Patrick: The Pilgrim Apostle of Ireland

Who was St Patrick? In the modern era his name still carries the aura of legend — yet the truths of his life remain unknown to most readers. Now, in this new work of biographical reconstruction, Máire B. de Paor brings us as close as possible to the man behind the myth. Through a combination of painstaking research and a close reading of Patrick’s two surviving works — the Confessio and the Epistola, their texts included in full in this edition — de Paor reveals a man at once poet and pilgrim, artist and apostle.