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legendary Irish king, father of Cormac mac Airt

Art Mes Delmonn See: Mes Delmonn

  • 1593–1675
Limerick physician educated at Bordeaux and a Catholic with an interest in devotional literature. One of his better known patients was bishop James Ussher, who at one time appears to have lent him a manuscript of the so-called Kilkenny recension of Latin lives of Irish saints. A manuscript of transcripts by Thomas is still extant.
king of Munster
Eldest son of Áedán mac Gabráin
  • 1755–1833
Swiss monk, historian and librarian at St Gall.

Asaf See: Saint Asaph

  • fl. 6th century
  • St Asaph cathedral, Llanasa
Welsh saint, patron of St Asaph (W. Llanelwy) and its diocese as well as the nearby Llanasa (Flintshire). It has been suggested that Asaph was originally a local saint associated with Llanasa and that his assocation with Llanelwy and the diocese was a 12th-century innovation. A good part of his dossier is formed by traditions associated with St Kentigern from the 12th century onwards, notably Jocelin’s vita of the latter, according to which the church of the see of St Asaph was originally founded by Kentigern, who appointed Asaph, one of his disciples, as his successor.
  • c.1885–1917
Thomas Patrick Ashe (Tomás Pádraig Ághas, 1885-1917) was a member of the Gaelic League and Irish Republican Brotherhood, who volunteered in the Easter Rising.