Early Christian Ireland

This is the first fully-documented history of Ireland and the Irish from Saint Patrick to the Vikings. Other books cover either a longer period (up to the Anglo-Norman conquests) or do not indicate in detail the evidence on which they are based. The book opens with the Irish raids and settlements in Britain, and the conversion of Ireland to Christianity, and ends as Viking attacks on Ireland accelerated in the second quarter of the ninth century.

List of maps

viii

List of tables

ix

List of figures

xi

Acknowledgements

xii

Abbreviations

xiii

A note on pronunciation

xvi

A note on the Chronicle of Ireland

xix

Introduction

1

(7)

Ireland in the seventh century: a tour

8

(60)

The lands of the southern Ui Neill

15

(21)

The lands of the Connachta

36

(18)

The north-east

54

(14)

Irish society c. 700: I. Communities

68

(56)

Free and unfree, noble and commoner

68

(12)

Communities

80

(44)

Kinship

84

(12)

Gens

96

(4)

Neighbours

100

(2)

Tuath

102

(4)

The household (muinter)

106

(6)

The retinue, the warband and the company of boys (deis, fian and macrad)

112

(3)

Fosterage

115

(2)

Church and monastery

117

(7)

Irish society c. 700: II. Social distinctions and moral values

124

(21)

The problem of incommensurable status

124

(5)

The hierarchies of status

129

(7)

Honour and moral values

136

(9)

Ireland and Rome

145

(37)

From the Late Iron Age to Early Christian Ireland

145

(13)

Irish settlements in Britain

158

(5)

Language and identity in western Britain

163

(9)

The ogam inscriptions in Ireland and the beginnings of literacy

172

(4)

The Latin culture of Ireland and Britain before 600

176

(6)

Conversion to Christianity

182

(59)

The evidence

183

(2)

Conversion and culture

185

(17)

Palladius

202

(12)

Patrick

214

(19)

The development of the mission

233

(8)

The organisation of the early Irish Church

241

(41)

Bishops and monastic paruchiae

241

(23)

Scholars, bishops and abbots

264

(7)

Bishops, scribes, scholars and the tuath

271

(11)

Columba, Iona and Lindisfarne

282

(62)

The sources

283

(7)

Columba's education

290

(3)

The foundation of Iona

293

(6)

Columba and the Picts

299

(9)

Iona and the English

308

(18)

Insular art

326

(18)

Columbanus and his disciples

344

(47)

The Paschal controversy

391

(25)

Time, power and the calendar

391

(5)

Exegesis

396

(9)

The development of the controversy

405

(6)

The seriousness of the issues

411

(5)

The primatial claims of Armagh, Kildare and Canterbury

416

(25)

Bishops, metropolitans and archbishops

416

(5)

The Collectio Canonum Hibernensis and the Book of the Angel

421

(7)

Kildare and the Romani

428

(1)

The claims of Wilfrid and Theodore

429

(9)

The dating of the Irish texts relevant to the issue of an Irish archbishopric

438

(3)

The origins and rise of the Ui Neill

441

(28)

The kingship of Tara

469

(53)

Perceptions of Tara

469

(7)

Tara and Tailtiu

476

(5)

Tara and the kingship of Ireland

481

(7)

Druimm Cete, the Ui Neill and Osraige

488

(3)

The partiality of Baile Chuinn

491

(3)

Non-Ui Neill kings of Tara

494

(7)

The annals and the king-lists

501

(6)

Variations in the power of the king of Tara

507

(5)

The Airgialla and the Ui Neill

512

(6)

The kingship of Tara in the laws

518

(4)

The powers of kings

522

(64)

The fiscal resources of kings

525

(5)

Free peoples and `base-client peoples'

530

(4)

Frithfolad Muman

534

(14)

Fortuatha, `external peoples'

548

(8)

The oenach

556

(3)

The cain

559

(10)

The power of the Ui Neill in the eighth century

569

(17)

Conclusion

586

(14)

Appendix: Genealogies and king-lists

600

(30)

Glossary: Irish and Latin

630

(5)

Bibliography

635

(36)

Index

671

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Early Christian Ireland

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