Dictionary definition: Áedán mac Gabráin

Encyclopedia entry: Colum Cille
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      572 words ... ... poetic tradition portrayed Colum Cille as a permanent exile ... that this was not so. Colum Cille was never cut off from ... Ainmerech may have helped Colum Cille at the meeting of the ... xC1;edán mac Gabráin , king of ...

Encyclopedia entry: Áedán mac Gabráin
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      337 words ...Áedán mac Gabráin (d. c .606), king of Dál Riata, is ... ambitions. Áedán is closely associated with St Colum Cille at the meeting of kings at Druim Cett and in the story recounted ...

Encyclopedia entry: Colum Cille (Columba)
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;      421 words ...Colum Cille [Columba] (?521–597 ... baptized Crimthann and given the name Colum Cille (‘dove of the church ... poem Amra Choluim Cille ( Eulogy of Colum Cille ) was written shortly after his death ...

Dictionary definition: Colum Cille, St
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations;      248 words ...Colum Cille, St ?521–597 1. To every cow her calf, to every book its copy.traditionally attributed

Dictionary definition: Dál Riada
A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology;      477 words ... ... now north Strathclyde (until 1974, Argyllshire), led by Áedán mac Gabráin , who was baptized by and associated with St Colum Cille . The Irish invaders, who established a capital at Dunadd , brought with them Gaelic ...

Encyclopedia entry: Druim Cett
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      460 words ... ... xC1;edán mac Gabráin , king of ... references in his Life of St Colum Cille that it was an important event, attended also by Colum Cille, a kinsman of Á ... of Kells and coarb of Colum Cille, seems to have looked ...

Encyclopedia entry: hagiography
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      700+ words ... ... these Adomnán 's Life of St Colum Cille , written in or soon after 697, is ... Benedict, Adomnán depicts Colum Cille as an idealized abbot in a style that ... perhaps the long and very full Life of St Colum Cille by Manus O'Donnell , compiled from ...