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Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources ‘Converting the Isles’ Bibliography IRELAND Primary Sources (collections) ― L. Bieler, ed. and trans., The Patrician Texts in the Book of Armagh, Scriptores Latini Hiberniae 10 (1979) ― J. Carey trans., King of Mysteries. Early Irish Religious Writings (2000) ― J. Gwynn, ed., Liber ArDmachanus: The Book of Armagh (1913) [Also available online: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924091179337] ― M. Herbert & M. McNamara, trans., Irish Biblical Apocrypha. SelecteD Texts in Translation (1989) (inDiviDual texts) ― Adomnán of Iona, Vita Sancti Columbæ, Adomnan's Life of Columba, ed. A.O. and M.O. Anderson (1961) and trans. R. Sharpe, Life of St Columba (1995) ― L. Bieler & J. Carney, eds, ‘The Lambeth Commentary’, Ériu 23 (1972), 1-55 ― J. Carney, ed. & trans., The Poems of Blathmac Son of Cú Brettan, Together with the Irish Gospel of Thomas anD a Poem on the Virgin Mary, Irish Texts Society 47 (1964) ― R. E. 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