Acta sanctorum Hiberniae
prose
Colgan (John)
Colgan (John)
(d. 1658)
Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

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A collection of the acts of the Irish saints, written in Latin. It covers those saints whose feast-days were believed to fall in January, February and March.
Additamenta in the Book of Armagh
prose

A collection of charter-like records in Latin and Old Irish relating the activities of St Patrick in Ireland and the lands that were granted to him and his church. The collection can be divided into three parts: (1) a text about the foundation of Trim (Co. Meath), including an account of the conversion of Feidlimid son of Lóegaire mac Néill, king of Leinster; (2) a group of six records concerning churches in northern Connacht; and (3) a group of four records concerning churches in Leinster.

Additamentum Nivialense de Fuilano
prose

Latin Life of St Foillán of Fosses, a brother of St Fursa. It was written as a supplement to Vita Fursei. BHL 3211. 

The adventures of Mac Dá Cherda
prose
Early Irish tale about (Comgán) Mac Dá Cherda, son of Máel Ochtraig (king of the Déisi of Mag Femen)
Amra Senáin
verse
beg. Senán soer síd-athair
Dallán Forgaill
Dallán Forgaill
(fl. 597)
early Irish poet, known as the author of Amra Choluim Chille

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(ascr.)
Eulogy on Senán mac Geirrcinn, saint of Inis Cathaig (Scattery Island, Co. Clare), with gloss.
Baile Bricín
form undefined
Early Irish tale in which an angel visits St Bricín(e), abbot of Túaim Dreccon (Tomregan, Co. Cavan), and reveals to him the names of many future churchmen in Ireland.
Beatha Mhairghréad
prose
verse

An Irish Life of St Margaret of Antioch.

Betha Abáin
prose
Vernacular Irish recension of the Life of St Abbán of Mag Arnaide (Moyarney, now Adamstown in Co. Wexford) and Cell Abbáin (Killabban, Co. Laois)
Betha Adamnáin
prose
Early Middle Irish Life of Adomnán, abbot of Iona (d. 704), written about the middle of the tenth century.
Betha Beineoin deiscipuil Pátraic
prose
prosimetrum

Life of St Benén, companion of St Patrick, in Irish and Latin.

Betha Beraig
form undefined
Irish Life of the Connacht saint Berach (mac Amairgin) of Clúain Coirpthe
Beatha Bharra
prose
Irish Life of St Finnbarr of Cork
Betha Brénainn Clúana Ferta I
prose

So-called first Irish Life of Brénainn of Clúain Fertae (Clonfert, Co. Galway), also known as the Lismore Life. While the first and second Lives represent much the same version during the first part of the narration, they diverge at the point where the second Life becomes conflated with the Navigatio sancti Brendani. The first Life, moreover, concludes with a fragment of Fis Adomnáin.

Betha Brénainn Clúana Ferta II
prose
So-called second Irish Life of Brénainn of Clúain Fertae (Clonfert, Co. Galway)
Betha Caoimhgin I
prose
Prose Life of St Cóemgen (Cáemgen, Kevin)
Betha Caoimhgin II
verse
beg. Do sir Caoimhgin móran d' Eirinn
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Verse Life of St Cóemgen (Cáemgen, Kevin).

Betha Caoimhgin III
prose
verse
Prosimetric Life of St Cóemgen (Cáemgen, Kevin)
Betha Chiaráin Clúana meic Nois
prose
Late vernacular Life of St Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
Betha Cholmáin Ela
prose
prosimetrum
Irish account of Colmán Elo, patron saint of Lann Elo (Lynally, Co. Offaly)
Betha Choluim Chille
form undefined
Betha Ciaráin Saigre I
prose
First Irish Life of St Ciarán of Saigir (Seirkieran, Co. Offaly)
Betha Ciaráin Saigre II
prose
Second Irish Life of St Ciarán of Saigir (Seirkieran, Co. Offaly). According to Plummer (1925), it is based on a Latin Life now lost, which also served as an exemplar for a shorter text, Capgrave’s Life of Pieran.