... edifices, a knowledge of which must necessarily have been imparted to them by the crowds of foreign ecclesiastics, Egyptian, Roman, Italian, French, British, and Saxon, who flocked to Ireland as a place of refuge in the fifth and sixth centuries ?... Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language - Page 21edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
| Eugene O'Curry - 1861 - 834 pages
...British, and Saxon, who flocked to Ireland as a place of refuge, in the fifth and sixth centuries ? Of such immigration there cannot possibly exist a...it will be sufficient to refer to that most curious and ancient document, written in the year 799, the litany of St. Aengus the Culdee, in which are invoked... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...refuge in the 5th and 6th centuries. Of such immigration," he adds, " there cannot possibly he a douht ; for, not to speak of the great number of foreigners who were disciples of S. Patrick, and of whom the names are preserved in the most ancient lives of that saint, nor of the... | |
| Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 pages
...French, British, and Saxon who flocked to Ireland as a place of refuge in the fifth and sixth centuries ? Of such immigration there cannot possibly exist a...it will be sufficient to refer to that most curious ancient document, written in the year 799, the "Litany of St. Aengus the Guidee," in which are invoked... | |
| William Frederick Wakeman - Ireland - 1889 - 522 pages
...this as one of the monumental inscriptions of Ireland which testifies to the fact that even the moat remote parts of the country were visited by foreigners...of whom the names are preserved in the most ancient Latin lives of that saint, nor of the evidences of the same nature so abundantly supplied in the lives... | |
| Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Irish literature - 1904 - 530 pages
...French, British, and Saxon, who flocked to Ireland as a place of refuge in the fifth and sixth centuries? Of such immigration there cannot possibly exist a...it will be sufficient to refer to that most curious ancient document, written in the year 799, the ' Litany of St. Aengus the Culdee,' in which are invoked... | |
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