives of some of the early Irish saints and many other ancient documents, written, as O'Curry tells us, in Gaelic of great purity and antiquity. It is now the property of the Duke of Devonshire, and is kept in Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, where it was discovered in 1814, by some workmen in a walled-up door or passage, concealed in a wooden box, along with a beautifully worked an', aent crozier; hence its name, Book of Lismore. But it ought to be called rather the Book of MacCarthy Eeagh, for it is now ascertained that it was compiled, in the latter half of the fifteenth century, from the lost Book of Monasterboice and from other ancient MSS. for Finghin MacCarthy Eiabhach, and his wife Catharine, daughter of Thomas, eighth Earl of Desmond. It is also known that it had been seen and examined by Michael O'Clery, one of the Four Masters, in Timoleague Abbey, Co. Cork, on the 20th June, 1629. Thence it was carried to Lismore Castle, probably by one of the Franciscan friars of Timoleague Abbey, who sought refuge there when his convent was despoiled, and deposited for greater security with the ancient crozier of the Bishop of Lismore, and other precious relics, in that stronghold. This castle sustained several sieges during the wars of the Catholic Confederation, after 1641; and it was, very probably, during one of those sieges that the box containing the Book and the crozier was built into a doorway for concealment from the besieging enemies. Soon after its discovery, in 1814, the Book was lent, as O'Curry informs us ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brendaniana: St. Brendan the Voyager in Story and Legend. To get started finding Brendaniana: St. Brendan the Voyager in Story and Legend, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217728952

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE IEISH LIFE OF ST. BEENDAN. INTRODUCTION. IN the following pages are given the text and translation, with some notes, of what may be called the biographical portion of the Betha Brenainn (Irish Life of Brendan) from the Book of Lismore, a MS. containing lives of some of the early Irish saints and many other ancient documents, written, as O'Curry tells us, in Gaelic of great purity and antiquity. It is now the property of the Duke of Devonshire, and is kept in Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, where it was discovered in 1814, by some workmen in a walled-up door or passage, concealed in a wooden box, along with a beautifully worked an', aent crozier; hence its name, Book of Lismore. But it ought to be called rather the Book of MacCarthy Eeagh, for it is now ascertained that it was compiled, in the latter half of the fifteenth century, from the lost Book of Monasterboice and from other ancient MSS. for Finghin MacCarthy Eiabhach, and his wife Catharine, daughter of Thomas, eighth Earl of Desmond. It is also known that it had been seen and examined by Michael O'Clery, one of the Four Masters, in Timoleague Abbey, Co. Cork, on the 20th June, 1629. Thence it was carried to Lismore Castle, probably by one of the Franciscan friars of Timoleague Abbey, who sought refuge there when his convent was despoiled, and deposited for greater security with the ancient crozier of the Bishop of Lismore, and other precious relics, in that stronghold. This castle sustained several sieges during the wars of the Catholic Confederation, after 1641; and it was, very probably, during one of those sieges that the box containing the Book and the crozier was built into a doorway for concealment from the besieging enemies. Soon after its discovery, in 1814, the Book was lent, as O'Curry informs us ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Brendaniana: St. Brendan the Voyager in Story and Legend. To get started finding Brendaniana: St. Brendan the Voyager in Story and Legend, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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