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Died 7th century. This Saint Colman was a professor at Cork. About 664, he wrote a prayer in verse (or 'lorica') seeking protection for the yellow plague that killed one-third of Ireland's population. He took his students to an island in the ocean to escape the pestilence. En route they chanted the prayer, which is believed to be the only extant writing from Finbarr's (f.d. July 4) school at Cork. The prayer was included in Kathleen Hoagland's 1000 Years of Irish Poetry published November 1999 (D'Arcy, Healy, Hoagland).


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