Dear Dom Anselm,
I haven't seen any responses posted to your query and I do not know the
hymn you refer to. But perhaps something in the ensuing will help.
I take it that the saint you are referring to is the contemporary of St
Patrick whose name is also given as Mac(c)Cairthinn, and who is reputed as
first bishop of Clogher. He is mentioned in the Tripartite Life of Patrick
as having been given charge over Clogher by Patrick, who also purportedly
gave him the famous silver book-shrine, Domnach-Airgit. The Life also
mentions MacC as one of 24 persons who were in orders with St Patrick.
According to Kenney, _Sources for the Early History of Ireland:
Ecclesiastical_, the few Lives of disciples and companions of Patrick
which survive are late and of small value. Fragments of a Life of
MacCairthinn do survive and were incorporated in a Register of Clogher
compiled in the early 16C. Shortly after, an office for MacCairthinn was
added, of which only the hymn and the lesson are extant. I suspect this
may be the hymn you are enquiring about.
If I have the right saint, his hymn is one of the items edited by the
Irish scholar Lawlor for the Louth Archaeological Journal, vol 4, # 3. (I
have this reference from his collaborative article with Armstrong on the
Domnach Airgid in Proceedings of the R.I.A. 34C (1917-19), p. 117.) If I
have the wrong saint, I do hope someone else will steer you in a more
useful direction.
Best wishes,
Martin Howley,
Humanities Librarian,
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Monastery Library wrote:
> Can any one tell me what is referred to by the *Hymn of Macartin* ? I think
> it is Irish, or in Irish
[SNIP]
> Is there a text anywhere? Where else can I ask?
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