Journey through a millennium and a half of Limerick history with scholars and scribes, poets and preachers, martyrs and missionaries, and founders of churches and religious communities.
From early Ireland to the present day, including St Íte, foster mother of the saints; Gille, Limerick’s first bishop and the medieval Askeaton Madonna to Terence Albert O’Brien, bishop of Emly; Sikh scholar Max Arthur MacAuliffe and Sr Mary Clare Whitty, Anglican nun, martyred in Korea. With contributions from academics, archaeologists, archivists, poets, pastors and theologians, including an introduction from Bishop Brendan Leahy, this fascinating collection remembers the lives of these remarkable individuals.
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