Tírechán

Statue of St Patrick from Agahower.

Tírechán was a 7th-century Irish bishop and biographer of Saint Patrick. Tírechán wrote his untitled memoir (so-called because it is written in the first person, as though the author was Patrick) sometime after the death of his mentor, Ultan of Ardbraccan, in 657. The work survives in the manuscript The Book of Armagh.

Tírechán's account, which J. B. Bury dated to the 660s or 670s, is frequently compared with the more-or-less contemporary narrative of the monk Muirchu moccu Machtheni.

References

Bury, J.B. (1902). "Tírechán's Memoir of St. Patrick". The English Historical Review 17 (66): 235–267. doi:10.1093/ehr/XVII.LXVI.235.

External links

"The Book of Armagh". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
St Patrick's Confessio HyperStack: The website provides images of the Patrician Texts in the Book of Armagh, Tírechán's Biography of St Patrick in Latin and English.

Hiberno-Latin culture to 1169

Authors

On the continent	Augustinus Hibernicus Cadac-Andreas Cellanus Clement of Ireland Coelius Sedulius Colman nepos Cracavist Columbanus Dicuil Donatus of Fiesole Dungal Hibernicus exul John Scotus Eriugena Joseph Scottus Blessed Marianus Scotus Marianus Scotus Martianus Hiberniensis Sedulius Scottus Tuotilo Vergilius of Salzburg Virgilius Maro Grammaticus

Texts

Manuscripts

See also: Celtic Christianity
Hiberno-Scottish mission
Hiberno-Latin after 1169

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