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Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum; Or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars

Healy, John · Public domain text

286,185 words · about 20 h 2 min to read

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Author
John Healy (1841–1918)
Language
English
Subjects
Education › Ireland › History
Length
286,185 words · about 20 h 2 min
Sections
57 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (57)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. Preface about 3 min
  3. I. PAGE under 1 min
  4. II. IRISH SCHOLARS BEFORE ST. PATRICK under 1 min
  5. III. LEARNING IN IRELAND IN THE TIME OF ST. PATRICK about 1 min
  6. IV. THE WRITINGS OF SAINT PATRICK AND OF HIS DISCIPLES under 1 min
  7. V. IRISH MONASTIC SCHOOLS IN GENERAL under 1 min
  8. VI. SCHOOLS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY about 1 min
  9. VII. MINOR MONASTIC SCHOOLS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY about 1 min
  10. VIII. SCHOOLS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY about 1 min
  11. IX. THE SCHOOL OF ST. FINNIAN OF CLONARD under 1 min
  12. X. THE SCHOOL OF CLONFERT about 1 min
  13. XI. THE SCHOOL OF MOVILLE under 1 min
  14. XII. THE SCHOOL OF CLONMACNOISE about 1 min
  15. XIII. THE COLUMBIAN SCHOOLS IN IRELAND about 1 min
  16. XIV. THE COLUMBIAN SCHOOL IN ALBA about 1 min
  17. XV. THE LATER COLUMBIAN SCHOOLS IN IRELAND about 1 min
  18. XVI. THE SCHOOL OF BANGOR about 1 min
  19. XVII. THE SCHOOL OF CLONENAGH under 1 min
  20. XVIII. THE SCHOOL OF GLENDALOUGH about 1 min
  21. XVIII. (continued) about 1 min
  22. XIX. SCHOOLS OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY about 1 min
  23. XX. THE SCHOOLS OF DESMOND under 1 min
  24. XXI. THE SCHOOLS OF THOMOND under 1 min
  25. XXII. LATER SCHOOLS OF THE WEST under 1 min
  26. XXII. (continued) under 1 min
  27. XXIII. IRISH SCHOLARS ABROAD about 1 min
  28. XXIV. GAEDHLIC SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS OF ANCIENT ERIN under 1 min
  29. XXIV. (continued) under 1 min
  30. I. STATE OF LEARNING IN IRELAND BEFORE ST. PATRICK about 26 min
  31. II. IRISH SCHOLARS BEFORE ST. PATRICK about 44 min
  32. III. LEARNING IN IRELAND IN THE TIME OF ST. PATRICK about 44 min
  33. IV. THE WRITINGS OF ST. PATRICK AND OF HIS DISCIPLES about 41 min
  34. V. IRISH MONASTIC SCHOOLS IN GENERAL about 33 min
  35. VI. SCHOOLS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY about 27 min
  36. VI. (continued) about 29 min
  37. VII. MINOR MONASTIC SCHOOLS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY about 38 min
  38. VIII. IRISH SCHOOLS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY about 45 min
  39. IX. THE SCHOOL OF ST. FINNIAN OF CLONARD about 36 min
  40. X. THE SCHOOL OF CLONFERT about 1 h 3 min
  41. XI. THE SCHOOL OF MOVILLE about 24 min
  42. XII. THE SCHOOL OF CLONMACNOISE about 58 min
  43. XIII. THE COLUMBIAN SCHOOLS IN IRELAND about 42 min
  44. XIV. THE COLUMBIAN SCHOOL IN ALBA about 59 min
  45. XV. THE LATER COLUMBIAN SCHOOLS IN IRELAND about 28 min
  46. XVI. THE SCHOOL OF BANGOR about 1 h
  47. XVII. THE SCHOOL OF CLONENAGH about 28 min
  48. XVIII. THE SCHOOL OF GLENDALOUGH about 32 min
  49. XVIII. (continued) about 28 min
  50. XIX. SCHOOLS OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY about 49 min
  51. XX. THE SCHOOLS OF DESMOND about 55 min
  52. XXI. THE SCHOOLS OF THOMOND about 33 min
  53. XXII. LATER SCHOOLS OF THE WEST about 37 min
  54. XXII. (continued) about 33 min
  55. XXIII. IRISH SCHOLARS ABROAD about 52 min
  56. XXIV. GAEDHLIC SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS OF ANCIENT ERIN about 33 min
  57. XXIV. (continued) about 1 h 48 min

The opening of Preface

In the following pages it has been the author's purpose to give a full and accurate, but at the same time, as he hopes, a popular account of the Schools and Scholars of Ancient Ireland. It is a subject about which much is talked, but little is known, and even that little is only to be found in volumes that are not easily accessible to the general reader. In the present work the history of the Schools and Scholars of Celtic Erin is traced from the time of St. Patrick down to the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland. The first three centuries of this period is certainly the brightest page of what is, on the whole, the rather saddening, but not inglorious record, of our country's history. It was not by any means a period altogether free from violence and crime, but it was certainly a time of comparative peace and security, during which the religious communities scattered over the island presented a more beautiful spectacle before men and angels, than anything seen in Christendom either before or since.

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