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Books by John Bagnell Bury

John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian and philologist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He taught both at Trinity College Dublin and at the University of Cambridge, where he was Regius Professor of Modern History. He considered the disciple of history as science and wrote several books, including “St Patrick: The Life and World of Ireland’s Saint.”

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St. Patrick

John Bagnell Bury

In “St Patrick: The Life and World of Ireland’s Saint,” historian J. B. Bury looks at the sources existing on St. Patrick’s life and formulates a biographical account of St. Patrick. Bury brings St. Patrick’s missionary work in Ireland within the larger context of the time and outlines the lasting influence this had on the region.

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