Young, St Patrick and Clovis.pdf

The early chronology for St Patrick (c. 351-c. 428): some new ideas and possibilities Introduction: 'ego Patricius peccator'

Trowel - The Journal of the Archseological Society Unversity College Dublin, 1994

S. Duffy (ed.), Medieval Dublin X (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010), pp 299–311, 2010

Previously unpublished article discovered among unsorted papers of Professor Otway-Ruthven, Trinity College Dublin. Includes a bibliographical note by P. Crooks on developments in medieval Irish urban history c. 1980-2010.

The period between the battle of Clontarf and the Anglo-Norman invasion remains one of the most neglected in Ireland's history. Too late for the students of early Ireland, who often see Brian Boruma's death in 1014 as a convenient end-point, and too early for the later medievalists for whom the cataclysmic events of the late 1160s form a natural point of departure, it has fallen between both stools. Many aspects of this vital era may be said to have suffered as a result, but some remain more heavily shrouded in obscurity than others. One of the areas in greatest need of elucidation is the nature of the relationship at this point between the Irish and the descendants of those Vikings who had earlier settled both in Ireland and in the islands between it and Britain. This paper can claim to do little more than scratch the surface of the problem, by outlining the connectionprimarily political and military--between the two in the century or so before the fall of Viking Dublin.

Edited by Niall C.E.J. O'Brien as part of an online exhibition to coincide with the conference held on 8 th March 2012 at the Waterford Institute of Technology to mark the 150 th anniversary of the birth of Canon Patrick Power (8 th March 1862)

Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 2021

This article returns to the surviving texts of Patrick, apostle to Ireland, in order to refine further his floruit in the fifth century. It argues that Patrick's use of a classical scheme relating age to status clarifies the contexts for the autobiographical details of his life, and that these details can be correlated with the limited historical records that survive for this period. In connecting his excommunication of Coroticus to an Easter controversy c. 455, and his controversial elevation to an episcopal see to a dislocation in clerical authority in Britain c. 441, I argue that Patrick's formal clerical career c. 427-455 matches Richard Hanson's sophisticated literary arguments made in the latter third of the twentieth century. I also propose that the uncertainty over the date of Patrick's death (in a context of exile), as represented by various reports in the Irish and Welsh annals c. 457-493, is inconsequential to his formal period of authority.

Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland vol. 141 (2011), pp 226-229., 2014