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 County Waterford ( ga, Contae Phort Láirge) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Munster and is part of the South-East Region. It is named after the city of Waterford. Waterford City and County Council is the local authority for t ...

and educated at the

Catholic University School Catholic University School ''(C.U.S.)'' is a private (voluntary) secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland. The school was founded in 1867 by Bartholomew Woodlock as a preparatory school for the Catholic University of Ireland, the predeces ...

and

St. John's College, Waterford St John's College (or St John's Seminary) was a Roman Catholic seminary founded in 1807 for the diocese of Waterford and Lismore. Foundation The College was founded by Bishop John Power DD. It was one of many seminaries founded in Ireland fo ...

.Canon Patrick Power A Talk
by Msg. Michael G. Olden presented at Canon Patrick Power Seminar, WIT, 8 March 2012 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 St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth ( ga, Coláiste Naoimh Phádraig, Maigh Nuad), is the "National Seminary for Ireland" (a Roman Catholic college), and a pontifical university, located in the town of Maynooth, from Dublin, Ireland ...

between 1910 and 1931. He was Professor of Archaeology at

University College Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one ...

(UCC) between 1915 and 1934, and a member of the

Royal Irish Academy The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier learned society and one its leading cultural i ...

. During his time in Cork he was awarded a D.Litt., by the

National University of Ireland The National University of Ireland (NUI) ( ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann) is a federal university system of ''constituent universities'' (previously called '' constituent colleges'') and ''recognised colleges'' set up under the Irish Universit ...

. He was also appointed a Canon of the Catholic Church. He died 16 October 1951.

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The Place-Names of Decies (2nd ed.)
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Alfred O'Rahilly Alfred O'Rahilly, KSG (1 October 1884 – 1 August 1969) was an academic with controversial views on both electromagnetism and religion. He briefly served in politics, as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Cork City, and was later the president of Univer ...

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''.

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