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Bochanan (Seòras) See: George Buchanan
- 1974–2018
In Acallam na senórach, a son of the Dagda.
Bodener (William) See: William Bodinar
- fl. 18th century
- Mousehole
William Bodinar (previously misread as Bodener), a fisherman of Mousehole, known today for a (partially) bilingual English-Cornish letter, dated 1776, which he wrote to the lawyer and antiquary Daines Barrington and bears witness to a remnant of the Cornish language.
- s. xx–xxi
- d. 524
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, a Roman senator, statesman, philosopher and historian. His best known work may be De consolatione philosophiae, which he wrote in prison after running into conflict at the Ostrogothic court. Others include De topicis differentiis, De institutione arithmetica, De institutione musica and five theological treatises known collectively as the Opuscula sacra.
character, son of Nemed, mentioned briefly in Acallam na senórach as father or ancestor of the clann Bolccain meic Nemid (Stokes, l. 6337).
- Cell Chúle ... Kilcooley, Co. Roscommon
Bolcán, patron saint of Cell Chúle (present-day Kilcooley, Co. Roscommon)
- d. 1665
- s. xx–xxi
Bonaventura See: Giolla Brighde Ó hEodhusa
- s. xx–xxi
- 1554–1612
French humanist scholar, philologist and diplomat.
- d. 754
English monk and missionary.
