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Adomnán

April 30, 2024

Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (Old Irish: [ˈaðəṽˌnaːn]; Latin: Adamnanus, Adomnanus; c. 624 – 704), also known as Eunan (/ˈjuːnən/ YOO-nən; from Naomh Adhamhnán), was an abbot of Iona Abbey (r. 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (Latin: Vita Columbae), probably written between 697 and 700. This biography is by far the most important surviving work written in early-medieval Scotland, and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts, and an insight into the life of Iona and the early-medieval Gaelic monk.

Adomnán promulgated the Law of Adomnán or "Law of Innocents" (Latin: Lex Innocentium). He also wrote the treatise De Locis Sanctis ('On Holy Places'), an account of the great Christian holy places and centres of pilgrimage. Adomnán got much of his information from a Frankish bishop called Arculf, who had personally visited Egypt, Rome, Constantinople and the Holy Land, and visited Iona afterwards.

Life edit

Adomnán was born about 624, a relative on his father's side of Columba.[2] He was a member of the Northern Uí Néill lineage Cenél Conaill.[3] He was the son of Rónán mac Tinne by Ronat, a woman from another Northern Uí Néill lineage known as the Cenél nÉnda. Adomnán's birthplace was probably in or near Raphoe, a town in what later became Tír Chonaill (now mainly County Donegal), in Ulster in the north of Ireland. Some of Adomnán's childhood anecdotes seem to confirm at least an upbringing in this fertile eastern part of present-day County Donegal, not far from the modern city of Derry.

It is thought that Adomnán may have begun his monastic career at a Columban monastery called Druim Tuamma, but any Columban foundation in northern Ireland or Dál Riata is a possibility, although Durrow is a stronger possibility than most. He probably joined the Columban familia (i.e. the federation of monasteries under the leadership of Iona Abbey) around the year 640. Some modern commentators believe that he could not have come to Iona until sometime after the year 669, the year of the accession of Fáilbe mac Pípáin, the first abbot of whom Adomnán gives any information. However, Richard Sharpe argues that he probably came to Iona during the abbacy of Ségéne (d. 652). Whenever or wherever Adomnán received his education, Adomnán attained a level of learning rare in early-medieval Northern Europe. It has been suggested by Alfred Smyth that Adomnán spent some years teaching and studying at Durrow,[4] and while this is not accepted by all scholars, it remains a strong possibility.

 
Iona Abbey

In 679, Adomnán became the ninth abbot of Iona after Columba.[5] Abbot Adomnán enjoyed a friendship with King Aldfrith of Northumbria. In 684, Aldfrith had been staying with Adomnán in Iona. In 686, after the death of Aldfrith's brother King Ecgfrith of Northumbria and Aldfrith's succession to the kingship, Adomnán was in the Kingdom of Northumbria on the request of King Fínsnechta Fledach of Brega in order to gain the freedom of sixty Gaels who had been captured in a Northumbrian raid two years before.[4]

Adomnán, in keeping with Ionan tradition, made several more trips to the lands of the English during his abbacy, including one the following year. It is sometimes thought, after the account given by Bede, that it was during his visits to Northumbria, under the influence of Abbot Ceolfrith, that Adomnán decided to adopt the Roman dating of Easter that had been agreed some years before at the Synod of Whitby. Bede implies that this led to a schism at Iona, whereby Adomnán became alienated from the Iona brethren and went to Ireland to convince the Irish of the Roman dating. Jeffrey Wetherill sees Adomnán's long absences from Iona as having led to something of an undermining of his authority; he was thus unable to persuade the monks to adopt the Roman dating of Easter, let alone the tonsure.[2] It is clear that Adomnán did adopt that Roman dating and, moreover, probably did argue the case for it in Ireland.[5]

For many years, the people of Leinster made a triennial tribute payment, called the Borumha, to the Uí Néill. The payment was made largely in cattle. Around 692, the King of Leinster was prepared to go to war over the payment, but first sent a delegation led by Saint Moling to ask for its remittance. Fínsnechta Fledach agreed to remit payment "for a day and a night". Moling argued that "All time is day and night; thou canst never reimpose this tax." Although this was not the king's intention, Moling held him to his word, promising him heaven if he kept it, and the reverse if he did not. When Adomnán learned of this he left Iona to see the king and scolded him soundly for yielding the rights of the Uí Néill.[6]

Cáin Adomnáin edit

Main article: Cáin Adomnáin

It is generally believed that in 697, Adomnán promulgated the Cáin Adomnáin, meaning literally the "Canons" or "Law of Adomnán". The Cáin Adomnáin was promulgated amongst a gathering of Irish, Dál Riatan and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697.[7] It is a set of laws designed, among other things, to guarantee the safety and immunity of various types of non-combatants in warfare. For this reason it is also known as the Lex Innocentium (Law of Innocents).

Works edit

Adomnán's most important work, and the one for which he is best known, is the Vita Columbae ("Life of Columba"), a hagiography of Iona's founder, Columba,[8] probably written between 697 and 700. The format borrows to some extent from Sulpicius Severus' Life of Saint Martin of Tours.[9] Adomnán adapted traditional forms of Christian biography to group stories about Columba thematically rather than chronologically,[10] and present Columba as comparable to a hero in Gaelic mythology.[11] Wetherill suggests that one of the motivations for writing the Vita was to offer Columba as a model for the monks, and thereby improve Adomnán's standing as abbot.[2] The biography is by far the most important surviving work written in early-medieval Scotland, and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts, as well as a great insight into the life of Iona and the early-medieval Gaelic monk.

However, the Vita was not his only work. Adomnán also wrote the treatise De Locis Sanctis (i.e. "On Holy Places"), an account of the great Christian holy places and centres of pilgrimage. Adomnán got much of his information from a Frankish bishop called Arculf, who had personally visited the Egypt, Rome, Constantinople and the Holy Land, and visited Iona afterwards. Adomnán gave a copy to the scholar-king Aldfrith of Northumbria (685–704).[4] Also attributed to him is a good deal of Gaelic poetry, including a celebration of the Pictish King Bridei's (671–93) victory over the Northumbrians at the Battle of Dun Nechtain (685).

Death edit

Adomnán died in 704, and became a saint in Scottish and Irish tradition, as well as one of the most important figures in either Scottish or Irish history. His death and feast day are commemorated on 23 September. Along with Columba, he is joint patron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe, which encompasses the bulk of County Donegal in the north-west of Ireland. The Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba (popularly known as St. Eunan's Cathedral), the Catholic cathedral in that diocese, is in Letterkenny. In 727 the relics of Adomnán were brought to Ireland to renew the Cáin Adomnáin[12] and they were returned to Iona in 730.[13]

Legacy edit

In his native Donegal, Adomnán has given his name to several institutions and buildings including:

In County Sligo, just to the south, he is venerated as the founder of Skreen Abbey, now the site of the Church of Ireland church of Skreen Parish.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "St. Adamnan, Kilmaveonaig", The Scottish Episcopal Church
  2. ^ a b c Wetherill, Jeffrey. "Adomnán, Iona, and the Life of St. Columba: Their Place Among Continental Saints", The Heroic Age, No. 6, Spring 2003
  3. ^ Sharpe, 1995, p.44.
  4. ^ a b c Smyth, Alfred. Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000, Edinburgh University Press, 1984 ISBN 9780748601004
  5. ^ a b Grattan-Flood, William. "St. Adamnan." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 11 Mar. 2014
  6. ^ Healy, John. Irish Ecclesiastical Record, 3rd series, Vol 3 (1882), 408-419
  7. ^ Annals of Ulster 697.3.
  8. ^ Butler, Alban. The Lives of the Saints, Vol.IX, 1866. 2012-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Nilsson, Sara E. Ellis. "Miracle Stories and the Primary Purpose of Adomnán's Vita Columbae", The Heroic Age, No. 10, May 2007
  10. ^ Bullough, Donald A., "Columba, Adomnán and the achievement of Iona: Part I", The Scottish Historical Review,43, pp. 111–130, 1964
  11. ^ Picard, Jean-Michel. "The purpose of Adomnán's Vita Columbae", Peritia, 1, pp. 160–177, 1982.
  12. ^ Annals of Ulster 727.5.
  13. ^ Annals of Ulster 730.3.

Sources edit

  • Reeves, William, and James Henthorn Todd (eds.). Vita Sancta Columbae: The life of St Columba founder of Hy, written by Adamnan, ninth Abbot of Iona. Dublin: Dublin University Press for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Association, 1857. Available from CELT
  • Sharpe, Richard (tr.). Adomnán of Iona: Life of St. Columba. London, 1995. (43–65)
  • Smyth, Alfred P. (1984). Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-0100-7.

Further reading edit

Primary sources edit

  • Adomnán, Vita Columbae:
    • Anderson, A.O. and M.O. Anderson (eds. and trs.). Adomnán's Life of Columba. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1991. First edition: Edinburgh, 1961.
    • Sharpe, Richard (tr.). Adomnán of Iona: Life of St. Columba. London, 1995. (43–65)
    • Reeves, William, and James Henthorn Todd (eds.). Vita Sancta Columbae: The life of St Columba founder of Hy, written by Adamnan, ninth Abbot of Iona. Dublin: Dublin University Press for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Association, 1857. Available from CELT
  • Cáin Adamnáin ("The Law of Adomnán") or Lex Innocentium ("Law of the Innocents")
    • Márkus, Gilbert (tr.), Adomnán's Law of the Innocents – Cáin Adomnáin: A seventh-century law for the protection of non-combatants. Kilmartin, Argyll: Kilmartin House Museum, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9533674-3-6
    • Meyer, Kuno (ed.). Cain Adamnain: An Old Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.
    • Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín (tr.). "The Law of Adomnán: A Translation." Adomnan at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents, ed. Thomas O'Louglin. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 53–68. Translation of §§ 28–53.
  • Adomnán, De Locis Sanctis
    • Meehan, D. (ed.). Adomnan's 'De Locis Sanctis'. Scriptores Latini Hiberniae 3. Dublin, 1958. 1–34.
  • Anonymous, Betha Adamnáin ("The Life of Adomnán")
    • Herbert, Maire and Padraig Ó Riain (eds. and trs.). Betha Adamnáin: The Irish Life of Adamnán. Irish Texts Society 54. 1988. 1–44.
  • Anonymous, Fís Adomnáin ("The Vision of Adomnán"), 10–11th century.
    • Windisch, Ernst (ed.). "Fís Adamnáin." Irische Texte 1 (1880). 165–96.
    • Stokes, W. (ed. and tr.). Fis Adomnáin. Simla, 1870.
    • Carey, John (tr.). King of Mysteries: Early Irish Religious Writings. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998. 263–74.

Secondary sources edit

  • Herbert, M. Iona, Kells, and Derry: the history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba. 1988.
  • O'Loughlin, T. "The Exegetical Purpose of Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis", Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 24(1992)37–53.
  • O'Loughlin, T. "The Library of Iona in the Late Seventh Century: The Evidence from Adomnán's De locis sanctis", Ériu 45(1994)33–52
  • O'Loughlin, T."The View from Iona: Adomnán's mental maps", Peritia 10(1996)98–122
  • O'Loughlin, T. "Res, tempus, locus, persona: Adomnán's Exegetical Method", Innes Review 48(1997)95–111; re-printed in: D. Broun and T.O. Clancy eds, Spes Scotorum Hope of the Scots: Saint Columba, Iona and Scotland (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh 1999), pp. 139–158.
  • O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán and Arculf: The Case of an Expert Witness", Journal of Medieval Latin 7(1997)127–146
  • O'Loughlin, T. "Adomnán: A Man of Many Parts" in T. O'Loughlin ed., Adomnán at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents (Four Courts Press, Dublin 2001), pp. 41–51.
  • O'Loughlin, T. "The Tombs of the Saints: their significance for Adomnán", in J. Carey, M. Herbert and P. Ó Riain eds, Studies in Irish Hagiography: Saints and Scholars (Four Courts Press, Dublin 2001), pp. 1–14.

Further reading edit

  • Adomnán at Birr, AD 697: Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents. Edited by Thomas O'Loughlin. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001)
  • Lacey, Brian (2021). Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan : life and afterlife of a Donegal saint. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1-84682-963-5.

External links edit

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Abbot of Iona
679–704 		Succeeded by

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adomnán, adamnán, iona, irish, ˈaðəṽˌnaːn, latin, adamnanus, adomnanus, also, known, eunan, nən, from, naomh, adhamhnán, abbot, iona, abbey, hagiographer, statesman, canon, jurist, saint, author, life, columba, latin, vita, columbae, probably, written, between. Adomnan or Adamnan of Iona Old Irish ˈadeṽˌnaːn Latin Adamnanus Adomnanus c 624 704 also known as Eunan ˈ j uː n e n YOO nen from Naomh Adhamhnan was an abbot of Iona Abbey r 679 704 hagiographer statesman canon jurist and saint He was the author of the Life of Columba Latin Vita Columbae probably written between 697 and 700 This biography is by far the most important surviving work written in early medieval Scotland and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts and an insight into the life of Iona and the early medieval Gaelic monk SaintAdomnan of IonaSt Eunan Raphoe CathedralBornc 624 County Donegal Ulster IrelandDied704 aged c 80 Iona ScotlandVenerated inCatholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchScottish Episcopal Church 1 CanonizedPre CongregationFeast23 SeptemberPatronageRoman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe Adomnan promulgated the Law of Adomnan or Law of Innocents Latin Lex Innocentium He also wrote the treatise De Locis Sanctis On Holy Places an account of the great Christian holy places and centres of pilgrimage Adomnan got much of his information from a Frankish bishop called Arculf who had personally visited Egypt Rome Constantinople and the Holy Land and visited Iona afterwards Contents 1 Life 2 Cain Adomnain 3 Works 4 Death 5 Legacy 6 See also 7 References 8 Sources 9 Further reading 9 1 Primary sources 9 2 Secondary sources 10 Further reading 11 External linksLife editAdomnan was born about 624 a relative on his father s side of Columba 2 He was a member of the Northern Ui Neill lineage Cenel Conaill 3 He was the son of Ronan mac Tinne by Ronat a woman from another Northern Ui Neill lineage known as the Cenel nEnda Adomnan s birthplace was probably in or near Raphoe a town in what later became Tir Chonaill now mainly County Donegal in Ulster in the north of Ireland Some of Adomnan s childhood anecdotes seem to confirm at least an upbringing in this fertile eastern part of present day County Donegal not far from the modern city of Derry It is thought that Adomnan may have begun his monastic career at a Columban monastery called Druim Tuamma but any Columban foundation in northern Ireland or Dal Riata is a possibility although Durrow is a stronger possibility than most He probably joined the Columban familia i e the federation of monasteries under the leadership of Iona Abbey around the year 640 Some modern commentators believe that he could not have come to Iona until sometime after the year 669 the year of the accession of Failbe mac Pipain the first abbot of whom Adomnan gives any information However Richard Sharpe argues that he probably came to Iona during the abbacy of Segene d 652 Whenever or wherever Adomnan received his education Adomnan attained a level of learning rare in early medieval Northern Europe It has been suggested by Alfred Smyth that Adomnan spent some years teaching and studying at Durrow 4 and while this is not accepted by all scholars it remains a strong possibility nbsp Iona Abbey In 679 Adomnan became the ninth abbot of Iona after Columba 5 Abbot Adomnan enjoyed a friendship with King Aldfrith of Northumbria In 684 Aldfrith had been staying with Adomnan in Iona In 686 after the death of Aldfrith s brother King Ecgfrith of Northumbria and Aldfrith s succession to the kingship Adomnan was in the Kingdom of Northumbria on the request of King Finsnechta Fledach of Brega in order to gain the freedom of sixty Gaels who had been captured in a Northumbrian raid two years before 4 Adomnan in keeping with Ionan tradition made several more trips to the lands of the English during his abbacy including one the following year It is sometimes thought after the account given by Bede that it was during his visits to Northumbria under the influence of Abbot Ceolfrith that Adomnan decided to adopt the Roman dating of Easter that had been agreed some years before at the Synod of Whitby Bede implies that this led to a schism at Iona whereby Adomnan became alienated from the Iona brethren and went to Ireland to convince the Irish of the Roman dating Jeffrey Wetherill sees Adomnan s long absences from Iona as having led to something of an undermining of his authority he was thus unable to persuade the monks to adopt the Roman dating of Easter let alone the tonsure 2 It is clear that Adomnan did adopt that Roman dating and moreover probably did argue the case for it in Ireland 5 For many years the people of Leinster made a triennial tribute payment called the Borumha to the Ui Neill The payment was made largely in cattle Around 692 the King of Leinster was prepared to go to war over the payment but first sent a delegation led by Saint Moling to ask for its remittance Finsnechta Fledach agreed to remit payment for a day and a night Moling argued that All time is day and night thou canst never reimpose this tax Although this was not the king s intention Moling held him to his word promising him heaven if he kept it and the reverse if he did not When Adomnan learned of this he left Iona to see the king and scolded him soundly for yielding the rights of the Ui Neill 6 Cain Adomnain editMain article Cain Adomnain It is generally believed that in 697 Adomnan promulgated the Cain Adomnain meaning literally the Canons or Law of Adomnan The Cain Adomnain was promulgated amongst a gathering of Irish Dal Riatan and Pictish notables at the Synod of Birr in 697 7 It is a set of laws designed among other things to guarantee the safety and immunity of various types of non combatants in warfare For this reason it is also known as the Lex Innocentium Law of Innocents Works editAdomnan s most important work and the one for which he is best known is the Vita Columbae Life of Columba a hagiography of Iona s founder Columba 8 probably written between 697 and 700 The format borrows to some extent from Sulpicius Severus Life of Saint Martin of Tours 9 Adomnan adapted traditional forms of Christian biography to group stories about Columba thematically rather than chronologically 10 and present Columba as comparable to a hero in Gaelic mythology 11 Wetherill suggests that one of the motivations for writing the Vita was to offer Columba as a model for the monks and thereby improve Adomnan s standing as abbot 2 The biography is by far the most important surviving work written in early medieval Scotland and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts as well as a great insight into the life of Iona and the early medieval Gaelic monk However the Vita was not his only work Adomnan also wrote the treatise De Locis Sanctis i e On Holy Places an account of the great Christian holy places and centres of pilgrimage Adomnan got much of his information from a Frankish bishop called Arculf who had personally visited the Egypt Rome Constantinople and the Holy Land and visited Iona afterwards Adomnan gave a copy to the scholar king Aldfrith of Northumbria 685 704 4 Also attributed to him is a good deal of Gaelic poetry including a celebration of the Pictish King Bridei s 671 93 victory over the Northumbrians at the Battle of Dun Nechtain 685 Death editAdomnan died in 704 and became a saint in Scottish and Irish tradition as well as one of the most important figures in either Scottish or Irish history His death and feast day are commemorated on 23 September Along with Columba he is joint patron of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe which encompasses the bulk of County Donegal in the north west of Ireland The Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba popularly known as St Eunan s Cathedral the Catholic cathedral in that diocese is in Letterkenny In 727 the relics of Adomnan were brought to Ireland to renew the Cain Adomnain 12 and they were returned to Iona in 730 13 Legacy editIn his native Donegal Adomnan has given his name to several institutions and buildings including The Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba in Letterkenny County Donegal the current seat of the Bishop of Raphoe The Anglican St Eunan s Cathedral in Raphoe County Donegal St Eunan s NS a national school in Raphoe St Eunan s College a secondary school in Letterkenny St Eunan s NS a national school in the small village of Laghey just south of Donegal Town St Eunan s GAA a GAA club in Letterkenny In County Sligo just to the south he is venerated as the founder of Skreen Abbey now the site of the Church of Ireland church of Skreen Parish See also editHagiography The Vision of Adamnan a work of visionary literature written in Middle Irish Saint Adamnan patron saint archive SilnanReferences edit St Adamnan Kilmaveonaig The Scottish Episcopal Church a b c Wetherill Jeffrey Adomnan Iona and the Life of St Columba Their Place Among Continental Saints The Heroic Age No 6 Spring 2003 Sharpe 1995 p 44 a b c Smyth Alfred Warlords and Holy Men Scotland AD 80 1000 Edinburgh University Press 1984 ISBN 9780748601004 a b Grattan Flood William St Adamnan The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol 1 New York Robert Appleton Company 1907 11 Mar 2014 Healy John Irish Ecclesiastical Record 3rd series Vol 3 1882 408 419 Annals of Ulster 697 3 Butler Alban The Lives of the Saints Vol IX 1866 Archived 2012 06 03 at the Wayback Machine Nilsson Sara E Ellis Miracle Stories and the Primary Purpose of Adomnan s Vita Columbae The Heroic Age No 10 May 2007 Bullough Donald A Columba Adomnan and the achievement of Iona Part I The Scottish Historical Review 43 pp 111 130 1964 Picard Jean Michel The purpose of Adomnan s Vita Columbae Peritia 1 pp 160 177 1982 Annals of Ulster 727 5 Annals of Ulster 730 3 Sources editReeves William and James Henthorn Todd eds Vita Sancta Columbae The life of St Columba founder of Hy written by Adamnan ninth Abbot of Iona Dublin Dublin University Press for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Association 1857 Available from CELT Sharpe Richard tr Adomnan of Iona Life of St Columba London 1995 43 65 Smyth Alfred P 1984 Warlords and Holy Men Scotland AD 80 1000 Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press ISBN 0 7486 0100 7 Further reading editPrimary sources edit Adomnan Vita Columbae Anderson A O and M O Anderson eds and trs Adomnan s Life of Columba 2nd ed Oxford 1991 First edition Edinburgh 1961 Sharpe Richard tr Adomnan of Iona Life of St Columba London 1995 43 65 Reeves William and James Henthorn Todd eds Vita Sancta Columbae The life of St Columba founder of Hy written by Adamnan ninth Abbot of Iona Dublin Dublin University Press for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Association 1857 Available from CELT Cain Adamnain The Law of Adomnan or Lex Innocentium Law of the Innocents Markus Gilbert tr Adomnan s Law of the Innocents Cain Adomnain A seventh century law for the protection of non combatants Kilmartin Argyll Kilmartin House Museum 2008 ISBN 978 0 9533674 3 6 Meyer Kuno ed Cain Adamnain An Old Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan Oxford Clarendon Press 1905 Ni Dhonnchadha Mairin tr The Law of Adomnan A Translation Adomnan at Birr AD 697 Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents ed Thomas O Louglin Dublin Four Courts Press 2001 53 68 Translation of 28 53 Adomnan De Locis Sanctis Meehan D ed Adomnan s De Locis Sanctis Scriptores Latini Hiberniae 3 Dublin 1958 1 34 Anonymous Betha Adamnain The Life of Adomnan Herbert Maire and Padraig o Riain eds and trs Betha Adamnain The Irish Life of Adamnan Irish Texts Society 54 1988 1 44 Anonymous Fis Adomnain The Vision of Adomnan 10 11th century Windisch Ernst ed Fis Adamnain Irische Texte 1 1880 165 96 Stokes W ed and tr Fis Adomnain Simla 1870 Carey John tr King of Mysteries Early Irish Religious Writings Dublin Four Courts Press 1998 263 74 Secondary sources edit Herbert M Iona Kells and Derry the history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba 1988 O Loughlin T The Exegetical Purpose of Adomnan s De Locis Sanctis Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 24 1992 37 53 O Loughlin T The Library of Iona in the Late Seventh Century The Evidence from Adomnan s De locis sanctis Eriu 45 1994 33 52 O Loughlin T The View from Iona Adomnan s mental maps Peritia 10 1996 98 122 O Loughlin T Res tempus locus persona Adomnan s Exegetical Method Innes Review 48 1997 95 111 re printed in D Broun and T O Clancy eds Spes Scotorum Hope of the Scots Saint Columba Iona and Scotland T and T Clark Edinburgh 1999 pp 139 158 O Loughlin T Adomnan and Arculf The Case of an Expert Witness Journal of Medieval Latin 7 1997 127 146 O Loughlin T Adomnan A Man of Many Parts in T O Loughlin ed Adomnan at Birr AD 697 Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents Four Courts Press Dublin 2001 pp 41 51 O Loughlin T The Tombs of the Saints their significance for Adomnan in J Carey M Herbert and P o Riain eds Studies in Irish Hagiography Saints and Scholars Four Courts Press Dublin 2001 pp 1 14 Further reading editAdomnan at Birr AD 697 Essays in Commemoration of the Law of the Innocents Edited by Thomas O Loughlin Dublin Four Courts Press 2001 Lacey Brian 2021 Adomnan Adhamhnan Eunan life and afterlife of a Donegal saint Dublin Four Courts Press ISBN 978 1 84682 963 5 External links editWebb Alfred 1878 Adamnan Saint A Compendium of Irish Biography Dublin M H Gill amp son Adamnan c 700 Reeves William ed The Life of Saint Columba Edinburgh Edmonston and Douglas published 1874 retrieved 9 August 2008 St Adamnan c 700 Fowler Joseph Thomas ed Prophecies Miracles and Visions of St Columba London Henry Frowde published 1895 retrieved 9 August 2008 Resources for Adomnan Bibliography for Adomnan http bill celt dias ie vol4 browseatsources php letter A ATS7714 nbsp Texts on Wikisource Herbermann Charles ed 1913 St Adamnan Catholic Encyclopedia New York Robert Appleton Company Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Adamnan Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed Cambridge University Press Adamnan Saint Encyclopedia Americana 1920 http foundationsirishculture ie record id 52 Catholic Church titles Preceded byFailbe Abbot of Iona679 704 Succeeded byConamail Portals nbsp Saints nbsp Biography nbsp Catholicism nbsp Ireland Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Adomnan amp oldid 1219130531, 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