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Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.

[ed.] [tr.] Walsh, Maura, and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Cummian’s letter De controversia Paschali: together with a related Irish computistical tract De ratione conputandi, Studies and Texts, 86, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1988.
CELT – De controversia Paschali, text (pp. 56–96): <link> CELT – De controversia Paschali, translation (pp. 57–95): <link>
[ed.] Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 4, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.  
First issued on June 9, 1830.
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432–444 Reprint of the Veterum epistolarum.
[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul (ed.), Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum qui in vii saeculi secunda parte floruerunt, opera omnia, Patrologia Latina, 87, Paris, 1860.
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cols 969–978 Text from Ussher.
[ed.] Ussher, James, Veterum epistolarum Hibernicarum sylloge, Dublin, Paris, 1632.
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24–35 [‘Ep. XI’] Editio princeps.

Secondary sources (select)

Kenney, James F., “Chapter III: The Irish church in the ‘Celtic’ period”, in: James F. Kenney, The sources for the early history of Ireland: an introduction and guide. Volume 1: ecclesiastical, Revised ed., 11, New York: Octagon, 1966. 156–287.
220–221 [id. 57.]