A collection of essays to celebrate the 1,500th anniversary of his death.

Palladius, Prosper, and Leo the Great - mission and primatial authority, T.M. Charles-Edwards; the floruit of St Patrick - common and less common ground; St Patrick's "uillula" and the 5th-century occupation of Romano-British villas, K.R. Dark; St Patrick's missing years; the death-date of Patrick; the second obit of St Patrick in the "Annals of Boyle", K.L. Maund; the date 432; St Patrick and 5th-century Irish chronology - the kings, the saints; St Patrick senior and junior; "Acta Palladii" preserved in 7th-century Patrician hagiography?; Bishop Palladius's computus?; Auxilius, Iserninus, Secundinus and Benignus; Coroticus; verba militibus mittenda Corotici - an analysis of St Patrick's tract on the crimes of Coroticus; Picti apostatae(que); British missionary activity in Ireland; Emain Macha, Ard Macha;"Audite omnes amantes" - a hymn in Patrick's praise, Andy Orchard; St Patrick at his "First Synod"?; church-government and the spread of christianity in Ireland; St Patrick and the christianization of Dal Riata; the form of St Patrick's "Confessio" in the "Book of Armagh"; Muirchu's life of St Patrick from the "Book of Armagh"; St Patrick in the "Historia Brittonum" - three texts; St Patrick and Glastonbury Abbey "- nihil ex nihilo fit?", Lesley Abrams; St Patrick in an Anglo-Saxon sacramentary, Alicia Correa; the afterlife of "Liber angeli"; the dating of the tripartite life of St Patrick; St Patrick and the Scandinavians of Dublin; William of Malmesbury's "Vita S. Patricii" and his source - two lost lives of St Patrick?; the Armagh list of "coarbs of St Patrick"; St Patrick, the "Annales Cambriae", and St David.