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- c.1575–1638?
Churchman and hagiographer who was born into an Old English family in Meath, studied at the Irish college at Douai and became a rector at the Irish college of Paris. He published a hagiographic collection entitled Florilegium insulae sanctorum (Paris, 1624).
Meuthi See: Saint Tathan
- s. xx–xxi
- 20 December 1858–11 October 1919
- d. 1987
- s. xvii
Irish scribe.
Apparently from míach ‘measure (bushel, sack) of corn / grain’; a mythological figure of Irish literature, a son of Dían Cécht and brother to Airmed
Archangel in Christianity and other Abrahamic religions.
A nomadic people in the Old Testament, who are said to have descended from Midian son of Abraham and inhabited the region of Midian in northwestern Arabia. Numbers 31 tells of a war in which the Israelites attacked and defeated the Midianites, killing all the men and boys.
- Brí Léith
one of the Túatha Dé Danann in early Irish literature
Midir of Brí Léith See: Midir
- s. xx–xxi
in Irish pseudo-historical tradition, father of the Milesian invaders of Ireland, hence ancestor of the Goídil
- s. xx–xxi
- s. xx–xxi
