Patrick Power (historian)

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.^[1]

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,^[2]^[3] 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.^[4]

He died 16 October 1951.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b 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.