Show chronicles I 1 AND LEGENDS I 1 OF IRELAND by NEIL MACDONALD st patrick in the annala of owes a n mens ni ensure re C of its fumo fame to the annals written ip in gaelic and of very ve ry great the earlier caruer portion ort ot of the history ts Is undoubtedly largely mythical and even in the more modern port part fable and fact anre so interlaced ter laced unit that it Is ei extremely dilli cult to 0 attain certainty lt it claims to bo be a narration of events front from the dawn of humanity down to 1108 1408 1 when tile tho rec fcc ord closed according to 0 o tile tho old chro chroniclers nil all tile tho heathen benthen kings who reigned in ire arc land until tile time almo of st patrick numbered they trace the origin of tile tho gaelic It telle people anterior Miter lor to tho the time of noah and write of events beyond tile tho range of hunihan knowledge with nil all the ho assurance assur anco tince of un doubling cor thich much Is written nebout st patrick in tile the A annals tinnis but hera again tile miraculous and improbable are so commingled with reality aliat it Is hard to determine what la Is truth find what Is fiction I 1 translate a portion of it bearing upon alio life of st patrick which Is doubtless in ili tile tho main correct in the alio fourth year of king reign st patrick id trick gilb lie of ireland was sent over 0 ve r by commission commis slon of pope lopa colestine to convert tile land from to Christinn christianity Ity but hee he did not land licce until after tho the death of celene tn in tile the first year of sixtus ills his successor in fit tile tho year A D Ard machu was edloyd and aundo th tho 0 metropolitan see dee of oc bast by st put rick some writers say eay that t it st lames es tile the apostle came to tills landl land others say that Pall adlus was sent hero before fore st patrick but lie he had not much success for lie converted conver tei otho faith but five parishes only which were in leinster and us as lie ha was returning to rome home lie died in scotland in the Arin annals frequent mention Is s rondo made of st keeran who was not only tho the founder of hut but was also I 1 the e patron saint of the men of 00 ri naught the annuls annals of assign the year COO 60 as tile the anto of st ll llorans erans birth and as that of his hill death so great was film reputation for sanctity a that in that part of Trel ireland tind even now couple its hla name with deity when they wl wish di to give force to nil an assertion |