[155] Ancient Laws of Ireland, III., pp. 33, 39.

[156] The relation between the Irish Church and the State is very ably yet concisely treated in a pamphlet by Rev. James F. Cassidy, St. Paul, Minnesota, entitled “The Irish Church as an Element in Irish Nationality” whose thesis is cited here.

[157] Joyce, P. W., op. cit. I., p. 382.

[158] Healy, John, op. cit. p. 94; Stokes, Whitley, Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, I., p. 236.

[159] Plummer, Charles, op. cit. I., p. xcviii.

[160] Joyce, P. W., op. cit. I., 365.

[161] Reeves, Wm., Adamnan, pp. 24, 143.

[162] Concannon, Helen, The Life of St. Columban, p. 145.

[163] Stokes, W., op. cit. p. 236; Reeves, Wm., op. cit. pp. 357–361.

[164] Reeves, Wm., ibid.; Healy, John, op. cit. pp. 94–96.