Bibliography

John
Colgan
d. 15 January 1658

5 publications between 1645 and 1997 indexed
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Works authored

Colgan, John, Trias thaumaturga, reprint ed., Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Edmund Burke, 1997.  
comments: Modern reprint with an introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain
comments: Modern reprint with an introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain
Colgan, John, Acta sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiæ seu Hiberniæ, sanctorum insulæ, facsimile ed., Irish Manuscripts Commission, Reflex Facsimiles, 5, Dublin: Ordnance Survey, 1948.
Colgan, John, Triadis Thaumaturgæ seu divorum Patricii, Columbæ et Brigidæ, trium veteris et maioris Scotiæ, seu Hiberniæ sanctorum insulae communium patronorum acta, Louvain: apud Cornelium Coenestenium, 1647.  
comments: The title page reads in full (normalised spellng): Triadis Thaumaturgæ, seu divorum Patricii, Columbæ, et Brigidæ, trium veteris et majoris Scotiæ, seu Hiberniæ, Sanctorum insulæ, communium patronorum acta, a variis, iisque pervetustis ac Sanctis, authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in conventu F.F. Minor. Hibernor, Stritior, Observ., Lovanii, S. Theologiæ Lectoris Jubilati, ex variis bibliothecis collecta, scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus appendicibus aucta; complectitur tomus secundus sacrarum ejusdem insulæ antiquitatum, nunc primum in lucem prodiens.
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comments: The title page reads in full (normalised spellng): Triadis Thaumaturgæ, seu divorum Patricii, Columbæ, et Brigidæ, trium veteris et majoris Scotiæ, seu Hiberniæ, Sanctorum insulæ, communium patronorum acta, a variis, iisque pervetustis ac Sanctis, authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in conventu F.F. Minor. Hibernor, Stritior, Observ., Lovanii, S. Theologiæ Lectoris Jubilati, ex variis bibliothecis collecta, scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus appendicibus aucta; complectitur tomus secundus sacrarum ejusdem insulæ antiquitatum, nunc primum in lucem prodiens.
Colgan, John, Acta sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiæ seu Hiberniæ, sanctorum insulæ, Louvain: Everard De Witte, 1645.
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Contributions to journals

Colgan, John, “Two early modern descriptions of Navan: 1. John Colgan, c.1592–1658”, Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group 1 (1986): 22.

About the author

Sharpe, Richard, “Génair Pátraicc: Old Irish between print and manuscript, 1647–1853”, Ériu 68 (2018): 1–28..
Cunningham, Bernadette, “John Colgan as historian”, in: Raymond Gillespie, and Ruairí Ó hUiginn (eds), Irish Europe, 1600-1650: writing and learning, 5, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 121–134..
Harris, Jason, and Emma Nic Cárthaigh, “Romancing the bards: early-modern Latin translations of Irish poetry”, Renæssanceforum 6 (2010): 149–165..
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Cunningham, Bernadette, “Seventeenth-century readers of Foras feasa ar Éirinn: Ó Cléirigh, Colgan and Kearney”, in: Pádraig Ó Riain (ed.), Geoffrey Keating’s Foras feasa ar Éirinn: reassessments, 19, London: Irish Texts Society, 2008. 39–51..
OʼDonnell, Terence [ed.], Father John Colgan, O.F.M., 1592–1658: essays in commemoration of the third centenary of his death, Dublin: Assisi, 1959..
Mooney, Canice, “Father John Colgan, O.F.M., his work and times and literary milieu”, in: Terence OʼDonnell [ed.], Father John Colgan, O.F.M., 1592–1658: essays in commemoration of the third centenary of his death, Dublin: Assisi, 1959. 7–40..
Bieler, Ludwig, “John Colgan as editor”, Franciscan Studies 8 (1948): 1–24..
Hull, Vernam, “Keating, Colgan and the Saltair na rann”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 16 (1927): 453–457..
Mac Donnell, Charles P., “Notice of some of the Lives which seem to have been ready, or in preparation, for the continuation of the ‘Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ,’ at the death of Colgan”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 7 (1857–1861): 371–375..
Mac Donnell, Charles P., “On the MSS. of John Colgan, preserved at St. Isidore's, Rome”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 6 (June 12th, 1854, 1853–1857): 95–103..
Reeves, William, “Irish library no. 1: Colgan's works”, Ulster Journal of Archaeology (first series) 1 (1853): 295–302..
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