Hibernian History Resources


Brenan, M.J., An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, Dublin & London, 1864.

Brenan, M.J. The War of the the Gaedhil with the Gaill or the Invasions of Ireland by the Danes and other Norsemen, Dublin & London 1965.

Bruce, Duncan A., The Mark of the Scots or Their Astonishing Contributions to History, Science, Democracy, Literature, and the Arts, NJ, 1996.

Bede, Ecclesiastical History of England, translated by Stevens, ed. J.B. Giles, London, 1859.

Cahill, Thomas, How the Irish Saved Civilization, New York, 1995.

Ebrards, J.H.A., History of the Culdee Missions, (translated from the German), 1886.

Fitzpatrick, Benedict, Ireland and the Making of Britain, New York & London, 1922.

Fitzpatrick, Benedict, Ireland and the Foundations of Europe, New York & London, 1927.

Gougaud, Dom, Louis, Gaelic Pioneers of Christianity: The Work and Influence of Irish Monks and Saints in Continental Europe, Dublin,1923.

Healy, John, Insula Sanctorum Et Doctorum or Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars, Dublin 1912.

Hyde, Douglas, A Literary History of Ireland From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, London & New York, 1899.

Joyce, P.W., A Social History of Ancient Ireland, (in 2 volumes) Dublin, 1920.

Jamieson, John, An Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, Edinburgh, 1811.

Kenney, James, F., The Sources for the Early History of Ireland 
Ireland: Ecclesiastical, Dublin, 1868.  

Lawford, H.J., Life of Malachy by Bernard of Clairvaux, New York, 1920.

Life of St. Patrick, (700 A.D. preserved in the Book of Armagh.

Lanigan, John,  An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, Dublin, 1829. 

Metlake, George, Life and Writings of Saint Columban, Philadelphia, 1914.

O'Donavan, Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Master, Edited by J. Donovan, Dublin, 1851. 

O'Curry, Eugene, On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish (in 3 Volumes) New York, 1971.

Stokes, G.T.,  Ireland and the Celtic Church: A History of Ireland from St. Patrick to the Norman Conquest in 1172, London, 1907. 

Stokes, Margaret, Six Months in the Apennines or a Pilgrimage in Search of Vestiges of Irish Saints in Italy, London, 1892.

Stubbs, W.M., How Europe was won to Christianity, New York, 1913.

Wylie, J.A., History of the Scottish Nation, Edinburgh, 1887.

Zimmer, H., The Irish Element in Medieval Culture, (trans. from German), New York, 1891.


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