Bibliography
Encyclopedias and encyclopedic dictionaries
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Ó Riain, Pádraig, A supplement to A dictionary of Irish saints containing additions and corrections, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022. 64 pp.
Echard, Siân [gen. ed.], Robert Rouse [gen. ed.], Jacqueline A. Fay [ass. ed.], and Helen Fulton [ass. ed.] (eds), The encyclopedia of medieval literature in Britain, 4 vols, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.
Leerssen, Joep [ed.], Encyclopedia of romantic nationalism in Europe (ERNiE), Online: Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms, 2015–present. URL: <http://www.romanticnationalism.net>
Koch, John T., and Antone Minard [eds.], The Celts: history, life and culture, 2 vols, Santa Barbara (CA): ABC-Clio, 2012.
Ó Riain, Pádraig, A dictionary of Irish saints, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011.
Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. This book is a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The need for a summary biographical dictionary of Irish saints, containing information on such matters as feastdays, localisations, chronology, and genealogies, although stressed over sixty years ago by the eminent Jesuit and Bollandist scholar, Paul Grosjean, has never before been satisfied. Professor Ó Riain has been working in the field of Irish hagiography for upwards of forty years, and the material for the over 1,000 entries in his Dictionary has come from a variety of sources, including Lives of the saints, martyrologies, genealogies of the saints, shorter tracts on the saints (some of them accessible only in manuscripts), annals, annates, collections of folklore, Ordnance Survey letters, and other documents. Running to almost 700 pages, the body of the Dictionary is preceded by a preface, list of sources and introduction, and is followed by comprehensive indices of parishes, other places (mainly townlands), alternate (mainly anglicised) names, subjects, and feastdays.
Welsh biography online, Online: National Library of Wales, 2009–present. URL: <https://biography.wales>
McGuire, James [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009–present. URL: <https://www.dib.ie>
McGuire, James, and James Quinn [eds.], Dictionary of Irish biography: from the earliest times to 2002, 9 vols, Dublin and Cambridge: Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Snyder, Christopher [ed.], The early peoples of Britain and Ireland: an encyclopedia, 2 vols, vol. 1, Oxford and Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Snyder, Christopher [ed.], The early peoples of Britain and Ireland: an encyclopedia, 2 vols, vol. 2, Oxford and Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Snyder, Christopher [ed.], The early peoples of Britain and Ireland: an encyclopedia, 2 vols, Oxford and Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Koch, John T. (ed.), Celtic culture: a historical encyclopedia, 5 vols, Santa Barbara, Denver and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2006.
Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>
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Bosmans, J. (ed.), Biografisch woordenboek van Nederland, vol. 5, The Hague: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 2001.
Mallory, James P., and Douglas Q. Adams (eds), Encyclopedia of Indo-European culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997.
Ghisalberti, Alberto M. [gen ed.], Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 42, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1993.
Hamel, A. G. van (ed.), Geschiedenis der taalwetenschap, Servire's encyclopaedie, 43, The Hague: Servire, 1945.
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Parry, John [gen. ed.] (ed.), Encyclopaedia Cambrensis: Y gwyddoniadur Cymreig, 10 vols, Dinbych, 1856–1879.
Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, Online: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University, ...–present. URL: <http://plato.stanford.edu>
