The Legends of Saint Patrick (Forgotten Books)

Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius, Irish: Naomh Padraig) was a Roman Britain-born Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. When he was about sixteen he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. He entered the church, as his father and grandfather had before him, becoming a deacon and a bishop. He later returned to Ireland as a missionary in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he worked and no link can be made between Patrick and any church. By the eighth century he had become the patron saint of Ireland. The Irish monastery system evolved after the time of Patrick and the Irish church did not develop the diocesan model that Patrick and the other early missionaries had tried to establish. (Quote from wikipedia.org)

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Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814 - 1902)
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (10 January 1814-20 January 1902) was an Irish poet and critic.

He was born at Curragh Chase, Kilcornan, County Limerick, the third son of Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt (1788-1846) and younger brother to Stephen De Vere. In 1832 his father dropped the final name by royal licence. Sir Aubrey was himself a poet. Wordsworth called his sonnets the most perfect of the age. These and his drama, Mary Tudor, were published by his son in 1875 and 1884. Aubrey Thomas was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and in his twenty-eighth year published The Waldenses, which he followed up in the next year by The Search after Proserpine. Thenceforward he was continually engaged, till his death in 1902, in the production of poetry and criticism.

His best-known works are: in verse, The Sisters (1861);