Canon Patrick Power (8 March 1862 – 16 October 1951), was a noted historian of the Catholic Church in Ireland. He was born on 8 March 1862, in Callaghane, Co. Waterford and educated at the Catholic University School and St. John's College, Waterford.
Power was ordained a priest and worked in Liverpool and Australia and was later attached to Waterford Cathedral. He was also a diocesan schools inspector and lecturer in archaeology at St Patrick's College, Maynooth between 1910 and 1931. He was Professor of Archaeology at University College Cork between 1915 and 1934, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. During his time in Cork he was awarded a D.Litt., by the National University of Ireland. He was also appointed a Canon of the Catholic Church.
He died 16 October 1951.
References
- ^ Canon Patrick Power A Talk by Msg. Michael G. Olden presented at Canon Patrick Power Seminar, WIT, 8 March 2012
- Twohig, Elizabeth. "Devoted to Archaeology: Professor (Canon) Patrick Power (1862–1951)". academia.edu.
- "(Rev.) Patrick Power". Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco). Archived from the original on 26 January 2005. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - Twohig, Elizabeth. "Devoted to Archaeology: Professor (Canon) Patrick Power (1862–1951)". Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society. 118: 109–133.
- Introduction to The Place-Names of Decies (2nd ed.) by Alfred O'Rahilly 1952
Works
- Places and Names of Decies (1907)
- Parochial History of Waterford and Lismore (1912; 1937)
- Lives of Declan and Mochuda (ITS 1914)
- Place Names and Antiquities of S. E. Cork (1917)
- Ardmore-Deaglain (1919)
- Prehistoric Ireland (1922)
- Early Christian Ireland (1925)
- The Ancient Topography of Fermoy (1931)
- A Bishop of the Penal Times (1932)
- A Short History of Co. Waterford (1933)
- The Cathedral and Priory of the Holy Trinity, Waterford (1942)
- He was also the editor of the Journal of Waterford and S. E. Ireland Archaeological Society.
External links
- Works by Patrick Power at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Patrick Power at the Internet Archive
- "Power, Rev. Patrick" . Thom's Irish Who's Who . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. 210 – via Wikisource.
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