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1.
See the chapter
‘Epilogue’ in
Rees, A and
Rees, B: Celtic
Heritage, Thames
and Hudson, New
York, 1978. Also
Ford, P, The
Poetry of
Llywarch Hen,
Los Angeles and
Berkeley, 1974,
pp 16-25.
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2.
Collingwood,
R.G. and Wright,
R.P. : The Roman
Inscriptions of
Britain, Oxford
1965 and also
Corpus
Inscriptionum
Latinarum.
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3
Birkhan, H:
Die Kelten,
Verlag der
Österreichischen
Akademie der
Wissen schaften,
Wien, 1997
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4.
I am indebted to
Eugene Markey of
the County
Museum,
Ballyjamesduff,
Co. Cavan for
the information,
the book 'Knockbride:
A History' and
the picture.
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5.
Ó hÓgáin, D:
Myth, Legend and
Romance: An
Encyclopaedia of
the Irish Folk
Tradition, Ryan
Publishing,
London, 1990, pp
60-64
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6
Ó Riain, P:
‘Pagan Example
and Christian
Practice: A
Reconsideration’
in Cultural
identity and
Cultural
Integration:
Ireland and
Europe in the
Early Middle
Ages, ed. Edel,
D., Four Courts
Press, 1995
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7
Connolly, S:
Cogitosus’s Life
of Brigit in
Journal of the
Royal Society of
Antiquaries of
Ireland 117,
p.5-27
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8
Colgan, J:
Triadis
Thaumaturgae
Acta, Louvain,
1647
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9
Printed with
a translation in
Three
Middle-Irish
Homilies,
Calcutta, 1877
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10
There are
many different
versions of
Brigit’s name.
Bríg is found
here and in the
Second Battle of
Maigh Tuired.
Brigit is the
form used in the
early texts for
the goddess and
the saint,
although later
texts used the
form Brighid for
the saint. I am
using Brigit
throughout here,
except where it
appears
differently in
quotations.
Other versions
are Brighde,
Bríd, Bridget,
Bride and Ffraid
or Ffraed, in
Wales.
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11
In Bernard, J.H.
and Atkinson, R,
eds. The Irish
Liber Hymnorum,
Vol II, London,
1892, pp.37-46
The poem
continues:
May Brigid free
us
past crowds of
demons!
may she win for
us
battles over
every disease!
May she
extirpate in us
the vices of our
flesh,
she, the branch
with blossoms,
the mother of
Jesus!
The true-virgin,
dear,
with vast
pre-eminence,
may we be free,
at all times,
along with my
Saint of
Leinster-folk!
One (of the two)
pillars of the
Kingdom,
along with
Patrick the
pre-eminent (as
the other
pillar);
the vestment
beyond (even)
splendid
(vestments),
the royal Queen!
May they lie,
after old age,
our bodies, in
sackcloth;
(but) with her
graces may she
bedew us,
may she free us,
Brigid!
Brigit ever.
Brigitae per
luadem Christum
precamur
ut nos celeste
regnum habere
mereamur. Amen.”
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12
Giraldus
Cambrensis: The
History and
Topography of
Ireland, ed.
John J. O'Meara,
Harmondsworth,
Middlesex,
Penguin Books,
1982
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13
Baring-Gould, S
and Fisher, J:
The Lives of the
British Saints,
London
1907-1913, (4 vols), vol 1, p
285
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14
Parry-Williams,
T.H: Canu Rhydd
Cynnar p.353
90:11-12
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15
Ó hÓgáin, D: The
Hero in Irish
Folk History,
Gill and
Macmillan,
Dublin, 1985 p.
232
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16
Dorothy A. Bray,
‘The Image of
St. Brigit in
the Early Irish
Church’, Etudes Celtiques, 24
(1987), 209-15
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17
Coch, John and
Carey, John:
Celtic Heroic
Age, Celtic
Studies
Publications,
Malden, Mass.
1995
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18
Stokes,
Whitley, trans:
Lives of the
Saints from the
Book of Lismore,
Facsimile
Reprint Llanerch
Books, Felinfach,
1995 pp 182-200
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19
Binchy, D.A:
Bretha Crólige
in Ériu 12, 1938
pp 1-77
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20
Ó Catháin,
Séamus: The
Festival of
Brigit, DBA
Publications,
1995, p 11.
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21
Capra,
Fritjof: The
Turning Point,
Flamingo,
London, 1982.
See also Capra,
Fritjof: The Tao
of Physics,
Flamingo, 1988
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