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Hervagius (Johannes) See: Johann Herwagen
- fl. 1522–1557
Printer and publisher in Basel.
Publisher and printer, son of the better known printer of the same name.
- d. 1915
- fl. c. 1537
great-grandfather of lawyer Pierre Hévin (d. 1692, the third of his name), possibly of Irish or Scottish ancestry. According to the latter’s biographer Poullain-Duparc, who had access to certain family records (anciens mémoires), Jean belonged to a noble Irish family and arrived in Arras in 1537, after which he married Marguerite Morieux.
- s. xx–xxi
Hibernicus Exsul See: Hibernicus Exul
Anonymous poet who refers to himself as an Irish ‘exile’ (Hibernicus exul) and composed a hexametrical poem on Charlemagne’s victory over Tassilo III, duke of Bavaria, in 787. The extent of his surviving work is unclear and his identity remains uncertain. Attempts have been made to identify him with Dungal of Saint-Denis (e.g. by Traube) or with Dicuil (Esposito).
Hickey (Anthony) See: Antony Hickey
- d. 1641
- Rome, Rome, St Isidore's College, Louvain, St Anthony's College, Cologne, Aachen
Irish Franciscan friar and theologian.
Hickey (Diarmuid) See: Antony Hickey
- s. xx–xxi
- s. xx–xxi
Higgins (Paul) See: Pól Ó hUiginn
- s. xx–xxi
Society founded on May 28, 1778, by a group of Highland gentlemen in London.
- s. xx–xxi
- fl. c.315/6–c.367/8
- Poitiers
theologian and bishop of Poitiers (el. 353), who campaigned against Arianism and has the reputation of being the first writer of Latin hymns, who composed a Liber hymnorum, although few texts are extant. He appears to have been held in high esteem in medieval Ireland.
- 1810–1900
Poet and historian, librarian of Queen’s College, Belfast, and author of Historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim (1873).
