Books by D. R. Howlett
The Book of Letters of Saint Patrick The Bishop
by D. R. Howlett
Saint Patrick lived more or less in the fifth century. He may have been born in the fourth, but no dates are known for certain. The most extraordinary thing about him is that there are two genuine documents by him; these are really remarkable, because they are the only documents to have survived at all from that century in Ireland
Interviews where books by D. R. Howlett were recommended
The best books on Early Irish History, recommended by Hector McDonnell
One of Ireland’s best-known contemporary painters discusses five books on early Irish history and explains that the myriad of oddly named and often eccentric Irish saints are in fact mythical ancestors or local gods
