Patrick C. Power

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Partick C. Power (1862–1951), was a noted historian of the Catholic Church in Ireland. He was born on the 8th of March 1862, in Callaghane, Co. Waterford and educated at the Catholic University School and St. John's College, Waterford.[1]

Power was ordained a priest and worked in Liverpool and Australia and was later attached to Waterford Cathedral. He was also a diocesan schools inspector and lecturer in archaeology at St Patrick's College, Maynooth between 1910 and 1931. He was Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork (UCC) between 1931 and 1934,[2] and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. During his time in Cork he was awarded a D.Litt., by the National University of Ireland. He was also appointed a Canon of the Catholic Church.

He died October the 16th, 1951.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Canon Patrick Power A Talk by Msg. Michael G. Olden presented at Canon Patrick Power Seminar, WIT, 8th March 2012
  2. ↑ "(Rev.) Patrick Power". Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). Retrieved 2009-06-22. 

Works

  • Places and Names of Decies (1907)
  • Parochial History of Waterford and Lismore (1912; 1937)
  • Lives of Declan and Mochuda (ITS 1915)
  • Place Names and Antiquities of S. E. Cork (1917)
  • Ardmore-Decglaim (1919)
  • Prehistoric Ireland (1922)
  • Early Christian Ireland (1925)
  • The Ancient Topography of Fermoy (1931)
  • A Bishop of the Penal Times (1932)
  • A Short History of Co. Waterford (1933)
  • The Cathedral and Priory of the Holy Trinity, Waterford (1942)
  • He was also the editor of the Journal of Waterford and S. E. Ireland Archaeological Society.

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