Ireland and the Celtic Church online

One of the fruits of a visit to Book Aid over the Christmas holiday was the following book on the history of the Celtic Church in Ireland. It contains 17 lectures on St. Patrick, St. Columba, Columbanus and the Pascal controversy by George T. Stokes. Stokes was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Dublin. The full text, being in the Public Domain, is now available for free download in PDF.

George T. Stokes [1843-1898], Ireland and the Celtic Church. A History of Ireland From St. Patrick to the English Conquest in 1172, 6th revised edn. London: SPCK, 1907. Hbk. pp.382. Click to download it here.

The book contained the following piece of emphemera:

As you can see, this indicates that the book was originally sent as a review copy. However, as many of the page-edges were still uncut, I would deduce that it was never read and that a review was not written. So, this is the first time that this copy has been fully opened since it was published 1907! Hopefully it will be read by many people now.

Perhaps someone could please add a link to the online version of the book to Prof. G.T. Stoke’s Wikipedia page?

Contents

Lecture 1 – The Ancient Celtic Church

Lecture 2 – St. Patrick

Lecture 3 – St. Patrick’s Mission

Lecture 4 – Tara and the Conversion of Ireland

Lecture 5 – St. Columba

Lecture 6 – Columba in Iona

Lecture 7 – Columbanus

Lecture 8 – The Paschal Controversy

Lecture 9 – Ireland and the East

Lecture 10 – The Social Life of the Eighth Century

Lecture 11 – Greek and Hebrew in Irish Monasteries

Lecture 12 – The Round – Towers of Ireland

Lecture 13 – The Danish Invasion of Ireland and the Pagan Crusade

Lecture 14 – The Danish Kingdom of Dublin

Lecture 15 – Brian Boru and the Triumph of Christianity

Lecture 16 -The See of Dublin and Union With England

Lecture 17 – St. Malachy and the See of Armagh